Connewarre Cremasters (VIC, Australia) - 2010-08-01
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Jacques Kint
35.42(D)
30.72(D)
17(D)
22.21(D)
27.39(D)
60.72(D)
Frant Bucek
30.48(D)
24.37(D)
0(X)
0(X)
18.38(D)
16.2(X)
Average32.9527.558.5011.1122.8938.46
Jacques Kint (18975km):
5791 days ago
6 categories

What happened to the 30-40knots!!, i'll tell ya didn't turn up. Went to swan bay today and sailed with Pete and Ado from the pit crew, had some good runs but the wind once again didn't do what was expected, just couldn't get a powered up nautical, just want on good day here, but i think its gunna be once in a blue moon i think.

F2 SX Large, Tushingham x15 6.4, select weed 30

F2 Sx Small Tushingahm X15 5.8, FO 26 weed



Frant Bucek (477km):
5791 days ago

Well I went to Point Henry at about 2pm. Rigged up and launched just as the hailstorm came through. Sat it out for a couple of minutes before squeezing in just 5 tentative runs before the breeze died out to dogging.

Sonic 85 KA Koncept 6.6 Lascheter 23 cm weedfin. (and my first sail in 6 month body)



Comments
Red


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

didnt miss much then?
Jacques Kint


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

And dare i say you might be right, it might be back to the trusty old piont most the time
Frant Bucek


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

Can't have been much worse than my Saturdays effort at trying to get out on the lake in a Westerly. I couldn't even get a single run in.
Peter Johnston


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

Good top speed Jacques - and good to catch up today. One day SB will go ballistic!
Jacques Kint


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

Maybe, but that 1.5nm slog, and swim back, for the thrid time, is slowly turning me off. But i think by the sound of Frant's session today, it may well have been the same in town, that's what i'll keep telling myself to give it one more try.
Peter Johnston


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

Yes, it would be interesting to compare notes with Frant as it sounds like we didn't get any less wind at Swan Bay than at Point Henry. The Seabreeze graphs for today look pretty ordinary also and not too different to what we experienced. So I think that shows that the land shadow effect can't have been too much.
Jacques Kint


VIC
Australia
5791 days ago

Hope your right, we live in hope and wait, just took the rubbish out and its howling now...standard
Frant Bucek


VIC
Australia
5790 days ago

Are the rubbish bins still there Jacques. It came through mighty wild last night. I have cut a few trees down to improve the view of the lake from my bedroom window. These acted as a windbreak and without them the french door which has only a dead bolt in the bottom was bending open at the top letting the weather right in. It was just like being onboard a boat.

I think Point Henry might have been a bit more consistent than Swan Bay. A couple who had been out earlier commented that it had been pretty gusty, but the bloke had been using a 5.3. I sat out the 25 knot hailstorm for about 2 minutes before sailing on the back of it for about 15 minutes. I dogged back to the carpark from deep in the saltworks but just as I got back it picked up again but I was knackered.