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Tabou Thunder 80cm & JP Weed 42cm & JP SS 45cm Tabou manta 54. Elmo Chopbuster 28cm, NP RSR Eiii 7.8m

The plan was today to have anoher day working on my waistline, woke up no wind, waited around still no wind, played on the playstation still no wind, phone rings for a custommer requiring some gear, look out the window and theres wind, 3 hours later....... I'm finally on my way to the run for a first thing at 1230 waistline session.

Rigged up with the pointer taped up my foot and went out, quite junky but sailed over to Claudesville where it wasn't to bad apart from some lines of weed, sail back and my feet and in particular my ankles are screaming at me start sailing back and I hit a huge clumps of weed and almost go over the front and eventually have to stop and shed the weed, sail back over and theres lines of weed floating along the surface creating havoc with my fin, so I start sailing back with the same results for my feet and ankles except it's getting worse, limp back to base to change fin to a weedy look at phone, 7 missed emails and 2 missed calls for the callout job 1-1/2 hours 6 phone calls and 5 emails later I can go back out, so I sails back over to Claudesville thunkin I'll hide over here where it's nice and flat and bang out some distance as far away from my f'ken phone asd possible, lo and behold Claudesville is now a washine machine with rebound chop all over the place apart from one little bit near the shallows, did a couple of runs and the winds starting to realy pick up decide that the feet have had enough and it's time to head back.

So I heads back, did I mention the winds picked up?? weeeellllllll fark me sideways it's f'ken windy it's f'ken choppy and I've just about had enough of Ken that I want to throw him on the Barbie, 8.6km of full on, hang on, teeth jaring, chop hopping, butt clenching all the while with my back foot screaming at me from the first km back, extremely happy that Huey couldn''t find a plate to serve my freckle up to me on.

Got back to base extremely sore to find Hardz going to bang out a Naughty, so thought I'd bung the Manta on the sail, How bad could it be in reality nt to bad, the naughty was stuffed up with two unhooks mid run. tacked back up wind to get back to basto have another try, whilst waiting the wind picks up the front of the sail flipping it over the tailend of the boom where a loud "crack" was to be heard with a broken batten the result that's it I've had enough I'm packing it in before something else goes wrong.

Derigging thought I'd remove the Batten so I can fix it tomorow, as I'm removing the first section I feel the stab of "oh shit that hurts" and find a 10mm carbon fibre stuck in my thumb, which I can see enough to know what it is but without my granny specs can't see well enough to remove when my folks told me about masterbation they weren't lieing.

There are good day's and there are great days, today's session I shall look on philisophically as one which makes me appreciate the others.

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went to Liptons for a bit of a blast today, wanted to check how it is in lowish tides.

Bit of a walk out but there's still plenty of flat water accessable. Not real happy with my speeds today, seeing as Strop was getting lots of 40s, and yoyo got a 38, I only had the one 35 on the dial and a handful of 34s.

I used 48cm board with the 5.8, (same size as Stroppo!) so I shouldn't have been underpowered.

I did have another try of the 50/60deg 20cm weedy, this may be part of the problem, was getting me upwind in flat water no worries, but I was finding the choppy stuff unpleasant. Stroppo says my board trim looked too flat with too much of it in the water.

May be I'm just too light to counteract the downforce of the 1.8?????

Is this why I seem to go faster with a smaller sail?

There's room to move the mast track back further, but that made the chop even harder to handle.

Hmm, more wind forecast tomorrow, may be able to have a bit of a play.

Had time for an early afternoon blast today before Xmas party engagement with love of my life and snot gobblers. Wind had not really filled in but I got to try out my Xmas pressie. Absolutely awesome.Will post more later-cant wait for tomorrow.:-)

Cervantes, WA, AU. First time I've been able to do this event. It was great! We had to wait until mid afternoon for the wind to come in last Saturday. Big gear was the order of the day. I rigged my 7.6 mtr TR7 Maui Sails. 95 ltr slalom board and a weedie worked well. Great to see a lot of sailors there and a good time had by all! I'll be back!