The West Coast Speedsters (W, United States of America) - 2018-01-01
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Barton
23.287(D)
22.203(D)
3.378(D)
14.393(D)
16.844(D)
12.542(D)
Roo
Roo Jr.
Jay-Anthony
Marc
Aron
RD
Taty
Amado
Terence B
Juvannie
Nagel
Alexander
Terence C
Bimbi
Chen
Marc van B
Gediminas
David Brittain
Manouk
Chad
Physiorol
Average
Barton (5511km):
2278 days ago
2 categories

Lac Bay, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands

2014 Sailworks Retro 7.5, 2015 iSonic 107, Black Project Freeride Delta 21, Drake Carbon 40, Wind: 15 - 16 knots

Started the afternoon with the Delta 21 fin based on seeing a lot of seaweed on the Jibe City webcam. When barely powered, the BP Delta sucks. It wants to point like crazy into the wind, spins out easily. I made one slogging run over and back. Fortunately, there were no weeds so I could overfin the board (for underpowered conditions) with the Drake 40. Life was good again after that. Made some runs, made some jibes, attempted some laydown jibes, and got my first catapult/back-slap on the sail launch of 2018 taken care of  Laughing. Tide was a little low today and I got cocky about cutting the corner of the sandbar to make a mini speed run back to the launch area. The sand bar decided to show me who was The Boss. GPS Results shows that this particular maneuver enables one to go from 22 knots to 0 knots in slightly under 3 seconds. Fortunately, no equipment broken and other than feeling a little stupid, I was fine.



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