SA Speed Demons (SA, Australia) - 2011-10-29
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Norman Clarke
29.48(T)
27.77(T)
8.51(T)
18.02(T)
23.91(T)
16.55(T)
Full Bogan
34.489(D)
33.17(D)
20.48(D)
21.88(D)
27.845(D)
162.25(D)
Captain skip bogan
33.599(D)
32.203(D)
20.613(D)
21.512(D)
28.619(D)
105.05(D)
Retired Bogan
26.22(D)
24.47(D)
5.87(D)
15.18(D)
19.15(D)
20.68(D)
Tricky Bogan
29.23(D)
27.79(D)
0(D)
0(D)
0(D)
40.2(D)
PJ
32.77(D)
29.28(D)
19.25(D)
20.75(D)
25.83(D)
383.59(D)
Dave M
27.27(D)
26.1(D)
11.39(D)
17.27(D)
22.28(D)
24.63(D)
Chris Reiffel
Joe
Dr Duck
Dazz
Kym Manning
Ricky Hamood
Kaz
Dee
Warren Mudge
PK
Hayden M
danny
Pineapple
Stan
Average34.0432.6920.5521.7028.23272.92
Norman Clarke (4257km):
4534 days ago

A short session after 8 week stint overseas. Will need to work on fitness again.

Oh and i broke the boom.  Embarassed The runs were great and very enjoyable until the rig and I parted company.   Smile



Full Bogan (42931km):
4534 days ago
5 categories
Today was my first day out for about a month. Had a great session with all the crew in the early afternoon. Came in for a break at three an was surprised to see everyone packing up. Lucky carl rocked up and went for a sail with me. Got all my speeds early. Although the numbers may not show it carl kicked my ass today. The afternoon sesh I managed only about 31.8 knots while carl was getting 33s. Also across wind he was a knot or two faster. Think I was a little underpowered on the 6 hot sail. Carl looked real good on his loft. I just couldn't get any real drive. Maybe should have had the 7 loft on:-( Anyway fun day, good drags with carl even if I did loose. Gear: 6 metre hot sail gps on 89 falcon the switched to 111 falcon. Also tried out a 35 black project speed fin. Have to say felt good. Very similar to my 33 sl7 select. Think Pete is doing distance at George today so look out for some good distance. Good luck Pete

Captain skip bogan (50090km):
4534 days ago
3 categories

Had to go to 90th birthday lunch so on the water after 4pm.  Apparantely the water was flatter before i got outCry.  Started out 13 - 18 knots so i decided to use 6.3 blade and isonic 86 - just powered but not fully lit up.  Had some close match racing with Sam - great funSmile.  Managed my peak on this kit and best 10 sec.  Sam suggested we change to bigger boards - so he could hopefully kick my arseWink.  By the time we got on the water it had picked up to 15 - 20 knots and again we had some racing togetherSmile.  Closer racing this time.  We did a 4 km run together and managed a couple of nautical runs - pretty choppy in the middle.  Great afternoon cruising with Sam and hopefully have some more late arvos when the seabreezes kick.... 

PS. I don't know why everyone packed up Sam and me sailed till almost pitch black and was still blowing 15 - 20 knotsSurprised.

Boggy lake - 15 - 20 knots.

Isonic 86 / 6.3m loft blade and 33cm sl7. Hour, peak and best 10 sec on this kit.

Fanatic falcon 102 / 6.3m loft blade and 35cm sl7.  Nautical and other 4 best 10 second runs on this kit.

 



Retired Bogan (6747km):
4534 days ago

Boggy Lake, SA, AU  Great Saturday at Boggy 15-20k.  5.7 NP 103l F2. South westerly, bit up and down at times but pretty good



Tricky Bogan (21417km):
4533 days ago

Sailed Stansbury with Jason rigged 5.8 on forcast but was underdone all session, 14-17knts  first of the south easterly breeze felt like the start of the sea breeze fior the season, sailed the incomming tide had a great session need to do abit of tuning but did manage to string a series of jibes together. Having a shitty time with the GT-31 did not record to card properly had to recover again :-( looks like time for a new sd card.Cry



PJ (24612km):
4533 days ago
1 categories

 

29-10-11 Lake George SSE to S 12-26 knots-7.8m+JP Slalom VI68+C3 Sting2 40cm-6.3m Loft Balde+Fanatic SL111+Select S11 35cm

Arrived day before, waking up to the sound of (music) breeze though the Tea Tree's. Rigged up x2 rigs and boards and smacked the water by around 7am. The wind started SSW and slowly tracked to a S'ly direction by days end. Cloudy with some showers during the day which was nice to wet the face and hands but fogged up my glasses. There was one major squall in whick I couldn't see jack shit but after a few hundred k's you sort of knew where you were heading!

Started with 7.8m Loft Bade with JP, sailing around to the Northern side of the spit. Blow me on my first starbord tack at speed with the sun directly in my eyes I smacked into one of only 5 clumps of floating weed. Major catapault, I really did see stars straight after with subsequent major boom bend, it was wrecked and I was pissed. Sailable back to launch site. Session ended 30 mins.

Standing there looking whether to change boom from 6.3m to 7.8m and thought wtf I'll go out on my 6.3m Bade on Fanatic. As it turned out I probably would have been blown out on my 7.8 and the sweet spot was probably a 7m that I dont have.

