Well done Macka on ther PB's hope no damage done with the bump.

Good one guys.

Well done on the PB's Macka!

I opted for a sneaky wave sail rather than speed today

Good to see Safety Bay reaped some benefits for you guys, lao you should have seen the strip just before sunset it was brilliant, except for the fact Slowy made me look slow

Great to see so many out 

Scored some great waves up north, well powered on my 4.5, words can't express how stoked I am right now 

Congrats on all the PB's

Well done Macka and Jeff, stoked that SB turned it on for you today.

Nice speeds Mark, you got me on the mile, but I just pipped you on the alpha, I think that's a first

I thought you were having a day off sailing today Mark?

GRRRRRRRR!!!!! What a frustrating day for me! Two weeks ago when the winds were light and looked like staying that way for weeks I arranged to take my daughter and four of her friends windsurfing. This afternoon. With that forecast.   But there was no other time we could do it.  So I unload all my gear out of my car to fit the five girls in, and put in the kid's fins, sail and mast. Tie the kids board on the roof. It looks like there will be no wind at all despite the forecast but we head off anyway. They're beginners and we needed to hire 2 boards for the others so we head to Pelican Point. By the time we were driving along Riverside Drive there were whitecaps everywhere. It looked great! (For me, but I wasn't going to be sailing ) No parking at Peli of course so we have to park down the road quite a way. We unload the gear and go to rig the kids's sail only to discover I have left the boom at home.  I guess we'll have to rent an extra set of gear. So we repack all the gear into the car, tie the board back on the roof and head over to hire 3 boards. Sean was delightful and looked after us very well (2 and 2.6m sails!). The girls struggled a bit in the strong wind but mostly made progress and had fun. Snides popped in from time to time and helped me round up the girls when they strayed too far. The wind looked awesome. Everyone was zipping in and out and I felt really left out. It was torture to just watch. Tacking a 2.6m sail back to the windforce school just didn't do it for me. I had friends there I could have borrowed some gear from but the girls were cold and wet so I thought I'd let them change, take them home and then go sail myself... not realising that it would take them 40 minutes to get changed! (That would have been long enough for me to get my fix of sailing! )Just what there is to do in the Peli Point changeroom that takes 40 minutes I cannot guess. I've been in there. It's not like they have hot showers and mirrors and hairdryers. So EVENTUALLY I take all the girls home only to find one has left her bag in the car, so back to her place a second time. Unload Vienna's gear, find a dry wetsuit and load my gear back in. I head down to Melville but by the time I get there  the wind has just dropped. A few people are still planing but just as many are slogging. I decided not to bother rigging up and sailing. I did have a nice chat with some of my buddies which settled me down, and Melville is a lovely place to be in the evening. When I was driving home I realised I hadn't packed my box of fins and extensions into the carso it's a good thing I didn't decide to rig up!

Poor Sean was very busy and it didn't look like he was going to get out either. I feel your pain mate. I hope you did get to sail.

The girls had a good time and we have agreed to take them windsurfing again in two weeks time. Have to encourage more girls in the sport. I think there should be discounts for females to help attract them. This time we have agreed that if it's windy I sail. If it's light, they sail.

Congratulations on the PB's Patrick, and Jeff too. Whoo Hoo!

And Obelix, your gybing must really be coming along! I must work on mine.

Couldn't resist when the boys seemed up for a session, Windxtasy Didn't stay till dark though.

Sorry you had a distressing day. Huey will allocate you wind Karma points.

Woohoo, Hardpole, well done on joining the 35+ club now in the top 8 for WA Grand masters for 5x10 and it looks like you will have a contributing score for 2s! for the month. A first I think?

Great to see you and Macka with a 1 knot + increase in the speed categories. You guys need to get an adjustable outhaul now.

Pointman you are ALPHAMAN but I am MILEMAN. Great back up. Well done on your strategic babysitting arrangement.

Woohoo! Scarrgo. 30+ Knew you would get it!

Well done Scarrgo, glad you found time for some sailing

Oh Sean, you did get out, and for more than an hour too! Whoo hoo! 30 knots, and all those PB's. Well done. That's a great effort especially considering the chop.

It was nice to catch up with you again this afternoon.

well Anita i couldn't resist that sail as soon as justin's lessons were finished i was gone but i'm glad all the girls had a good time it was good there wasn't many kiters down there today, although there were ones doing some very stupid stuff one jumped straight over one of our learners and another jumped straight in front of me on one of my 30 knot runs  (as you can probably tell i'm pretty chuffed)

looking forward to helping you again as for the discount you'd have to talk to steven ( SOMEPUNK ) but i doubt you get anything for too reasons, one the school struggles as it is, it's really there to introduce people to the sport and most of the funds just go to running it and secondly steven likes his employee's to be focused and free from as many distractions as possible . anyway the pricing for the girls today was discounted from our normal beginner price, it's normaly $20 where as its $15 for kids and students

congrats everyone else on your pb's too looks like it was an awesome day all round

somthing else i found interesting was i saw a bit of comotion going on near the eastern most spit post off peli point involving the water police and a number of other small boats over the hour or so that i was out i notice that the barge one boat had been towing had sunk and a fender was marking it's position in the channel when i went a bit closer to investigate i was told to stay well away as a barge of fireworks had just sunk

Well done on the pbs everyone, sorry to hear you missed out Annita. Please let us all know when the next session of teaching is due: we had great fun

Scarrgo, congratulations it looks to me that you almost got 31 !  sounds like you had a great day.

Very glad I went to SB ! Greg, thanks for the suggestion !  

yeh 1 second peak on the gps was 31.108 so shame missed out on a 31 but i'm still chuffed to bits with that 30 but i can't believe people get to 40 knots i've noticed that as you go faster the chop seems to get bigger even if it's just the 10cms over the peli point bank

Sean, I was joking about the discount. I know it's a good deal as it is.

Evets, Saturday week should be a ripper.

Hey Anita, Slugger here or Simon.

Sounds like you had one of my days .

It was just to answer your question from Friday for 30 knot alarm. it is under ALERT and can be set to 30 KTS under OVER SPEED, remember to turn on Buzzer.

Good luck, listen for that beep and then PARTY!!!!!

Cheers Simon.

Congrats Hardpole, scarrgo and Obelix on the PBs and commiserations Windxtasy

Great team day out and great story tellling. I like sitting at this bar sharing yarns and telling tall tales.

Congrats to all and commiserations to the rest.

Great sesh guys

obi one tobi  - Im worried you are still at the bar at 7am , I hope that doesnt indicate some sort of issue ;0

Also wanted to say thanks for the LOC movie you made.

Awesome guys some awesome speeds there! Safety bay 30 Mark Woohoo!!!

Pic from yesterday:

That's more like it Nebbian! Not like that pic Snides posted a few weeks back!

Thanks for the feedback Slugger.

What's news on the toe, Jake?

Been too busy with work this past week to get down to skg Anita, we'll see this week!