Awesome mile Decrepit, well done on that. It was hard as there were often lulls.

Well done guys, congrats on the PB Steve

Good to see you've got your smile back Mike.

Not bad for a cripple Hardz

Very nice Nauties guys! 

Sound like an epic fun session!

Great numbers guys especially the NM's.  Sounds like you beat the heat too.

Nice NMs all, congrats on the PB Steve

How did you fit the mile in?

Nice speeds fellars and well done on the nauty Steve 

Nice session.

Close 5x10 results.

Great start for 2014 Mike, really good NM, best of luck for the year.

Well done Steve! Sounds like you all had a great day of sailing!

Woohoo! Evets!Great naughty PB

Decrepit, still a legend!

Hardie (not a softboy) toughing it out to take the 5x despite injury!

That was great fun, GE track show the mile as the long outer runs (right hand side tracks). To my surprise the mile did not start until I was n with the rest of the tracks, my sailing over the sandy area at the lower right side of screen did not assist.

The 3 mile attempts I did were all faster than my previous pb.

With a bit more wind........ that is next time!

Thanks guys, it was indeed great fun!

JJ as Steve's tracks show, we used the whole of the sandbank, possible because of a high enogh tide.

Keef, yes I had several NM attempts, most of them had holes in the wind at some point in the run. The best one gave me my 2ns highest 2s and just kept blowing all the way.

But the figures do show what an excelent run it is, only 2knots under my 2s and 1kt under my 5X10. The angle to win and, water state over whole run, is very close to optimum.

Fun Sail with you guys yesterday, and some some nice NM's.

Be back here for sure. (with a weedy hopefuully that doesn't catch weed)

Thanks everyone.

I'm not sure if it was the run that I followed you Mike. I did a few.

Had a great time.

Lucky Chris, came in so I could have my turn and someone offered to look after Kaison. He was having a ball and didn't want to stop. Happy happy happy.

Maybe next time we could get someone to look after him for the whole day.

See you on the water.

Thanks Steve and Mike - great to see that there is plenty of distance (some extra metres on either end) there for a good NM on high tide - magic spot...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY mike  and just a bit late for the NM that must have been one hell of a  consistant gust for that naughty

Grats on the PB NM steve

Keith, here's my speed graph and tracks.

Just checked the data on my GPSarPRO, and it gives me a 5XNM average of 31.11 so it was no flash in the pan.

Here's the GE overlay.

The ruler is 2.2km so there's plenty of room.

great stuff mike , have you used the short base 18cm yet , mudskipper got a 38+, and wasnt great conditions useing a 6/0 sail and an old fanatic board in good size chop , he said there is more lift and the fin feels more like a slalom fin

going by your tracks it looks like the fin is working to windward ok and looks like you have got the rite foil ,

Keef, yep used the small one at Liptons a week or so ago, went well, but I wasn't quite comfortable, so I've thinned it down a bit more, haven't tried it since doing that.

Yep, the broad base performs great up and down wind, I've thickened that one up in the middle to get rid of the flat spot. And I now see what you mean about the slight angle you've boxed it at, I'll straighten that up and see if it makes any difference.

Ran it into a very hard bottom on the run that goes the furtherest south, in the above GE image. It found your hidden stainless!

It was in this condition when I got the NM.

I was also getting a lot of weed under the protruding leading edge. I set it up on a different board and didn't check how it fitted the 48. So there's a bit of room for improvement yet.

mike the  stainless is along the whole leading edge the reason why the stainless is hidden is because i built he fin up with glass roveings from 50deg to 47deg to let you see how the fin performs with less rake, then it was up to you to take it back to the stainless with your own foil , oops im sorry about the flatspot

the stainless has aproximately 30 strands of rovings either side so there isnt a reaction between the carbon and stainless, when you finnaly sand down to the stainless and refoil you shouldnt have to much trouble with the fin

pic didnt work ill be back later

Steve - found my tracks from last year - I could have done with going over the sandbar at the start

JJ yep you need to be along the sandbar for the whole NM, but be careful of that southern sand, that's where I ran aground and damaged keith's fin.

Keith, I've taken the fin back to the stainless over the whole length, and bogged up, just sanding and spray puty to go.