Cro Aeolus Speedhunterz (North, Croatia) - 2009-08-30
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Adi
33.278(T)
31.833(T)
13.278(T)
17.54(T)
26.038(T)
32.784(T)
Vladan Desnica
32.82(T)
31.95(T)
13.1(T)
23.37(T)
21.31(T)
25.6(T)
Jan
27.525(D)
26.189(D)
12.561(D)
21.008(D)
21.251(D)
44.474(D)
Zok
26.48(T)
23.15(T)
7.83(X)
17.02(T)
16.49(T)
30.25(T)
Ogi
28.662(X)
23.763(X)
0(X)
15.359(X)
20.576(X)
20.245(X)
Average33.0531.8913.1922.1923.6738.63
Adi (15022km):
5324 days ago
4 categories

Karin, good day with Pierre and Brane. Gusty, from zero to 50 kt. Later wind stabilizied a litlle, but still - it was strugle to ride this nervous gusts...  iSonic 94, NP Slalom 6,2, Slamdevil 31

PS Today my all time PB on 500 m - 31,03 kt! :-)



Vladan Desnica (6109km):
5323 days ago
3 categories

ok day in liznjan with loft 5.6, isonic 86 and choco fins 31... unfortunately the bora was too norherly so the flat zones to get the top scores were not really flat :( and for my 75 kg that plays a big role...

my nautical mile score is also pretty low... but it includes 4 jibes, do i get any extra points for that? :) :)

did only 25 km, and then my boom broke... what a bummer. i guess it wasn't my day either...

the wind was all right though, constant and strong, for wave sails between 3 and 5 m2. unfortunately i was the only guy on racing gear. the strongest wind was from sunrise til ca. 10h, then it dropped a bit and stayed like that till ca. 14h. then it dropped even more, some guys were out with 6-7 m2.



Jan (2971km):
5323 days ago
3 categories

I had one of those days in which nothing really happend as planned...

Came to Punat last night and spend the night there so I could start early in the morning.

My team mate Marin suffered an injury last night so he decided not to go (I hope you're feeling fine now bro).

The forecast turned out to be a bit wrong and I just did not feel in a zone (as Adi would say...)

The rain had not stopped till early in the morning, "Bura" came a bit late and was very gusty, ranging from 10 - 35 kts.

I waited for a while for a bura to settle in, then started with RS Slalom 7.8 / iSONIC 111, Drake 38cm.

After one run I realized that the gusts are too violent for that sail.

So I changed to Warp 6.8 which worked fine for a while although there were a lot of wind holes, followed by gusts of 30 knots.

I made one bad gybe and broke bottom batten in my Warp. So I told my self what I knew from the start and went ashore.

It just wasn't my day.

 

After cooling down I packed and decided to go home early but then went to see some friends surfing nearby. So I rigged RS Slalom  7.8 again (didn't want to risk Warp with broken batten)  and surfed for another half an hour  (while everybody else were surfing with 5-6 m2 sails). It was choppy and difficult but I least I had a good workout....

 



Zok (1068km):
5323 days ago

Very gusty and choppy Sunday in Kvarneric Bay near Punat on Island Krk.

The gear was a combination of Thommen RS59 and JP FSW 102 and NP Excess 6,4 due to the conditions.



Ogi (1222km):
5319 days ago

Hi all, ma first post & session. As I just started using GPS (GT-31) if somebody sees any mistakes let me know, I m still learning.

I drove a short evening session on NE wind, on Falcon 104 with NS Triple XXX 5.8 but was overpowered in short time so I had to go on shore.

As I just bought Falcon 104 2008, any suggestions about fins?! I was thinking of buying SL9 35, for using with 5.8 & 7 m2 sails.

My weight 70 kilo. Thanks for advice, chears.

 

 



Comments
Pepe47


WA
Australia
5324 days ago

Well done Adi, sounds like a bit of a struggle in those conditions Cool

Adi


South
Croatia
5324 days ago

Thanks Pepe47 - hands suffers, a lot of going up and down from the water - yes, strugle, but better that than no wind! :-)

Marin


North
Croatia
5324 days ago

Nice score Bro Wink.. 5/10 is pretty good, as well as 500 m. But Pierre still seems uncatchable Tongue out. I'd like to see him in some world renown competition, in Namibia let's say. Pierre, what do you say Laughing?

Marin


North
Croatia
5324 days ago

Well Jan, you can see it was not my day also.. we will make it better next time ;). Congrats on fighting with big sails, that's a good slalom training Wink..

ODIN


South
Croatia
5324 days ago

Nice 500m Adi its all about catching the right gust well done .

Marin i reakon Namibia would be very good for all of us 100% Pbs

Warrior


North
Croatia
5324 days ago

nice alpha Jan

Adi


South
Croatia
5324 days ago

Yes, I always admire your alphas, Jan!

Marin


North
Croatia
5324 days ago

Yep, Jan is a good jiber (not điber in croatian) but good jibing machine Tongue out...

Marin


North
Croatia
5324 days ago

Then. let's pack, rent a plane and go to Namibia for two weeks at least. Do we have a deal Laughing? If I ever win a lottery, this would be first thing to do Cool...

Vladan Desnica


South
Croatia
5323 days ago

adi congrats on your 500m score! strange it is not included in these results (after all, it is the only official speed "category")

marin my man, what happened, was it a windsurfing injury? i hope you are all right. last night it was pretty heavy here around pula, trees were flying... when the bora started around 19h i went to check out the "secret" speed spot below marlera. but is not that good, the shore is too high - if you get too close it is too gusty, when you are further away there is a nasty chop. gotta search some more.

when i headed back home downwind the wind was already so strong that i almost had trouble getting back. luckily nothing broke and when i reached the shore from where i started it was already dark. but the moon was shining sooo nicely ;)

yap, the bora came in pretty suddenly and very strong...

