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On my own at Fangys from John St, wind was coming through with the rain squalls, only 8kts when I arrived so took a gamble and rigged the 6.3 KA Race plugged into the 53 cm board with the 21 50d deltoid. Completed rigging in lull conditions but Fangys became wall to wall white caps as I got changed. Of course as I hit the water it started to die off, but I got a run to Creery Island a back, before dropping off the plane. Groveled around for i/2 hr waiting for wind to come back. Had a good look around, and noticed most of Fangys is still clear sand, very small patches of short weed growing on the bottom. Worryingly there's stacks of short fresh green weed floating on the surface, what's causing this??????

We want this stuff growing on the bottom not floating around on the surface.

Any way, I was thinking of calling it, when I noticed the water at the other side of the eastuary looking very black, and no clouds around to make a shadow. So I kept going, trying to get as high as possible close to Creery. When the wind hit I managed to get a nice bear off back to John St, but then had trouble getting back up wind, hmm wind has swung more westerly, must pull up before getting into the gravelly stuff at the western end. All most made it, didn't hit the bottom while sailing, didn't try to gybe. But fin hit bottom when getting off and taking off again. No damage to stainless steel leading edge, but I must have hit a rock while spinning the board around tail first, because the trailing edge now has a flap, gives more lift one way, forget which now. Didn't notice it while sailing, but then got overpowered in a stronger gust, by the time I'd increased outhaul, and moved the mast track forward to cope with increased chop, wind had started to die again. Had a 30.1max on the GW52, almost lost a whole sec for the 2s average.