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Well that blew the cobwebs out, along with a number of muscles and joints that have been in hibernation. There seemed to a good-sized circus of gainfully underemployed on the water, the usual suspects from the WASTed,  plus a number of keen commuters along with the mighty MH Mobbers.  I reckon pretty much all of them will give it a worthy Google review: good wind, good weed, and enough water for an inside run if you wanted.

I was keen to make a start on testing my stash of bizarre prototype fins. The first on the board today was an 21 cm 8% chord with a massively over developed fillet.

Its performance was a poor return for the time and effort put into its creation. At best, it’s just plain weird. Its lift is low and on the plus side it is surprisingly slippery… up to a point. Once the speed is In the high twenties, you can feel the board harden up as it rides on the fillet Vee. Very soon after, it ventilates itself catastrophically, and you end up with a backside cleaner than any Japanese toilet could dream to provide.

Once I grew tired of the colonic therapy, I went in to change to my trusty old FF24 printed clone. What a difference! The fin was a bit big for the conditions and too draggy in the weed to be thinking of bragging rights, but totally benign in its handling. But of course by that stage I was getting overpowered and underwhelmed by any sign of fitness, so I had to cut it a bit short and save something for the next few days. Top Ten Fangy November is on the cards despite today's solar storm interrupting my GPS signals and losing all my 40 knot plus runs...

Coodanup, WA, AU Best conditions so far this season.God company .Good sailing 

  Coodanup,  fangys,  

Yep...   that was a good arvo sail in the weedy goodnes, but did get tiring at the end ,and nearly came off in the midle of the thick weed.   

    Had the old wintec kinetic, 5.8 ka kon, with 50- 17cm weedy.                

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Another fun fangy session.

A few of us launched at Wamba st, wasn't too bad, the rest seemed to come from John st, probably less of a walk out, but a longer upwind run in chop.

I made a good choice today, 55cm board, 5.7 speed and 17cm@55deg.

Didn't actually blast through the weed bank, but it was possible at speed in a chanel. A few times I missed a channel I went through sideways.

From Wamba st looked like the speed bank was long enough for a NM, so I tried it, but ran into chop towards the end of the run.

However, there was a great 2s section on the inside of the weed bank, very flat at optimum angle, as you can see from my tracks.

note, all the 10s runs are in the same place, that's my top speed spot.

Improved my over 80 2s and 5X10, got to be happy with that.