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Albany, WA, AU Harding rd . Nice little arvo sesh with Steve. First out on the JP121 with 36 weedy then change to JP 101 with 31 weedy. NP EVO5 7.0

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Lilacs M91SL TR16 7.0 27pepeweedspeed

Nice arvo sail with Shane after watching the Melbourne GP on TV.

Had trouble with spin out in gybes, possibly brought on by trying to gybe too tightly and by incompetence. Great to be out on the water. It is cooling down, I felt cold, it was 19C!

Peel Inlet, WA, AU. FF113/GPS7.3/TWS33. aaah the desperation of a wind addict! Really shouldnt have bothered with the drive to Dawesville, but it has been 3 weeks since my last fix sir.  Slugger was in the same boat, so we had a cuppa and a chin wag for a while, whilst watching a couple of floaties (Elmo and Strop) trolling. About to pull the pin when the wind improved a little (must have been at least 12kts!) and the floaties started levitating...there was hope.   A 20% chance of planing was enough for us, so out we went. We werent out for that long, but it was still a joy to be out on the water planing. Worth the drive 

JP HF 135L, NP RSR E6 7.8m NP RSX MWS

Best session ever!!!!

A big call with a hurt foot and an hour of chugging at the start.

We got down to Franks at around 1330 and the wind was in, after much fluffing around I hit the water at 1430 and the wind was almost none existant, so I chugged +2km up wind to where the Stroppo was, on the way I had a curious dolphin swim the slowest I'd ever seen one swim as it swam on it side under my board sussing me and my foil out, twas pretty cool.

Wobble gybed in front of Liptons and decided to sacrifice myself  by going back and calling it quits as Huey seems to like a quitter. So after another 30mins of chugging we were pretty much straight out from the parking spot when there was a hint of a zephyr, so went a bit further and wobbled another gybe, a couple of minutes later after some very enthusiastic pumping, flight was achieved, it wasn't graceful or pretty, a bit like a stoned cocky but we were flying.

Thus it started, good breeze for the next hour, doing runs up past the first channel marker at Liptons down past the sand bar markers in Dawesville, nice 3.5km legs, got 6 of those puppies in, the estuary south of the sand bar markers was looking so tempting but just didn't trust the wind so chickened out.

At the end of the session my  back was starting to give me grief but got sucked in for one last run, gybed the couldn't for the life of me get on the foil, in hind sight I think I must have collected some weed or something, struggling to get going I blew out my arms, when I eventualy ungainly got up on the foil Stropp sails past nice and close so I F'cked up and went over the front unfortuntely my front foot decided it realy wanted to stay in the footstrap whilst I was over the front of the board which resulted in much merriment and grinding for me.

More struggling to get going and more importantly to get the 1km back downwind, just to make things more interesting the wind picked upsome more.

Had a crash course in getting the board to go downwind 3 in fact, including another one with the same foot stuck in the footstrap again just to make sure I was aware of the first incident, but downwind I did go. One last tack and I was back at base.

Quick discussion with the Stroppy fella and even with the trials and tribulations it was still concluded "As the best session ever".

Good to see Stretch and Slugger flying around on their slappers (gives an idea on wind strength at the end)

Realy happy with the RSX MWS foil, so much easier to control, makes me look almost proficient.

Good times

Peel Inlet, WA, AU

 Could see the dynamic duo in the distance hovering above the water making some sweet runs into the channel. Nice going Alby

rigged up and followed Rob out, we got a couple of good runs in,  better than nought...