lao shi (41082km):
4847 days ago Session at Sbay with The Snake.
It was windy when I arrived at 1pm and started rigging. I had only put the 7m in the car to avoid chickening out.
Snake rigged his 5.4 and was sure that I was going to get blown off the water so I put some weight in the jacket and plenty of downhaul on.
Started with a few alphas and just missed a 25.03 at 57m! Made a few adjustments but the sail was rock solid and no problems holding it down
Moved up to the top of the bar once Snake hit the water and started doing some runs. They felt so easy but were not as fast as Snake so progressively backed off downhaul and ditched weight and let off outhaul. Then the wind started dropping. All the runs felt perfectly under control and could have used more wind whilst Snake said he felt on the edge at times with the Ram 5.4.
Went in ditched the weight and had a look at the data (a 24.84 alpha but with a trackpoint spike!) then went back out for some more alphas and a crack at the mile.
Nicely powered up throughout and back in for another data check saw me beat the Snake by .01 of a knot over the mile. That got his dander up so he went back out and had another go to get his 30.3. Well done on the first Sbay 30!
Had a final go at some more alphas and a few runs but the wind was not as strong then had to head home due to dinner commitments.
Need a bigger speedy weedy for alphas with this sail to get the speed across the wind but happy with a PB legal doppler min speed of 16.3 knots.
Continue to be impressed with the Loft Racing Blade 7m. Range of 15 to 25+? knts and gybes sweetly and really stable.
Fastest ever speed on the sonic with a weedy.
Loft Blade 7m, sonic 100, yoyo kinetic 27 weedy.
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machine!! Sonic number 2 now completely ruined by a large crack near the tail so might be a few days till back on the water as I still haven't got my other sonic back from the shop (2 months now !!!! 
) Hopefully I can twist their arm to do it by next week! Still a killer sesh though! 