GPS Team Challenge - Mandurah Mob (WA, Australia)

Fun start to the session when I discovered that I had broken my boom head in my stack 18/12, had sailed five sessions that way wondering why it felt all sloppy? glad I found it before it finished my handy work.

Bit of faffing around settting up a boom I haven't used for a couple of years.

Wind was forecast to be coming in solid later so I went out about 2pm so as not to get my freckle handed to me.

Was quite nice out though holey and with quite a lot more junky chop than normal.

Worked my way up wind as much as I could be bothered and sent it on a naughty, took a bit to get going but once hooked in I was reasonbly well powered, bit of fun trying to pick a line over the junk to minimise the air time, ended up sailing past the chanel marker before sending it up wind a bit.

Got a bit hairy thereafter as I gumbied (APU) the gybe and fell in when I looked around there was a dirty great cruiser bearing down on me, try as I might there was not enough wind to get me up on the board even with my digestive tract operating like a JATO. The cruiser missed me by about 20m, ignorant shit didn't even slow down. Elmo's curse on them!

After that I was a bit rattled so just did shorter runs, got some nice speed.

Board and sail felt realy weell balanced today for the conditions, well happy

waricle (19590km):

3 days ago

1 categories

Coodanup, WA, AU CA66 LRB 5.6 Fangy22 Sunny, fresh breeze, nice tide. Sailed with Gloria after fiddling and farting about. Still a bit worn out after the Albany drive. Just about perfect conditions fora nice afternoon session. Good fun.

Decrepit (54956km):

3 days ago

A bit of TOW.

Sort of rigged to forecast. 5.7speed on the 60cm new board. Tried a 20cm@40-60 first, but it felt a bit wishywashy, not enough traction. so changed to the 22@40-60, this felt much more comfortable.

But too choppy for me to get any speed.

(Puf-) fin (15796km):

3 days ago