15-22kts W then 25-30kts W Peel st Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU level .217

6.2mOD - 80ltre iso- 18cm FF then

 70ltre patrick - 18FF then 16kestrel

First 1.30hr plus was a bit patchy. The gusts were good but I probably would have been better on the 87. Came in for lunch and thought about going out on the 87ltre and 6.6m but then decided I'd do an Andrew.. I really wanted to try the new toy so even though I thought I'd only get a few gusts I went back out with the 70ltre.

Wow the wind actually came in more consistently for once!  I was told to use the 16cm kestrel in the 70ltre but I've never liked them so i took the 18cm FF out..It didn't like that at all! Slide sideways..I may not have been set up properly but by now I was pretty tired so came in and plugged in the Kestrel.. Much better! 

I'd been out for 3hrs by now and was pretty stuffed but I got a good feel for things.. I can slog along on it ok ( so long as it's deep enough to slog start)..It's a buzz bearing away! I kept being tempted downwind which was a pain as I will need to get used to getting the board and kestrel  upwind when not fully powered.

First gybe I would have made but I ran aground, second I killed the speed but made it ok ( it's nice to know I don't need to be doing fully planing ones to suceed  ). The next I overthought the narrowness and ended up stepping on my other foot as I tried to change feet..After that I was getting too tired to try.

I'm looking forward to a nicely powered 20kts to get used to it. It really kicked in then and I did a few runs but then figured I was an accident waiting to happen and might end up in the trees so I came in. It felt very fast and I got a 32kts on the way in and I was very impressed with the kestrel holding in the bigger chop..must be the narrow tail of the 70ltre..The front harness line was too far back and by the time i got in my forearm tendons  felt stretched and dead so I called it a day.

 It was blowing 25-30 by now. Their should be some good speeds from the others.

Looking forward to having another go when I'm fresh.

 Lots out - Rus , Mick , Norm , Andrew , Greg , Byron , Lyd's , Jeff , Bruce and others. My sail had so much salt on it i couldn't see through it which was a bit scary checking before I gybed. I've just rinsed it  now.

 I think the 70ltre will end up a favourite once I'm used to it.

Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU

CA 110 / Warp 7.0/ kestrel 22 then Isonic 90/Warp6.3/tribal delta 18. Fun day for first day of R and R

Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU

The quick and the dead, may I rest in peace.

RS1, 6.6, 17 MUF.

Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU

CA44, 6.3m, 18cm Lessacher

Started off woeful and gradually improved. Unfortunately by the time the wind came in I was too tired to cash in.

The weed has formed into some very dense clumps which caused many a scary moment.

Posted from GT31 as the GW60 went flat.

Sailed with 3 Devices today

GT31, GW60 and Garmin Fenix 3. The Garmin was great as I could wear it on my wrist. During the session it showed very similar results to the GT31 and GW60, it was within 0.1 kts. But when I compared the results out of KA72 the Garmin was 0.5 kts higher then the other 2.

Budgewoi Lake, NSW,

6.2 sl91 18 kestral.

was rigging looking at it, sue had 6.2 on so 7m it should hav been, luckey went with 6.2.

blowin great a bit later, picked up sweet. great place to sail, had a few stacks but u hav to

pay for the pb's some how. mick johny lyds geoff greg sue bruce & i missed a few.

carnt wait for the weekend.

Did that box of toys turn up steve, bring them on the weekend.

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Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU

falcon 89 and CA44, s2 venom 7,those short fins that spin out.

started out shit had to use 89 slalom board got beter and best was when I had to go tork finaly blew did my top speed going in last thing only needed another 5 min and would have been doing the sweet 40. still good sail before going to work.