Valentine, NSW, AU in a very gusty W, WSW, then W again. First time using GPSTC, so hopefully everything worked.... 

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Jimmy's beach, nsw. Patrik 120, Ezzy 6.5, 30 weed - The Wedding Crasher Session. It was a funny spring day, thinking there'd be no sailing as there was no Seabreeze, I tried working on gear and movies. Then the big surfboard blew off the racks and suffered some holes. There's no good swell or sandbanks for surfing and I got no resin right now so not fixing it, I thought about windsurfing instead. Intending to try the flatwater beach side I thought better of it when I saw Jimmy's wasn't too choppy. It was rampy. Best fun I've had in chop so far I think. 

There was a wedding on the beach. Behind the bride and groom was a windsurfer, gybes, tacks and shaka hands as he blasted by. I'm not sure if they were hooting as they just tied the knot or hooting at the lone flash mob windsurf display
I'm not sure if they appreciated it or not. I'm not worried though, get married on Jimmy's get windsurfer photo bombed what a ripper Saturday warm westerly session. 

Marmong Point, NSW, AU

At last...back in my stomping ground. Very good to see my old mates while saying goodbye to the ones in the north.  The usual gusty westerly...up and down like a yo yo but who is that fussy. Plenty os sunshine while the water isn't all that warm but not icey either. 

Enjoyed my new Hyperlite sail. It is quite different from the Foilglide sails. More to evaluate yet but all's positiv so far.

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 10-25kts WNW then 20-30kts ( 25-30kts down the bottom ) W  level 0.23-25m Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU

 5.5m Mach 2 - RS2 ( 90ltres) - 22cma Atomic for a short time then

5m Mach 2 - RS1 ( 80ltres) - 16.5cms FF ( cutdown 22)

 yeehaa! Finally,  I scored some strong consistent wind all the way down the nm.. 

I thought " if I don't get smashed I'm going to have some decent stats.. 

 2 sec is my best since LG 2022 and my 4th best 2 sec. Nm is my 2nd best..

 Board Pb for both.

 The FF may not be as fast as the Atomics but I trust it in small chop and it's more than fast enough for me..

 Wasted most of my energy rigging today. I wasn't expecting much more than 15-20kts and decided to do a Mobsy and rig the 5.5m on the 111ltre board..by the time I'd done that it had kicked in so I took the 90ltre. 

 I was hoping for some laid back sailing to practise gybes but it was super strong and tiring down the bottom . I decided to come and change down.

By the time I had the new combo ready I was worried there wasn't enough . I managed to score strong wind at the start and even stronger at the bottom.

Blowing a solid 25-30kts W as I finished the nm.

It was so strong I decided to wait for it to ease a bit.

 The strong stuff picked the board up and it did a 360 and then the whole kit got ripped out of my hands and thrown 5m downwind..

I had a long walk out to water deep enough to start.

 I was pretty buggered but the conditions were A1 with the 16.5cm fin allowing me to go everywhere and super strong wind and flatwater. I didn't get any other decent runs so after a while I went in..ZZZ but buzzing..

 Just me then Mike from Peely . Local guy from 7th and later shift was Mick H and Bruce.