Peel Inlet, WA, AU

OD6.2, M95, Pepe20

60cm board, 6.2Koncept 20cm@55deg deltoid fin.

Arrived at Wamba St, with not much wind or water, but plenty of smooth. wasn't long befote Steve, Gloria and Basil arrived, we watched the wind slowly build and the tide creep in.

I was hoping to use the 23@40/60, but tide was still too low when I launched. Should havemdone it anyway, wasn't long before depth and thus chop increased. Just couldn't get totally comfortable like I was the other day.

May have been downhaul problem as my winch broke, and I could only downhaul by hand. Sail looked OK I thought, but More downhauly have been better.

1 categories

Tabou Manta 71, NP RSR Evo-XV 7.4m, Elmo SS 42cm.

After two days of blessed respite, my old mate came back to party, spent most of the morning trying to sleep him off but to no avail.

Got down to the run which showed lots of promise but no enthusiasm from my perspective as I sat feeling sorry for myself in the shade.

Eventually I got of my freckle and rigged, the wind didn't look as if it had gotten stronger so went with the same kit as the last two days, which knowing Cheryl and Snides were ripping around on >6m sails on wave boards should realy have given my two brain cells the rough idea there was more wind out there than what it looked.

Went out, short jumpy run out to the channel markers to figure out that my new footstraps were not adjusted properly. Sail back, quick tweak then of through the lumpy goodness.

Sailed an +8km leg into Claudesville where there appeared to be quite a bit of breeze over there as the sail was getting to be a bit of a handfull and the board was getting a bit flighty in places.

The plan was to hang around over in Claudesville and enjoy the flats and try and bang out an hour, unfortunately the breeze was getting the better of me as my head had about 4.5mins delayed reactions to events and was feeling quite sketchy, so one short run in Claudsville had me heading back to base.

The run back was hard work.

In hindsight the 6.5m and 100L board would've been a better choice, but realistically doubt I would've been much better.

1 categories

KAR 7m, JP102L + FF22

Another SE which looked like it was going to switch to the E but that was a trap. As soon as Maree & I went back out it went back to the SE.

4 categories

Great day at  Peel Inlet with Rob, Boz and Ant. CA 92L OD 7 and Pepe weed speed 21.

Coodanup, WA, AU

My last day to sail as n 82 year old. Lovely day for it in benign conditions . Good company . Good sailing'