nice job Nigel

Good one Nigel, and great results Adrian, Remi, Artur

And you too George!

Nice one guys! Looks like a good session for the team. Great fun chasing you Artur! Remi is just so quick!! George and Nigel, I have to work out who you are!! I was on a grey isonic with a orange/grey RS slalom for the first half, and a grey/light blue/aqua hell cat for the second half. Second half was mostly working the runway.

Well done on the PBs Nigel! 25+ knots is quick, and you are just getting back into it. If you spend some time over near the runway, you would have added a 2-3 knots to that. It is not as flat as some of the places people sail in weed banks and behind sand bars etc. and you still feel the chop plenty, But it is much better than the middle. Unfortunately often the wind does not get in particulalry well down the runway, but it was pretty good yesterday compared to most times I have sailed there in the last year.

Great work guys. I had a very unusual sail yesterday, wind was flukey with small storms all around me. Wind rushing into them to the west, then rushing back out to the East. Not worth posting apart from a possble although SLOW alpha completely on port tack (the wind swung at the perfect time) FREAKY!!

I'm interested to know how long everyone has been sailing.

Me 2 years last June, how about you guys?

Matt 

About 25 years for me. But I am not the keen bean I used to be. I am lucky to sail 10 times a year these days and never in Winter!!

5 years and 6 months, I missed a couple of summers for injury and other commitments, but otherwise sailed at every opportunity. I started learning at 55, so need to take my time, but still improving.

Artur, next time Adrian is around please introduce us, you are the only one that knows both.

Thanks for sharing fellas, Adrian you must have sailed a few places in your time. Any wave sailing? George, your enthusiasm is awesome. You certainly make a big effort to get to new spots, looking forward to LG next year, just hope the stars align this time.

My uncle was into windsurfing when I was young, so I sailed his fun board a bit until I got my license and got a short board. Was then into slalom sailing for a few years (but no GPS back then, so just drag racing with mates). In there I got married and have two kids 9 and 11, so have had some droughts of sailing, but have sailed atleast once every summer. About 10 years ago I got more into bump and jump with FSW boards. Got my current isonic slalom about a year ago, and enjoying that. 

I have never sailed outside of Australia, but have sailed all over the east coast of Australia (including a windless Sandy Point and a great sail on Port Phillip Bay). Had a few great sails in the Whitsundays rigging on the front of a cat, and throwing gear over the side to sail inbetween islands. Have sailed the good spots in WA with the best sails being Corronation, Geraldton and a great sail in the swan river. Never really done wave sailing, but have ridden waves and jumped them on FSW gear. Currently in my early 40s with a couple of decades of sailing still to go hopefully!!

When I was young, I would go to the water on the chance of wind, and just hang around talking and waiting for wind. These days I will not go to the water unless it is almost gauranteed I get a sail, and I am often out and sail pretty continuously for 1-3 hours and then rush packup to get home to have dinner with family. Wish I had more time. Even doing it this way, I still feel guilty when I prevent the family doing other things so I can have a sail.

I hear you fangman... and the same applies to me. If it is a good sailing day and I miss out on sailing I am a bit hard to live with!!

Unfortunately the sport we love plays when it wants to play and not on our schedule. So you have to take it when it is there, and will probably have weeks with nothing when you have all the time in the world.

Adrian, Strategies for ensuring wind when you can actually go sailing include; Going clothes shopping with your wife without being a mood vacuum or spending too much time in the lingerie section;Remembering anniversaries but not by buying a power tool;Do not forget that you are not a food critic unless you make it- then go hard and try for the sympathy vote ( this will not work with your kids)  and finally, Standing on the sidelines at every sporting event your kids are in, this also includes sitting through ballet rehearsals and music lessons and of course every school assembly/concert.

Of course none of these have worked for me, but I thought it would be kinda nice not to be the only one suffering.

I think we have the same notes!! I take my daughter to ballet one evening a week, and have learned to like clothes shopping including trips to Melbourne just to do that for Anniversary!!