I was wondering if it blew at Coal.. Good Pb for the board Andrew.. Love the ' sailor too bad " Bruce- that's my excuse too..

the problem sue is having with her delta is the powerbox factor

she will need to choc it up within the box to stop the fin from pushing back

we have had heaps of sucess by, fitting the fin, removing intial rubber, replacing with double sided tape, usually a couple of layers for the first third of the fin to make tight contact, been working sweet

others have used silicon, ect

Some of the sand islands action from sunday. I forgot my gps but it felt like about 29 ish.

Great shots Cluffy!

 Thanks Fangmen. I'm looking forward to having the delta work properly.. They certainly cut through weed! Once I can pack the rear so the front doesn't come up I should be able to keep the rubber strips on and stop getting weed moustaches! Then I'll have no excuse for not getting 28kts +..

Goin great Sue, just remember smaller is faster. Cluffy, those shots look awesome! Where did you get that camera attachment? Awesome angle!!

Your runs look high over the sand islands Andrew, what fin you have in??

Here's the link to the K4 site mick. I went for the standard mount plus the extension the whole thing cost about 200 bucks with postage. I'm working on padding out the back of my harness with some life jacket foam to stabilise the mount a bit more.

http://www.k4fins.com/2012/07/k4-harness-mount/

Thanks Cluffy, i'll check that site out.

Cheers.

When I first saw Cluffys camera mount I thought he had just jammed an old baton down his butt crack. On closer inspection it is a lot more sophisticated. But I reckon you could make one easily enough.

The water was quite deep yesterday, so was able to use a 46cm fin without any trouble. I plan to try a Delta this summer, to see if I can get even closer to the islands.

You should have come down the channel Cluffy. I was fully lit on a 5.5. Endless carve jibes and you would have got the 86 out. I swear it blows at least another 5 knots there than anywhere else.

Sue, you are dead right but I find you just need to get a little more creative with the excuses. Water too rough, wind too much/ little, fin had rough spot, not enough Downhaul are always a good start, but you can add in bio- rhythms out of sync, poorly aligned chakras, bad hair day..the list is endless, well at least mine is :-)

Filed and ready to use..

James I think I used to sail with Michael Babbage at Marmong back in the 90's ..I didn't know he still sailed..

 Andrew said - When I first saw Cluffys camera mount I thought he had just jammed an old baton down his butt crack. 

Sounds painfull if you catapult etc..

Yes Michael is a keen sailor, but mostly on things with fixed masts. But he also windsurfs (slalom and Formula) + Paddle boards + Mountain bikes.

He is also the man to see if you need any sails repaired. He lives on Coal Point Road.

Is he the one that works at Bob Fussells? If so he's not the guy I'm thinking of although I know him.. The guy I used to sail with would be in his 50's now I think..I thought that was his name but obviously not.

 Cluffy how would that mount + camera handle a hard catapult stack?

I think he does work at Bob Fussels.

See Cluffys picture number 3, he is midway through a hard catapult stack. It is a Gopro they are built pretty tough.

John where did you launch from? The thought of getting out on my 86 makes me want to gibber like an idiot(more than usual). Sue the mount is very flexible due to the harness attachment but the cam took a knock from the catacpult that bumped the camera angle off so the rest of the footage was angled too low to be useful. The biggest problem is actually smacking the cam with the sail when beach starting but once I was aware of it It stopped happening.

smacking the cam with the sail when beach starting-  I wore Russ' headcam one time and whacked it hard everytime I started! I thought I'd killed it but it just didn't work that time.. Don't know how you beach start with headcams they stick up so much!

Launched from Swansea side where the little breakwall goes out off the main breakwall. Its tricky getting down the rocks there but there is usually a bit of beach in the corner so you can put your gear down. Probably be another week and a half before the tide is right again.