SchneckeSam anytime you have over 100kms that qualifies as a good day out in my book.Nice work across the board as usual :-)

Woohoo Evets you were on fire - i have a feeling I am going to be writing this a few times today, but, that is a  great session just about across the board. Congrats on the PBs - the rarer they are the sweeter they are :-)

Thanks Fangy, you would have loved it. I tried to plug the delta into my little board towards the end of the session only to find i need to give the head of the fin a tickle to get it to fit. Hence the swap to the 54. All good, it meant I knowked out a vcouple of alphas. As always TOW is the key to fitness and I have not had much recently.

Stroppo's hour was I believe with a Delta. Good proof that in the right hands and the right conditions they work well.

Nice  one steve. Smok'n mile mate 

35+mile! Great stuff, Evets!

evets, big congratulations on the very impressive PBs.  Not many sailors with a 35+kn nm.

Mike, bet you've got a grin from ear to ear with that naughty.  Well done.

Thanks Sausage, Hardie has called it WA's lake george. We just need more wind. Is that the clarion call of windsurfers the world over?

Congrats on the NM PB Decrepit, a PB after 30000kms+ is remarkable.

Great going Rob, two more excellent PBs. When did you do the 2 sec and mile? I could never match my first run which was at 2:05pm. After that no matter what I tried I was slower

pretty late in the day.

just tried to follow the stroppeddo down the run.

that seemed to work.

Thans Ratz, I should have tried the same, Strop said he was going to try a few runs at about 4 ish. Credit to you for the great speeds. Hope to see you there again soon.

Hardie. Fabulous numbers and no doubt good to clear some cobwebs.  How'd the leg pull up?

Ratz (damn auto correct changed it to Tags), congrats on the PBs.  Nm king today too.

great numbers Hardie, really happy to see you getting back in the swing.

Ratz very impressive PB!! Well done mate. Good to see you going fast on the CA50

Huge guys well done. 

YeeHaa, awesome numbers and congrats, great to seed Hardarse back and flying 

yep ben

glad you talked me in to buying one

nice one hardie looked like you were having fun out there.

second fastest two second for the day i think.

super speeds everyone.

Hardie - you haven't lost much that's for sure. Congratulations for having the courage to go for it!

Wish I could have been there...

Huge congrats on the PBs Mike, Steve and Alby

Ratz that is a smoking NM

Joe, incredible technique to do almost 40 knots without the benefit of full recovery

WooHoo Alby Great Alpha and NM, great trip away, and to share it wifya!

Congrats Mobbers thats a great team effortHardie good to see you easing back into it.

Shame you missed all the lovely weather up here.

Don't feel superfluous Fangman, every team needs a story teller although MM seems to have a surplus of those too ;-)

Congrats on the alpha pb Elmo.  Bummer about being just over the proximity on a 26kn alpha.

Wow aewsome session crew lots of pb's!

congrats to all

Sweet naughties, team! That mile is amazingly close to your 10sec ave, Ratz! Very consistent!

Elmo! So for from the German gybes of old!

Awesome to see the Hardone still has his mojo!

Fantasic effort Elmo, terrible to hear about the proximity with the top alpha.

Well done guys, fantastic job , Elmy and Mike great brochetta , Joe no more excuses about a leg

Awesome Sammy!

Jo, good to see you back on the water good speeds for one leg. 

Nice ks Sam & Mike. 

Top NMs also. 

Great to see you back Hardie, and Im sure your medical advisors would have been fine with you easing back into things like that

Well done everyone sounds like it was worth the drive !