Sailed upwind on 6.3m doing 2 km legs for an hour then headed downwind to Northern side of spit and longer legs. First few runs pretty cautious through weed areas that you can sail between but as the sun rose in elevation spotting up was easy.

During the day the wind was at times patchy especially after squalls, drifting around glugging and waiting for the wind to kick in. Another phenomena is the weed slowly rises to the surface during the day, catching weed fequently. Solution was to sail right of the small island.

Saw a couple people on the water one of which I could swear was going to get blown downwind and was really worried for. A begginer intermediate who knows enough to get into trouble! He was on 7.7m biggish guy continually stacking. Hell I was 6.3 and powered mostly.

Towards the end of the day without the clouds and sunnies I would have been absolutely blinded by the sun! Running out of daylight with my hands pretty well butchered! I headed back knowing I was so so close to 400kms but with no light I had to call it a day!

Other than wrecking my boom it was a good day for distance sailing. My hours were crap due to weed and or non-planing at times but in a strange sort of way I enjoyed it allCool Would you?????

 

 



Dave M (3969km):
4533 days ago

Goolwa Lake, SA, AU JP Slalom 68, KA Knocept 6.6, Select Slam Elite 35, Wind: S 17-22

Good fun sail, wind picked up a bit but rather than changing sails, i just pulled the out haul on and killed the sail.

should have changed as the sail didn't work as well, too flat, felt slow.



Comments
Captain skip bogan


SA
Australia
4533 days ago
Well done PJ - almost your 400 goal:-) sounds like an interesting day.
Hardie


WA
Australia
4533 days ago

Sensational PJCool

Full Bogan


SA
Australia
4533 days ago
Awesome effort Pete. I could only imagine how hard it would have been. My 400 was in great conditions. Planning whole time averaging 24 knots for the whole distance. To go out there and glug and bend a boom in up and down conditions takes something else. You truly are mad. How long were you on the water for excluding breaks, broken gear?
ray gun


WA
Australia
4533 days ago

WOWSurprised marathon man great work.

Tricky Bogan


SA
Australia
4533 days ago

Another session by the PJ machine soo close to the 400 & I was tired enought after my 40k's Embarassed

Choco


SA
Australia
4533 days ago

sweet PJ

Ricky Hamood


SA
Australia
4533 days ago

Well done PJ excellent effort.

evets


WA
Australia
4533 days ago

Fantastic effort and write up PJ, really sorry to see you could not get the 400. Breaking a boom is a ubgger but the change down in sail may have helped the final total. I look forward to seeing when it all comes together and you get the 400+ Cool. Yyou asked at the end whether others would have enjoyed it... I certainly wouldSmile. Hope the hands heel quickly.

 

Kaleb Smith


TAS
Australia
4533 days ago

Big effort PJ! Welldone!Cool

Jez


TAS
Australia
4533 days ago

Nice Distance PJ, great work Smile

Dave M


SA
Australia
4533 days ago

Great stuff PJ..

amazing effort

Jacques van der Hout


S
Netherlands
4533 days ago

Wow, you did already 3 big distances this month, duracel bateries? Well done!

Vando


QLD
Australia
4533 days ago

crazy Pete well doneCool

evets


WA
Australia
4533 days ago

Jacques makes a great point, 3 over 200 in a month, 2 over 300 in a monthSurprisedCool

Any wind tomorrow Peter?Laughing

Hamma


SA
Australia
4533 days ago

Top stuff Pete!!!

PJ


SA
Australia
4533 days ago

Jacques - this is my last month off before returning to work so I put the big efforts in:-) Being a plodder and generally much slower on avergae speeds I wanted to see how long I could sail. Had a few stops, carrying a backpack with lunch and water. I recon 400kms is not beyond my skill level...

Sam - Started at 7am finished at 7.30 pm. Possibly 90 mins for food breaks and non-planing. Many stretches of barely planing to.

Evets - A windsurfers hands are things of beauty! Will be good as in no timeLaughing Give me 2 week break and I'll be looking for another distance session.... 400 kms is my goal... Yeah I didn't realise how many k's I've clocked this month!!

Thanks all for the positivesSmile A great community here.

Jimbob


VIC
Australia
4533 days ago

Smile Well done again pete, bad luck I missed sailing with you again as went to melb to pick up boys from bali.

On days off now and forcast dosen't look goog at all,

The weed coming up to the sunshine during the day is a usual thing for lake george, soon it will be right up in the arvo's in big long strips and then foam gets stuck on it and can be glass water for 10 feet out, the best feeling only hearing your fin in 25 knots.

you will really need to look at some weedies to sail there from now on. I have no trouble up or downwind no spin out and good speed from the JP weedies, I had a 36 in the last time we sailed remember.

Yetti from seabreeze sent me a pm saying he was going to be there sat so I would say he was the learner you seen.

the other might have been Bert and his mate from Hamilton across the border but has a shack at Beachport, he is actually in our team but I don't think he has postd a score yet (safari 1970), He also had his 60th birthday show last weekend so we now have another legend in our team. I will help him out with his gps next time I see him.

Good luck on the 400 queat, by January you can sail to 9pm no worries.

bushfire


NSW
Australia
4532 days ago

Fantastic distance Pete! I would have to take a week off (doing anything) with that sort of distance. Inspires me to try harder (or sail longer!)Smile

Kimba


SA
Australia
4532 days ago

PJ the Terminator, you're a Machine!