 

 

Jan


North
Croatia
5323 days ago

Congrats Vladan!

Great average, not to mention alpha...

 

Too bad about the boom, I hate when this happens. It seams we had a lot of these bummers this year. It happened to Marin in Karin, me in Sabunike, you in Liznjan...

 

Anyway looking forward to explore some new flat spots soon....do you know about the Paska solana idea?

 

Bye you all!

 

 

 

Marin


North
Croatia
5323 days ago

@Vladan, I had dislocated my jaw just when went to bed and yawned. I know it sounds funny but it is an old injury and I had to rush to emergency to fix it, so I didn't like to take any chances tommorow.

Great score btw, excellent aplha and 5/10, one mile is also very good considering 4 jibes Smile...

I am also glad that you have checked Marlera, so search for perfect spot continues.

I also wondered why there isn't 500 m category in table...

 

@Jan, maybe we should change our booms to carbon versions because now most of the time we are sailing overpowered, right?

Adi


South
Croatia
5323 days ago

Great numbers, Vladan! Average is awesome, and alpha just great! I see that you will (as expected!) bring new quality to Aeolus!

Today I did 500 even better - 31,654! Maybe Ben should consider including 500 in scores. I can imagine that it is complicated, but maybe somwhere in the future...

Jan


North
Croatia
5323 days ago

Hey Marin, after I broke my second boom (in Vrsi begining of the year if you remember) I changed to carbon booms.

So I am using North platinum boom for bigger sails NS Slalom 7.8 and RAM F8 9.0 and monocoque carbon hybrid for smaller ones Warp 6.8...

 

Hopefully it will hold....

Vladan Desnica


South
Croatia
5323 days ago

marin, i use only full carbon booms (for slalom), so that did't help. carbon booms also break.

ok, i did some modifications on the boom's head (made it a big wider to compensate for my modest height) so maybe that was the reason in this case...

Warrior


North
Croatia
5321 days ago

Great Ogi, your first excellent post and great scores

welcome to team

Terry A


Sth Is
New Zealand
5321 days ago

Hi Ogi   

Welcome to the teams .

    Try C3   fins    very good in rough water   always use at least 2cm larger than other fins.

evets


WA
Australia
5321 days ago

Welcome Ogi, nice alpha considering the other speedsCool

Adi


South
Croatia
5321 days ago

Wellcome Ogi! Nice to have you aboard!

Yes, check alpha - looks huge, considering other scores... If it is corect, it is real achivement!

evets


WA
Australia
5321 days ago

I assumed he is a good sailorCool

Warrior


North
Croatia
5321 days ago

Ogi will need to edit the post.

@500 is 15.359

and score he put in is 500 met run, 21.67

Many users first time put 500m instead @500, so we are there to check it out

fairplay before everything, right

nebbian


WA
Australia
5321 days ago

Thanks for fixing that up Ogi Smile

Nothing worse than accidentally putting up a big number and then not being rewarded with PB's when you do actually go faster than you've gone before!

Hope to see lots more posts from you!  Laughing

evets


WA
Australia
5321 days ago

sorry to see the Alpha was too high, it looked greatFrown

The good news Ogi is that as you get better you will be rewarded by new pbs each timeCool.

It took me quite a while to get the hang of the software for analysing the gps data. I used GPSAR initially and I really struggled with some errors, particularly now I think about it with Alphas, but now use I Realspeed and for me it works better.

Warrior


North
Croatia
5321 days ago

@evets, now you struggle with your avatar Laughing

most of us use GPS Results v6 for analysis, and it is very easy to read Cool

no prob with alpha, important is that we noticed that and make right

Ogi


North
Croatia
5320 days ago

Morning, sorry for that mistake with alfa, as I said "still leraning", mistake corrected. Hope to make new session on Sunday 6th. NE wind

(Bura) in Karin. I m trying to set up my Falcon 104 for speed and hope to make some improvements when I change the fin & a wave sail

that I m using now when going out on Bura. I found Simmer 2XC 2008 6.0 on closeout list in shop in Split. Has anybody tryed that sail?   

Warrior


North
Croatia
Adi


South
Croatia
5320 days ago

Do not worry, Ogi. I did it also in my first post! :-)))

See you in Karin!

Marin


North
Croatia
5320 days ago

Looks like a Sunday could be a perfect day in Karin. Hope to come Cool... Maybe we can witness Pierre breaking 40 kts in Croatia Yell...

Adi


South
Croatia
5320 days ago

Why not you, Marin? Or, maybe we can do it together? :-) I am ready now. At the begininig of season I was not, but now - I know it can be done - it is just a matter of having some luck and catch right gust and have relativly flat route ahead... But, it can be done, for sure!

Vladan Desnica


South
Croatia
5319 days ago

Hi Ogi, welcome from me too!

But just a question... now your 1 hour score is exacctly as your @alpha, is that correct?

 

Ogi


North
Croatia
5319 days ago

OK, i think this is finnaly done, I had to edit also 1 hour result, to 0.00  Sorry all but I think I got it now and such mistakes want happen again. Hope to improve everything after this weekend. I ll try in Karin but if Bora gets too strong I ll go to Srima to try there. Bora is there a bit smoother not so gusty and flat is quite OK.  Chears

Marin


North
Croatia
5319 days ago

Ogi, don't worry, it takes a while to get used to read and post correct data, but it is a great fun. I am glad to see Aeolus grow. Now, we have another fast sailor, Dalen Cool. I think that in a little while, we are going to be pretty serious contestants for top places Tongue out...

 

Marko Sekulic is thinking about joining Boreas team, that would also be great!