Coodanup, WA, AU

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Rigged for what l was hoping for but should have rigged bigger. A pleasant day at Coodanup none the less.

Coodanup, WA, AU CA63 LRB5.6 Pepe 17 Sunny moderate breeze. With the occasional fresh gust, less than yesterday during the time I was on the water. Low tide flat water. A cruisy session and not as many people as yesterday. Still good fun..

Coodanup, WA, AU

easy sailing in light winds and smoooth water. Good company as well.

Another fun day at Fangys, lighter than yesterday, so a bit slower.

Used the same gear, 60cm board 5.7 speed and 19cm@55.

Went for some alpha practice, still having a bit of trouble getting going again after the gybe.

Thought Fangy had a fin fail, but suspect he was just changing fins. left a bag tied to the grumpy nuts post.

Found out my fitness isn't improving, was starting to get tired after 15km, so called it.

I want to recover for Thursday.

Tabou Manta 71, NP RSR Evo XV 7.4m, Elmo SS 37.5cm

Short sail on fading breeze.

Nice to wash to work off.

Coming home from my morning Tightarse Tuesday petrol run, I saw Rob was already on the water. Honestly, I am beginning to wonder if he ever actually goes home. I scoffed some lunch, hooked up the trailer and headed down to see no one at all at the Nairns end. Just Rob the Human Metronome going back on forth. By the time I hit the water, a few punters had wandered out through the crabs and cobblers up at Wamba. Pretty shortly thereafter, the usual suspects plus a few more joined the scenic tour of the paddocks on a cruisey afternoon. 

I took at satchel of fins out to the Grumpynuts marker so I could easily swap between the various lemons and lemonade. I was concerned that someone would mistake it for a bag of Methandurah’s finest, but I didn’t expect the culprit to be Cap’n Calm.

The fins were Kermit the Ugly green FF22  10% thickness as the benchmark for a couple of TPU efforts. (TPU is a rubbery type of print material) The TPU fins were underwhelming, perhaps the best of them was a delta type, but overall they would be better suited to a much smaller board/sail combo to evaluate. 

The end result was $10 low tech ugly Kermit wins again. 

Aside from that, there were some beaut little patches of water to glide across, the sun was shining, the water just Goldilocks and most of all, I dodged BullyBoyFatBasil.

Top Ten Fangy Day fa’shizzle. 

AtomicFangyBarge 150l  Avalon 7.0  FF22 Ugly Kermit and friends