fangy (22667km):
3652 days ago 2 categories  
Decrepit killed the wind yesterday at Fangy's so I decided to try and circumvent his influence a little. I sent him a text telling him to come down later so that Tugger and I could get a decent couple of runs in. That worked about as well as Catholic birth control as he sent back a text saying he was already exerting his calming influence on Fangy's - supposedly by rigging up before the wind came in and therefore could deny any blame when it came to creating zephyrs out of decent breeze. So we sat there and watched and waited......I was just about to put him in the same boat as Mineral and ban him altogether when Tugger turned up.
Tugger obviously brought some CBD stressed out vibes because Decrepit's influence was wiped immediately and breeze started to fill. QEII and Koncept 8.5 on the water and we are outa here. At least until the first 10 metres have passed when I hear a metalic ping and my harness snaps. Not Happy! with this turn of events. Go back in an immediately ban Decrepit from Fangy's. He ignores me and goes powering off. ..Just wait until he is in aged care home next year is how I console myself: revenge and cold dishes and all that...
So I drive alllll the way home and managed to get my old harness and then all the way back again. By this time the crusty bastard has probably clocked up 100 kms or so. I get the go ahead from the MWU and Health and Safety and the Rivers Commission to re launch the QEII without filling in the triplicate paperwork.
At last, on water and the day just gets better and better. Caught up with Tugger who was planing nicely and beginning to have a really special day on the water, partly due to a Decrepit fin that seemed to work better than the Ducks nuts. Introduced Tugger to the 'run' and every time I saw him thereafter he was sailing faster than I have ever seen him go.
At 2.30 ish I caught up with Decrepit, who had not finished messing with me. I told I was going in to change down to a smaller board as the QEII was becoming a handful. Trying to get in my good books,he advised me that we had seen the best of the wind and it was now dying.
Yep, as you cane see, he nailed that forecast. Luckily I ignored him and changed down and throughout the afternoon wrestled with the 8.5 on my Delta ride fin nailed to by F2log. The breakthrough was the increasing down haul for the last run of the day. Immediately freer leach and sail was much lighter and power further forward. Previously I had been really dogging upwind, going very very slowly and trying to keep the vortex attached. I was going sideways with drag off the sail and the power too unstable when bearing away. So as a result of an extra 2cm downhaul the last run of the day gave me my best speed, but even so it was too deep and rough at Fangy's for a Delta and I should have put on a speed weed.
Not that it was rough in a normal sense just too much for a 16 cmDelta. But all in all a really nice day on the water and I learnt a lot about my sail and fins. I was totally stoked to see Tugger having a great sail because previously he had been intent on being a farm boy and ploughing it up with surplus space shuttle fins and never been able to experience how good it can be, even when it is not at it's best like today.
However the best put down of the day belonged to a very excited 5 year old boy on the shore when I came in to change down. He and his siblings where yelling and screaming at how exciting it was. I did High Fives with all off them, and assumed my Buzz Lightyear walk. He was almost hyperventilating and he had run out of vocabulary to tell me how good it was. But just as I was walking back down the steps, he said
" that is the most awesome Kitesurfing I have ever seen!"
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