Evets, you are saying see you again in two weeks - is that because you will be home again in two weeks or do you have a long range weather forecast?

a great team effort guys and a great come back hardie, and decrepit for absolutly smashing your previous  PB  (seven years )

Just to explain my recovery and return to windsurfing.  I saw the Ortho Surgeon 10/12/14, and he explained that the leg bone was unlikely to break since the xray showed complete healing but that the major risk was soft tissue injury because of muscle weakness and susceptibility of ligaments and tendons.  He said 12 months was the usual time for muscles and soft tissues to get back to full strength.  He asked about windsurfing and the degree of strain and risk I would likely expose myself to.  I replied windsurfing had a vast range from gentle to extreme, and if he gave the go ahead I would windsurf at the gentle end (the first slight fib on my behalf).  He said OK then I approve that you can start windsurfing again.

My first windsurf was next day on 11/12/14.  I went out for about 10 mins and it all felt too much for the leg as the wind picked up to 20kts.  I tried again next day 12/12 and again wind quickly built and the leg just wasnt up to it.  Quit after 10/15 mins.  Decided to have a break for 10 days and build up more strength in leg and so back on the water about 22/12 and this time at fangy's where water was much flatter than Novara. About a 15 to 20 min session, and it felt stronger than when I first started. So from about the 22nd of Decemeber I have had one or two sails per week at Fangy's, slowly building up the amount Of time I windsurf and also trying things like downwind speed runs and gybing/alphas.  The downwind speed runs felt much easier on the leg than gybing, the amount of force, strength and twisting required in gybing is unnoticed until you are returning recovering from injury.

So yesterday was not my first sail back, it was the first one that I have posted on the GTC.  I started to wear the gps again at about the 4 week (middle of January) mark, 29kts peak first time.  Then broke into the 30's, progressed to low 30's, and have had about 3 or 4 sessions where I have cracked the mid 30's with a couple of high 36's.  I promised captain I would post again if it would help the team, and yesterday was just the perfect conditions, dead flat water, steady strong wind, and I just went into total denial i was recovering from a broken leg, and had promised the surgeon I would stick to gentle windsurfing for the first 6 months.  How embarrassmenting

Super effort from everyone some great pbs and lots of fun doing it nice to be there with you all and great speeds joe for a one leged warrior and glad you posted

Well done every one  sure is a special place.

Hardie, you a true legend, well done mate

The rest of you guru's, that is a great day out with PB's and by the sounds of it, a bloody good weekend down there.

Evets,man that is honking with the NM runs, well done mate

Maybe next time...maybe

Great to catch up with all you Mob and share such an awesome weekend.

Well done on all the PB's and thanks heaps ALBY for saving the day.

Really nice numbers Mandurah Men-especially the NMs !!

Hardie-Great to see you performing at such a high level again -You're back !! -gotta get cracking on my Alphas before you crack a 44 ...

Well done  Mike great start to the year, hope i can do as this year, you will be hard to beat again.

Mike, Thanks. A little channel across the tip of the sand bar to the south end would make a NM run perfect - anyone know someone with a barge excavator

Hardie, thanks for the update on the leg.  Very hard to get that leg strength back to normal.  My left thigh is still slightly smaller (weaker) and I did my knee (100% rupture of the patella) in 2003.  I've started supplementing windless periods with some cardio / light weight gym work which has been brilliant for stamina (but still carrying my built-in weight jacket)

I come from back from my daughter's wedding in country Queensland where internet access is even slower than my alphas and find that everyone has been misbehaving in their spare time. Bastards!!! The bar has been set even higher for me now......:)

Great PB's Elmo, Ratz, Evets and my venerable Capt'n. Mustn't forget Hopalong Hardie who has accelerated healing apparently....have you been to Loudres?.....great work and awesome speed Hards! And to our interstate snail, Sammy....tres, tres vite mon ami....formidable. Beaucoup de PB's!

Congrats to all!!!  

Sausage, at high tide that sand bar is sailable. much easier than wading it!

Truly amazing to see so many 34 + nautical miles congratulation on great effort guys.

Then all this graphs and charts make this even more interesting lecture ( a lots to learn for me , special thanks to evets - I alway wanted to see how it looks very fast nautical mile on speed graphs - to see how constant the upper speed is over distancce).