Possibly not a top ten Fangy day....

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Determined to get wet today no matter what! Tried liptons first but gave that idea up due to a distinct lack of water. The wading birds where standing on the bottom 200m out and still only up to their knees!

So back to our old haunt Novarra, didn't look very promising only got 6kts on the windmeter at the shore, but then the casurinas started to rustle a bit more, so Pas, yoyo and I rigged the biggest gear we had. Stroppo arrived and informed us there was enough there to get us planing, so went out and found to my surprise he was right! Nice to be out on my first seabreeze sail of the season, even though very light it was also steady, only just planing a lot of the time, but didn't actually have to grovel.

Took the opportunity to try out the mods to the super weedy. I've lengthened it a couple of centimeters, straightening up the leading edge. This has successfully incresed the lift a bit. It behaves much nicer in deeper water now, not enough chop to really test it though. The 31 or 29 would have been better for the conditions, but it's not always a good idea to do the testing when you need the thing to work.

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Navara, WA, AU.   Carve99, GTX 7m,  26cm weedy45.

A light wind, late arvo sail, Some of what Decrepit wrote, and to add that I hit a submerged rock before I'd even started planeing.

So I wasn't going too well to start with, and then spent a bit of time giving the fin a fix with a file borrowd from Elmo, (thanks E ).

JP SLW 92, NP RSR Eiv 9.5, Pepe Weed 50cm

First stiffy of spring

After a day of spreadsheeting got the Text for Yoyo so toddled down for a late run, wind didn't look all that strong so being a lazy fecker I got out nice nice big girl with her loverly fat arse and a (lazy) man sized sail which as I was rigging was getting a bit aprrehesive about as the wind appeared to be filling in.

But the time I hit the water this delusion of a filling in wind had disapeared like a politions promise and my fatty boombalatta gear was in its element.

Decided that I'd give an hour a tickle and was well happy that I manageds to bang one out, happy that I only dropped two gybes, really happy that I dropped them too as I was cooking in the steamer, which can now get it's spring wash as I drag out the springy.

Surprised with how light the wind was

But like Decrep stoked to get in an early seabreeze sail, even better to get a solid hour.

Just to cap of the day managed to get my gratuitous chair shot with a saucy litlle minx sitting in it

Shame Hardz wasn't there as well to appreciate the shallow weedy goodness, soon mate