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| Average | 24.37 | 21.81 | 4.57 | 16.11 | 15.19 | 23.40 | ||||||||||||
Flex (15736km):  Melville Beach, WA, AU. Another epic session with no one else out. Slightly different to what Jan (DIY GPS Man) is reporting from Belgium today with 150 Km/hr winds forecast so might see some interesting posts from that neck of the woods later | ||||||||||||||||||
| Windxtasy (13853km): Albany, WA, AU Sonic 85 6.2K, 18 tribal delta then 22FF 14 - 18 kn, first half session, 14 - 16 kn second half Sunny, clear blue sky, 25 degrees. So much better than the heatwave in Perth. I was very tired after yesterday's sailing and really felt like a nap after lunch, but Morts said he was going to be at Harding Rd at 1pm so I headed down around then also. Wind was reading 14 - 18 kn slightly S of E. Tide was high, over the weedbank but predicted to drop. Ronnie and Morts headed out but I took my time rigging because I wanted the tide to drop a bit. Before he headed out Ronnie said to me "I want a PB from you today!" I thought that wind would be good for an hour, and set out with an hour in mind. I spent some time adjusting my harness lines for comfort and then thought I would try some gybes to see if I could gybe that sail in that wind for an hour or not. I found I kept sliding downwind so I came in and changed to a bigger fin, which made it possible to stay/get upwind and make the 50m proximity of the gybes. I also discovered my outhaul was very loose so I fixed that. Back to the alphas. I found I was doing some relatively fast ones now that I could make the proximity, and soon I had a PB of high 18's so I kept trying for better and was so delighted to suddenly get a 19.8! It was a fully planing gybe and I was very happy with the smooth rig flip and transition. Big improvement! For so long my goal has been a 20 kn alpha, so encouraged, I set off again, but the wind had dropped quite suddenly and the speed just wasn't there any more. Giving up on alphas I set off across the bay but I could see there wasn't enough wind for a decent hour so I decided to have a break. So did Morts. Ronnie had long gone to join his friend out in the open ocean. We stood around and chatted for a while and told Evets the bad news that he had missed the best wind. Meanwhile the tide was dropping and the water was getting flatter, so after a break we headed out again. I scored some more alphas that would have been PBs last week, including another 19+ but could not improve on the 19.8. My five best alphas today would have all been PBs. 19.828, 19.034, 18.869, 18.811, 18.795 Thanks Jeremy, Stve and Ronnie for the encouragement. I am very happy to be close to 20 kn at last, and especially since the water wasn't particularly flat. Crosswind speed was only about 24 kn. Ronnie will be pleased. BTW you got the best of the wind, mate. Edit: looked at the track with realspeed tonight. seven of the alphas would have been PBs. The top alpha had a Max speed of 23.248 and min of 8.125. I am pretty happy with an average of 19.8 - that is only a drop of 3.4 kn from the peak speed. None of the alphas had any speed exceeding 23.4 knots. Clearly to improve I need to work on my crosswind speed!
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