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Needed a break from the eastuary, so rigged my wife up to go out here, then followed.

Had another try of the old Avalon 5.5, thought I'd try some alphas coming in to the lagoon. Forgot this sail's cams are a bit tight and doesn't rotate easily, having to pump it around, didn't do my alphas any good, also the wind was a bit southerly, by the time I was in smooth water, the wind was fluky. Think alphas are possible here, but with better wind and easier gubing sail.

Finally craked the 30 in the open ocean, did 2 downwind runs home, 30 in both, also pleased I managed a 18.97 alpha in the open ocean

You can see the swim I had at the end of the last downwinder, it got a bit exciting at the end!

First Session Back after 6 months of living on a 118m long tin can touring some of the glorious middle east, africa, india and a south east asian port to finish it off

sail too big, board too big, fin too big and hardies really stinks at the moment

RSRacing 6.7, isonic 101, 40 cm choco weedy

work tomorrow then begins the summer of speed for me

results are off KA72, got a new laptop and havn't registered realspeed yet

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Great Sail, went for hr firtst and all set up wrong by the 3rd stop and re-tuning, gave up and went for Alphas, got a string of 23's and the one 24, I know which gybe that was and the 25 kt Alpha is a long way off.  Manta 64, Vapor 6m, LE Weed 35cm.

JPSS 100L, NP RS4 6.7m, JP Freeride weed 36cm + couple of runs on JP Speed 54 & Elmo weed 24cm 45º.

Yyyyyeeeeaaahhhhaaarrrggghhhh, cleaning some brown stains out of the undies tonight

I don't often say this, well in reality I don't think I've ever said this and I feel almost dirty saying......Hhhmmmmm I think I shoulda rigged a bit smaller.

The breeze looked pretty good when we were rigging up but after yesterday having it drop out wasn't going to go small, went out with all good intentions of completing an hour, the first run gave us an indication of what we were in for and it just kept on picking up from there.

Was getting stood up quite a lot with the 6.7 and the 36cm weedy was having the board out of the water a fair bit, couple of nice flatish?? bits through death valley where it was a case of close your eyes and say a few quick prayers "...and though I sail through the valley of death I shall fear no weed patchs" like f*ck!!! I was shitting myself waiting to test my impact resistance, thankfully it didn't happen.

Persevered with overhand grip on gybes but sail kept getting blown out of my hands, eventualy one gybe agravated my poor wounded groin which made us pull up short on hour (was crap anyway)

Decided to try out speed board with 24cm fin, was pretty happy with the fin not spinning but definately too small as the flat spot had dissapeared and became a bit lively.

Only damage today was a nice fin cut on the side of my foot which I now have to go and attack with a scrubbing brush and dissinfectant.

Good fun Sailing with Hardz Yes you were right and I amd a dickhead for rigging the 6.7m

Bendyman 35.062 Doppler on the SS, Game on

Was great seeing Adam back on the water today! Welcome Back

6.2m hellcat, tabou manta 54, 30cm muf weedie.  Had to take the tabou for a blast after the 95 rocket. spent most of the time tuning the new footstraps and mast foot settings. each time I moved the mast foot back a cm I picked up 2knots. This board is quick. With the right fin,  should see some good speeds

Koombana Bay  Gusty Southerly 10-22knts

Quick sail for 40mins used F2 SX63, RS6 7.8m, 36cm F2sx slalom fin.

Wanted to try this combo in the rough stuff. It just flys over the chop. Good LOC training