Stretch (30716km):
1986 days ago Glory Holes, Australind, WA, AU. Life is good, got to indulge in two of my passions today. Left a bush camp near Walpole this morning and rode my motorbike home via dirt tracks to Bridgetown, then slabbed it from there. Got home ito find a good seabreeze was blowing, so ducked out for an unexpected sail. Gave the flats a miss and went out playing in the chop. Had a great time, a good adrenalin sesh  , happy with the NM in the chop and on big kit. FF113/GPS7.3/TWS33
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fangy (22667km):
1986 days ago Apart from a lot of walking, that was a good fun session with Cap'n Calm, Fin, Basil, Joe and Johnski. Post the full story later :-)
Barge KaR7.1 FF24
Plan A was the Mistral Flow, but after dogging it around for an hour or so, I finally pulled up for a rest. At which point I noticed the fin had become loose. I had been giving the bergs and the bottom a hard time to try and widen the path, and certainly noticed some decent nudges. In any case, when I tested the remaining thread grip, unfortunately the fin came out in my hand. On the plus side I didn’t lose it the fin. On the down side it was a long walk back to Nairns.
I set off with a body drag technique. I was going along relatively OK, but after about 50 metres I ran across a crab who in a past life had been a Rabbi, and an expert at a circumcision. He landed the nip within a centimetre of the crown jewels as I dragged over the top of him in the weeds. Waaaaay tooo close for comfort.
I stood up and walked the remaining 300 kilometres back to the carpark, or at least that’s what it felt like. Once back I swapped on to the Barge and it handled the conditions nicely. Of course, halfway back up the run, I realised I still had the FF22 tucked in my vest. Aaargghh. Turn around, head back in and dropped the fin on Cap’n Calm’s board on the beach, because I was too lazy to walk the extra few meters more to put it with my stuff.
Once back out on the Barge, I had a nice session, running down the chop across to the next bay, then back up the top, turn in the patch and charge down the channel. I had planned to make a start making a path for an NM, but our existing path was an exercise in ‘Resistance is Futile’ and I never managed to escape its lure. Maybe next time :-)
Later in the day, it seemed strong enough for the Missy Flow, and I reckon I could have got an extra knot or two from her, but the Barge always puts a smile on the dial even if it's not so quick...Top Ten Fangy Day with the Mobbers for sure.
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Decrepit (54500km):
1986 days ago Aim today was distance hour and alphas, well I got the distance, but the other two didn't quite work for me, thank goodness for stretch and johnski.
Went with the rig of the month, 6.2, 53 and 20cm @55d.
Bit underpowered to start with, so had the sail bagged out, towards the end should have flatened it out a bit, but couldn't be bothered.
Good turnout and lotd of fun, tide was nice, but higher would have been better.
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(Mu-) fin (15418km):
1986 days ago 1 categories  Fangy weed farm, PEEL, WA AU.
f2 SX-R58, ka kon6.6, el53/20cm weeed fin. ... just missed out on the 30nt 2sec.?? more later....,maybe?
Fun shooting down the weed chanel but need more plowing through the weed to get alternet angles to the wind.
So bring your best plow/ploughs and get planting some chanels  
The trak
All ten Alphas
10 NMs too, some include alphas .
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