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No energy, shoulda stayed in bed

Safety Bay, WA, AU Futura 101 & CA Sp50, NP RS Slalom III 7.0, FO 34cm weedy * Finworks 26cm weedy

Fun Session Need to work on the exits to my Alphas always slow out and too narrow

69 jp ss,7.8 rssmkiv,38 ss fin

melville gusty poo's

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Waves looked a bit small and a long way apart, so took the speed gear out here instead,

48cm board, 5.4 Avalon 23cm ado lockwood.

Managed to find a couple of waist high waves, very strange riding them on speed gear though. Couldn't turn very fast, and was always conscious of how close the nose came to the trough just before the bottom turn.

Was very pleased to see 31.85 on the dial, that's the fastest I've been on open ocean.

Hardies Run, WA, AU07 f2 xtc 91lit,28 hypersonic weed fin,6m north trans am

Another enjoyable session, once the wind come in

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Hardies... find the wind very patchy, felt like it was coming but never really powered on the 5.8 with no powered jybes . Buuuut I had a baaaall sailing at alphaland and the long of the island, it was very cruisy.... Wanted to have some test on my new crafted fin.

Shouda used the Tabou59 with more volume and width for my alpha session

RRD_80L, RSR_5.8, 250/40_SS_Wide (fantastic fin like his little 22 brother)

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Ledge Point, WA, AU

F2SX68wide x 105L, RSR Evo1 6.7m, 36choco weedy

LOC. What can i say i went for the 6.7m and the SX68( could have been on the CASL52 for the second half of the race) as it was not fully cranking before the start.

I had a good starting positon 3rd line top of the row. Had all the big guns in front of me so i was thinkng i would get clean air as they would be at the first gybe boat by the time i got going. I hit the water looking good, jumped on and had full power in my sail and thought whoo hoo this is good, two pumps and i knew either Nebs has tied a plastic bag to my fin or i had caught weed. Sure enough i had a weed clump the size of a small child. I was now in deep water so while clearing the fin NEbs sped past looking very smug. he didn't hear me call him all sorts of names. Once under way it was really nice untill the last two legs. The wind filled in and the sx68 started to get a bit out of control. At one stage while the channel 10 chopper was over head i tail walked for 200m's on the verge of a huge crash.The whole time i kept thinking tomyself "dont crash as it will go on the news".

By this atage my front arm and back leg was burning and feeling week. i started sailing with the back foot in the other back strap and it helped alot. The last outward leg went for ever. I saliled and saliled and didnt see any boat till i saw a yellow boat that sails were going round. i headed for that gybed and headed in (I am still unsure if it was the right boat or not) I kept looking and couldn't see any other boats anywhere). I was futher north than i have ever been on this leg as never before have i had to sail back up wind to the passage.

I'm very happy to have finished. I was my 6th one and by far the hardest