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Leighton Beach, WA

Fun session with Norts - 15 knots with a few 20 knot gusts at about 5.

Borrowed Nort's gear and went a couple of knots faster (2 sec and NM) - don't you hate that!

Futura 111, Evo 6 7.8, Carpenter 38 and M137, Overdrive 8.6 , CL SL2 42

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Carlisle St, Safety Bay, WA, AU

Cruisy conditions, sunny and warm

RRD xfire 102, ReflexII 7.0, C3 StingII 27 weedy

Novara Beach, WA, AU - IS101, CR6.5, Delta 24.  Ohhhh soooo smoooth!  Gybes were almost easy!  Thanks Anita and the rest for pointing out the place.

Novara Beach, WA, AU 6.4K M91 23 Pepeweed 15 knots

I have been having trouble with proximity of alphas so I thought I'd check out alphaland today. There wasn't much wind and it was hard to get going after the gybes, and very hard to get the proximity, so VERY surprised I managed a PB! My technique did improve as I went along, but this gybe was my third one. Looking at the realspeed graph you can see the wind & my speeds really dropped off after that.

I might have to try alphaland again! I think a lot of the rock garden markers have gone though. It was hard to work out which side of the remaining two we should sail on.

Good to catch up with GS, Birdman, AC1, Bono, Paz and Leon who had his first sail with a GPS today.

Novara Beach, WA, AU

Rocket 125, 7.0 Overdrive, 23 delta.

My first time at alphaland, the wind was very light and never came in as forecast but a fun sail never-the-less

Session 1 Alphaland Novara AU 2 Sec 28.17, 5x2 24.46, Alpha 18.31, Nm 18.07, Km 9.05

Mistral Explosion 103 litre, NP RSS 7.0m2, 22cm Maui weedie

First sail at Alphaland.  Not my cup of tea. Not a place for guesswork either.  Great to meet AC1 for the first time, and to catch up with the other Pinnaroo blowins Anita, Leon, Goh.

Session 2, Coodanup, WA, AU 2 Sec 26.49, 5x2 24.24, Alpha 19.64, Nm 23.13, Km 18.07

Mistral Explosion 103 litre, NP RSS 7.0m2, 22cm Maui weedie

Ah now that's better.  Groove in the smooth, and relatively rock free.  Great to catch up with Hardie, Decrepit and the Fangster doing their thing.  The breeze was starting to die out and by the end of the session I was only just able to get up on the plane, so nothing exciting happening in the alpha space today.

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Fun power gybing session at the local after the W word.

Not many out for a fair late season breeze.

S1 5.9, Rider quad.