Melville Beach, WA, AU Really blew out the winter cobwebs today, wetsuit is going in the cupboard. Plenty of crew out making the most of it. A bit busy so had to keep an eye out but there were some good runs and the gusts were solid. Tide came in an got a couple of nice runs over the sandbar. Lots of chop out there today but who cares, it was sunny. 97/6.6/27

Melville Beach, WA, AU

A fun session with plenty of Pinna's. Was under done most of the time trying out the new Manta 61 and the Vapor 6.4. wp 28

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Well that was a hoot. A solid 20knt seabreeze earlier on and was fully lit on the 7m. Changed down boards to the FF98 for more TOW with this combo. Starting to feel the love with this board but still need to play with a few more different fins. Nice day for good 'ol Melville with plenty out (read too much) enjoying a good slapping. 

SB i107 & FF98, Evo9 7m, CL sl34 & Tribal Swsp27

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Melville Beach, WA, AU

Nice summery feeling day at Melville with plenty of people out enjoying the gustiness and boat chop.

We sure are lucky in Perth with the options for places to go.

It surprises me often how there are so many windsurfers i havent seen before. I wonder how many are in Perth?

Anyhow, Great day at Melville

M112, Reflex 8 7.0, Tribal ws 29

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Pelican Point, WA, AU

Am I the only one who noticed or are there heaps of boats on the river this year? Kiters at Melville beach, powerboats through the channels and yachts everywhere else. You couldn't get a good run without some sort of craft in front of you.

Anyway no flat water to be found anywhere except up at the sandbar at Melville so thought I might improve my 2 sec  but decided to head back to Peli. 

Good fun, board is easy and fast but a bit overfinned with a 32. Got a 28 almost ready

WindTech 57 , Ka 6.3 . 32 fin

Melville, WA, AU,

Started morning at Dutchies and learned a good lesson, leave the ocean to the pro’s. I stuck my tail between my legs and retreated to the relative calm of Melville. It was certainly much easier. Finished with a test sail on Lunnys Patrik 92 certainly gybes like a dream.

M91; OD 6.2; 29 SW

Fastest on the Patrik, thanks Lunny

Cottesloe, WA

Awesome foil and slalom session in 20-25 knots. Slalom first, the new Windtech 57 amazing in today's mega chop, just let down by my fin being way too small, had to abort every NM attempt through major spinouts and getting airborne.

At about 3.30 got the new 105L foil board out for a few super-fun downwinders, depowering as much as I could - a 3m sail would have been nice.

Windtech 57   Simmer Race 5.8  CLSL1 27cm    Slingshot Wizard 105 & Time Code 68   Blacktip 4m

Cottesloe, WA, AU/Melville

Started the session at Dutch Inn, was going for an hour and thought I had completed it but when I looked at GPSResults I was short by 5 minutes, ah well wasn't meant to be. Went for a second run at dutchies but the water conditions got too choppy for any consistant run and after talking to  Tailwind we both decided Melville to finish of the day. Melville lots out wasn't going for speed as the Koyote freeride sail is limited, 2 sec, 5x19 alpha best results at Melville 1 hour minus 5 minutes at Dutchies, happy enough that if I kept going would have been another 20 hr on the ocean, Distance rookie mistake tought I had the 123k on the watch but had 17 from a previous that wasn't cleared so only 106 for todays session

Manta 61 Koyote 5.9

Melville Beach, WA, AU M91, 5.4K, 30 Tribal, then 24FF

I never felt comfortable today despite adding more downhaul, changing fins etc. Ultimately I had a big crash on the sandbar mid gybe. I am still not sure what happened but I remember looking ahead mid gybe and finding that unexpectedly, I was heading towards the shallowest part of the sandbar. Just as I was contemplating tightening up the gybe - splat. After that I was aching all over so I called it a day. I went home and straight to bed for a couple of hours but I still feel like rubbish. I can't even blame a weedberg.

The best part of the day was catching up with so many of you. The sailing wasn't doing it for me so I spent most of my time standing around chatting. There are still at least 3 more Pinnaroos to post from Melville. Top team turnout!

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Well that hibernation was longer than expected. I blame climate change.

Good to catch up with some Pinnas at Melville.

New gear to figure out.

JP SuperSport 100. Tribal WS 25, 2018 NXC 6.0

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Enjoyable session if not fast.

105 Rocket, 5.8 Koncept, 19 Delta good for the sandbar but rather draggy so changed to 29 weedspeed

Lots of Pinnas around today, mostly sailing past me.

Watermans Beach, 5.8 Ezzy, 95 Kode

nice day in the sun, they put up the waterslides but I dont think they followed the instructions. 

higher tide made things a lot easier.

Pelican Point, WA, AU

Windtech 64 SB, 7.0 NP Evo, 29cm Lockwood speedweed.