Short sail in on/off wind at Liptons.

Man Over Board  190 Delta 6.4 Tush Lightning.

Alittle more downhall and harness back about 25 mm helped me to spin out a lot less and made recovery from spinout  possible

Thanks Dave for advice on sail tuning

Coodanup, WA, AU

No-one to play with :(     Down to S-bend, steady 14 knots. Rigged up. Dropped to 10-12knots. Was joined by Mineral who has, by all accounts, emerged from winter hibernation and was keen to  give his gear and himself a spring run.

I rigged the 7.8m2 and Delta 22 and worked up wind, sou' west of the weed bank. T'were right good fun as the gusts were up to 16-18 knots. I saw Mineral set out and then vanish. What the.....? When I caught up with him later he told me his carbon rdm had broken about a metre and a bit from the tip. Fortunately no sail damage. He re-rigged and reappeared and we had some downwond runs that were woohoo. Good fun afternoon! 

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Tabou Rocket Wide 128, NP RSR E6 7.8m, Elmo SS 45cm

Afetr a lovely weekend away with my beloved down south ho surprised was I to find that we had wind and that I wasn't working and had some spare time.

Got down thew run to find a liberal coating of white caps so I rigged the 108 Rocket, first run nicely lit took of straight away no probs setting felt good so decided to head accross to Claudesville, the breeze had a touch of west in it but nothing rediculous, I  hit a few holes on the way over mostly kept planing but did have to get out of the footstraps on a couple of occasions, gybed got going, wow theres a bit more westerly in this than the way over near the platform I copped the red arrow  and look at that lovely direction it faded and faded till I was chugging back up wind (took 30+ mins to get back)

Went back intio shore and changed boards to the 128l hoping it would get through the lulls the wind today at Novara was BGAF (beyond gusty as fark) and seemed be all over the shop like 10 mad women dosed up on directics and tea, but the big girl was able to bang on up wind like a demon, chasing the breeze I ended up on the other side of Cox Bay where I could see the boys playing at Liptons so figuring the day was abit of a lost cause speed wise I kept hammering upwind to get up to Liptons.

Gotta say totaly disoriented heading that way was hard yakka working up the chanel with a big pointer as I couldn't get to far into the weed.

Eventualy I made it down there and said a quick G'day to a rather surprised Rod before making my way to a launch spot in front of the car park.

Thinking the wind was fading and hoping to do a downwind hour I pointed the board down wind and I DO mean downwind one run from the carpark and down the channel to start blasting of down to Claudesville.

Wind started filling in a bit which was nice just past the platform I spotted a sizeble shark cruising (~4ft between fins) who didn't realy appreciate me heading towards it.

Some big bullets out there one of which Slowie would have yummed up but I don't have the testicular fortitude where a huge gust blew a fair white mist from the water chickening out I unhooked and was barely able to hang on 100m's of this and there was a 50m wide glass off on the other side which was interesting in it's own right.

Got my fill tonight of Lumpy goodness with some waiste high work in the middle and some nicely powered long runs.

Happy Muppet.

Even Happier as the Bertie inspired footstrap modification appears to be a winner with no further damage to my healing feet after 3 hours of belting around, well happy about that I can give you the tip.

Top weekend

Huge congrats to Barry, well done mate, inspirational