Lake Macquarie (NSW, Australia) - 2018-11-15
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
sboardcrazy
25.328(D)
23.079(D)
7.324(D)
16.079(D)
18.626(D)
23.526(D)
Bruce Healey
26.728(D)
24.657(D)
6.705(D)
14.125(D)
19.929(D)
21.011(D)
Tim Ford
James Farley
Greg Kiskarpati
Mick Saunders
GeoffS
Big Tom
nick0
Byron Mcilveen
Ian Wright
John Pearce
rus13b
Glenn Rumford
Steve Walsh
Andrew Haigh
adamhatfield
Hugh
Ben Turner
Murray Towndrow
Cluffy
Bear
Tibor
Nige Watts
Timbotto
Bostonfoil
Ant-man
mick13B
Woody
katelyn
Chopper
Brent Hopkins
Craig Forbes
Where's Leanne
MobZ
Croanster
dutchie1964
Ākos Molnār
dutchie1964
Kev
Brett
Average26.0323.877.0115.1019.2822.27
sboardcrazy (24391km):
1989 days ago

10-18kt S then 15-20kts + S- SSE Valentine, NSW, AU

7.5m GT turbo- RS4 ( 111ltre) - 39cm C3 sting pointer then

 RS2 ( 90ltre) - 6.6m KA Koncept - 33cm Seleect pointer

 Boy that was fun!Tongue out

Went out on the big gear at first with a patchy 10-15kts on & off the plane and pretty flat.  Then it started to comein and the chop build a bit. I was coping ok but I wasn't enjoying it and I was worried about it coming in more..

 Came in and rerigged the smaller gear. I was a bit worried about it being too patchy and turning SSE to become side offshore. A bit underdone at first. The gusts were great but there weren't  enough of them to get upwind well.I was getting back to the launch but I was working all the time and if it turned a bit more east it could have been interesting getting in. I walked it up to the point and took off. Plenty of razorfish around..Surprised

It was starting to come in now 15-20kts + and I was having a ball! Boy that combo is comfortable and fun in chop..Tongue out Unfortunately by now I was buggered so I just did one bearaway to come in.

 Boy it's deceptive.. I thought I was doing long runs but I was only using half the lake! Surprised

 Gybes on the 90ltre started out badly ( not enough practise in chop ) but after getting over the " Oh my god I have to gybe in chop!!!" stuff I just decided do the same as Budgy but go for it more and things improved.. I even got a few slow planing exits.. Hopefully a bit more practise will get me back to enjoying planing gybes on the inside like 2012.

Lovely to use a pointer. Valentine used to be my favourite launch pre GPS now I remember why..Smile

 Lyds , Jeff , Andrew & I.



Bruce Healey (24088km):
1989 days ago

Umina Beach, NSW, AU

Warm, sunny, beautiful... Went cloudy, cold & overpowered  but still had some great downwind runs with the swell. RS3, 7.5, 36 fin.



Comments
Lyds


NSW
Australia
1989 days ago
Good stuff Sue your new sail looks great
Bostonfoil


NSW
Australia
1989 days ago

Nice session Sue. You looked comfortable out there. I don't think we got anywhere near 20kts though. I find it always looks like more than it is at Valo.Laughing

sboardcrazy


NSW
Australia
1989 days ago

Thanks. Right at the end I got some good gusts..18 -20..not that much earlier..Smile