Melville Beach, WA, AU

Coolrider 160 litre 4.2m2 NP Zone

Getting used to the harness and doing beach starts.

Pelican Point, WA, AU

Nice gentle wind, fairly consistent. Still choppy in the middle because of the yatch racing.

Xfire 114, Turbo 7.5, 34 weedy.

Managed two fully planing gybes, quite pleased on the big gear and lightish wind.

Marcel was just going out as I came in, so hope he got a sail.

4 categories

Carlisle St, Safety Bay, WA, AU

Might have been a bit more wind than forecast, but sadly i had to leave as it picked up to get to work on time. Mainly did some long runs. Bit lumpy today and not quite enough water on the speed run when i was out.

Great to meet Jake today too. I'm sure you smashed it Jake

RRD xfire 102, reflex2 7.0, c3 stingII 27 weedy

That's more like it! Sunshine and a bit of wind!

Fun session at Dutchies.

S1 5.9, Rider quad 100

3 categories

Safety Bay, WA, AU. Launched at Carlisle st today which is a pretty nice spot. Went for the hour but boom went bang at the 58 minute mark. The trip average was sitting around 23.5 at that stage... Bugger. Sailed in to assess the damage and met Craig on the beach. To our surprise, the boom extension cleat had jumped out of the 206 slot and, under compression, jumped into the 200 slot!!! I assure you this new banana boom was not a great look.

Went back out once I'd readjusted the boom for a few more runs and after about another hour the same POP! boom did it again. I think I may need to start shopping for a replacement cleat assembly.... Fun day all up though. Time for a brew.

Iso 90, RB 7.0, Weedster 32

1 categories

Melville Beach, WA, AU

just managed to delete my earlier post!!

Ill recap!

Went for the hour as instructed on the big gear (127/8.6) on the river. big gear was good river was a bad idea as full of boats and rotten chop.

was aiming for the 22 but just missed out.

hoping Snake smokes a 23 to bring us up to 22 average......come on Jakey i know youve got it in you!!

Pelican Point, WA, AU

8.6 overdrive, 125 Rocket

Fickle wind and really bad chop from all the boats, not the most enjoyable session.

Melville.

Starboard Sonic 295; Ram 7.8; Gorge Gear 36

4 categories

Leighton Beach, WA

Only expected light winds so just had the big Mistral with me - it was great fun (although a handfull at times) in the 15 to 20 knots of wind that we got.

Stoked to get an ocean PB 2 sec and NM on this awesome board. A magic afternoon with Norts on his new Futura.

Mistral 137, KA Koncept 7m, CL SL2 38

Coodanup, WA, AU had a gr8 sail 70w 7.3 hsm gps 24 delta fin   

Melville , iSonic 121 and koncept 7.3

Nice putt around in the sunshine and good to chat with a few people on the beach. Great to see Chris, Jemma and family all having fun. Only thing I noticed today was just how many jelly fish there are about (that tells you how slowly I was going that I had time to look at them).

Melville Beach, WA, AU iS111, 6.4K, 31JP weedy

Quick sail at Melville. Had to wait for my son to bring the car back before I could go sailing, and that left me only enough time to go to Melville. Gusty and holey but warm and sunny. I did really well with the rig flips on the gybes today. Pity there wasn't the board speed to get a good alpha.

Good to catch up with Gemma and Chris, Jeff and GS.

Melville - Isonic 101, CR 7.0, Drake 36.