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Coodanup, WA, AU

Low low low low, had a great sail but cut short by Christmas work do,    just the one for me....

Liptons & Point Grey, Ross said The wind hadnt yet arrived while it was really windy at Liptons so I decided to stay at Liptons, coz I really wanted to check Point Grey out.  Wind gauge was reading 15 to 24kts, so sailed to Point Grey, yes the run across was pretty wild, (Take it easy they say, have you every tried to take it easy on a Bucking Bull?) Anyway Point Grey revealed itself to be a weed desert, with no flat water so definitely not worth the nightmare ride across.  Liptons wasnt much better, only 100m of flat water..  Speed Board = Nude Streaker 54/80, TR18 5.9m Pepfoil hybrid 18cm. Have to admit the speed board is not a lot of fun unless you have long stretches of flat water, so not enjoying riding it at the moment, and also so taxing on the aging 64yo body.  I was at least able to confirm that Point Grey is not worth the effort, so no more wondering whether my beloved Point Grey is an unused Speedsailing Nirvana NUH, its shit

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A great day at Coodanup. Severn Mach 2 6.2 CA 92L Tribal delta 18cm. 

Patrik 100, NP RSR E-XV 6.5m, JP weed 31cm.

Today was... a great way to wash the work out of my system.

Novara, at it's lumpy best, very short sharp chop very close together with an ample supply of breeze.

Worked my way up around half way up Cox Bay went to try a naughty but woossed out 3/4 way into it as it was getting a wee bit hairy.

Very surprised with the speed again, didn't think I'd get anywhere near it.

Good fun, next time I'll shove some coal up my freckle and make some diamonds at the same time.

Good times

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     Yeees , a fun day out at coods , among the weed thats left , just as well the tyde was down a bit . 
This time I had the right sail , so I thoght and things went well . Also didn't get attacked by crabs ,,, a win , forsure .

I dont know what Fangy was complaining about ,,, ??          A top ,,, day .

   Had the old wintec 52 wide , 5.8 ka kon , El50-17cm weed . 

So mainly all wins today, except the wind didn't pick up as expected, and I didn't get to use the 48cm board.

However, I'm getting more and more used to the new 60cm board. Tried the 20cm fangised delta @55 on it today.

Seems like a good compromise between upwind ability and downwind speed, but I still spun out a couple of times.

My biggest problem with it is finding the back strap coming out of a well powered gybe. I had 2 really nice carves, coming in at speed, front foot slipped in without thinking about it,  but back foot tripped on the rear strap, and board went scudding away down wind.. More practise needed.

Had the mast track right back, and it was easy to trim entry behind the front foot, felt nice stable and fast..

Had a good comparrison for Daffy of the Garmin 255 watch and my esp armband, results look good to me.

So all in all a succesful satisfying day, with a great mob of sailors. Sunny and warm and I had no crab encounters.

But too buggered to sail today. The watch said my average HR was 120 and a new Max HR over 150, Recover time 96 hours, don't think that's going to happen!