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JJ (25827km): Cottesloe, Dutch Inn Nice 12 to 18 knot foiling breeze - almost overpowered at about 5.30pm. Fun trying to ride the small swells. Mark looked comfortably balanced on long glides. Long mast is definitely easier for controlling the ride height. Figured out I can pump the foil with my feet, more effectively than pumping the sail. Naish WS1 (90cm mast) Ezzy Elite 5.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
scarrgo (8964km): LOC 2018 actually didn't intend on even being in lano till friday evening decided it might be a nice drive the conditions peaked my interest so I registered and started pulling out the foil gear was good to catch up with alot of people and have a few good chats before the start, but this did ruin my race as I was stuffing around too much before the start and I actualy missed it, was at least 5 minutes late and puffed out by the time I got on the water after running around on the beach in a full wetsuit so I got on the water and assumed I was going to be joining the slog fest but I managed to grab just a little gust of SE and with a few pumps I was up flying over reefs nicely and hunting down the fleet but very quickly began to realize that there was a bit of a discrepency in where all the windsurfers were going relative to where all the kites had been going and it was a MUCH bigger distance than the aprox 100m the race commity had described, so I got a bit curious and didn't go hard upwind with the rest of the fleet and it didn't take long for me to realize that there were two boats where the kites were going and it matched the description given by the race commity exactly, the inside boat had a yellow bouy on the anchor line and the kites were going around it and the other boat was about another 100m to the west with an orange flag up and a big number 1 on the front I put the foot down and went deep as I started to pick up the freshening seabreeze and amazingly went form last off the beach to 4th around the first mark however I progressivly lost places after I made three little mistakes on the next couple of legs and got wet each time I was still able to make up ground on the deep runs back to the beach but as we got further down the coarse and the wind got stronger I was less and less competative on the not so deep runs out I was still going well by the last leg and trading blows with claude but the tanks were running on empty after the big effort before the start to get off the beach and had a good crash in what had become very hairy conditions for the foil with a bit of swell and quite alot of breaze, I spent quite a while in the water stuffing up the water start 3 times but I did manage to get things together and get back in the bay and navigate the reefs without a spectacular crash, as alway the flat water inside the reefs was a very nice short lived heaven, however I was now contemplating how I was going to get to the beach and I was keeping a close eye on the bottom, but before I knew it I got flung over the front from seemingly hitting the bottom but as I realised as I tried to stand up there was more than enough water under the kit but far too much long weed growing off the bottom, so I had quite a long swim and walk to get to the beach and after helping the confused gear handlers with my kit I wandered over to the finish feeling absolutely exhausted and like I was robbed on a few occassions today but to be honest I am now pretty content as I did have my fair share of good luck with the fleets confusion over the first mark and all 6.2 reflex 4, 135 JP HF, NP F4 foil with the small wing gear was awesone, didn't get the chance to tune before race but it just worked and all the settings were pretty good I was rigged with the big wing and made the decision to change to the small wing last minute and it was definately the right call also there was a fair few chunks of weed on the coarse and the foil shrugged all them off without hesitation which was a relief but all up correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe I am the first windfoil to ever finish the Lancelin Ocean Classic | ||||||||||||||||||
Kenny (16394km): Ledge Point, WA, AU LOC first attempt. Went into the race hoping to finish at best. Wind stayed easterly all the way until start time of 2:20pm. saw a few masts snapping in the 37 heat so hesitated fully riggin the sail. countdown started and ran down the beach with my sail in the last 10 seconds. Was exhausted by the time I got there and took a breather while the fleet set sail. Most had a difficult time getting of the beach including me until the wind turned southerly. started planing downwind while the leaders of the pack were way up wind. Hit the reef after gybing at the 2nd inside mark and took a while getting back on. started noticing the wind starting to pick up gradually and getting more and more lit on the big sail and the big board. rough water around all the outside mark made gybing challenging. Could see the finish line before the last gybe but headed as broad a possible to avoid the reef at the south passage. by this time my legs and arms were in agony holding the 7.5 in over 20 knot winds. just made it past the reef and planed cross wind to the finish. lucky to finish under one hour (59:42) @ 55th place. Thankful to see fellow Pinnas Anita and Ben at the finish line. Thanks for the support. Also stoked to see Jake and Sean smash it and Lunny do well in his first race. 7.5 koncept, 125 patrik, 38 vector weedy
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Snake (23888km): LOC. Wow, where did all the time go? I had a whole 5 hours in Ledge to prepare for the start, but somehow managed to still be frantically rigging in the dunes with 5 minutes to go. Knocked a few people over with the sail as I ran with it toward the front row with 40 seconds to go. Board attached to sail with 30 seconds to go. Geeez, cutting it close. Turns out it didn't matter anyway, as I spent the first 5 minutes standing in knee deep glass off, waiting for something, anything to beach start with. No uphaul, and 107l didn't really lend itself to joining the slow slog out, so just waited until some wind finally arrived. Was probably one of the last 10 or 15 sailors off the beach. But once that gust hit, I was on the plane and away. Straight into the reef. Doh! Nice chunk of fin now missing. 16th overall and 7th in Open. My best L2L result to date. Yeeeeharrrr! Great day, great weekend of sailing and great party on sat Stoked! |
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