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Little refresher course at Wallyworld and Later Melville

New sails feel great

Sonic 85, Ram F12 5.7/6.3

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Rocked up at Melville to see Scarrgo coming in raving about the conditions.

Rigged the 5.7 on the Lorch and bandit 30 skinny.

Couple of short upwind runs before a blast down to Majestic for the mile. A bit underpowered at the start but nicely lit through the troughs at the end.

That was when the wind swung and dropped

Slow work back upwind and called it quits to head for Wallyworld with JJ and Scarrgo.

Joined by Wog and good blasts coming through as we rigged. Typical gusty Wallyworld with one sweet gust on the old girl coming back down the bar.

LB7,S100,GW32 (magic combo)

You might have told us you were going sailing Snake! Nice numbers though and welcome back

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Point Walter, WA, AU

Fun sail with Sean, Mark and Wog at Wallyworld - as expected, very off and on. 

Isonic 76, Code Red 7m, C3 Sting 28

Melville Beach, WA, AU

started the day at melville then migrated to wally world when the wind swung had the old sonic out for some fun

really angry with myself now cause i thought i had a couple of smoking NM's in at melville, i went right from the sticks on the bank to just about majestic point but now i checked my NM calculation includes a shody gybe and some daudling upwind for a couple 100 metres 

needed to go just past majestic to get the full run, i can only dream of how good it would have been if it didn't have a gybe and upwind chilled sailing in it

struggled at wally world just to get sailing was so knackered from the last 3 days sailing and the morning

the sonic performed very nicely in the chop out from melville in the morning and in that bouncy stuff i recon it was quicker than the 76 isonic

but the sonic was a absolute pig to gybe had to push so hard to get it around, everytime i forgot i needed to go in full boar it threw me off even up at the flat water of point walter, but then again when you did push hard enough to get it to go around it went around super fast and exits were incredible none of this pumping nonsense i was scrambling to try and get into the footstraps as it was already back up to top speed

5.0 koncept, 6.2 reflex, 76 isonic, 85 sonic, 30 jp sl, 32cm pointer ?

Melville Beach, WA, AU

I wouldn't have thought it was possible to get skunked today, but there you go.

Although still tired and sore from yesterday I decided to set aside my habit of not sailing on consecutive days and try some different combos to find one that works in high wind. So I took my Futura and my two biggest sails out of the car and put in two small sails and the three smallest boards. Departure was delayed by unexpected guests, but it was still blowing when I left home. One rain squall later there was calm at the river and the biggest gear I had was my 85L board and 5m sail.

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Got there in the afternoon, after the big wind, but still some. And plenty of weed! Catapaulted on pointer fin, then changed to weedy. Iso 76 then 101 with 5.8 Koncept. 

Pinnaroo Point, iSo 94, Ezzy 7.0

Just a quicky before the wind and light faded...

The water was sloppy, the rain was stinging my face, the wind was variable... but fk it was good!