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Budgewoi Lake, 

Ca/sl 62 . Warp 6.2 . Pepe 20 . Great session . Good to see alot out having fun 

Budgewoi, NSW, AU.

NW 10-30 kts

FF79, Nuclear 18.5 and Duotone 5.8

Pretty full on session with no real flat water. I wasn't really game to put the foot down in the choppy stuff. 

Still a fun session with quite a few out having a good time.

10-30kts plus WNW - W Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU level 0.32m

 Sailed 10-35 - 11.23 am

 4.6m KA Koncept - 80ltre Isonic - 20cms Atomic

Bleedin terrifying in the gusts! I'm happy with the 2 sec considering it was so full on.

I was the 1st out with  Richard? freeriding. I got there early as it was supposed to strengthen after lunch.

 The 1st strong wind sail since I've been diagnosed with osteoporosis so safety was the brief. It would have been epic if we had any flatwater.

It was a bit patchy at 1st so I was going to rig the 5m Mach but I'd left it at home..  I rigged the 4.6m thinking I'd be underpowered.

I chose the Isonic as it has more volume in the tail and I thought there would be flatwater and  it would be better in the lulls. It's been a few years since I've used it and it had hornets nests in the finbox... I had to make the footstraps bigger once I got down the bottom so I could get in and out easily.

Lucky I went with the 4.6m.. At least I  managed to rig it so it rotated this time. The KA pulleys don't line up but I used the Powerex extension and it had minimal crossover.

Spincter clenching going for it in the 10cm chop "flatwater" and surviving the gusts in the 15cms chop. Crouched right down in survival mode to avoid being thrown over the front. 

I couldn't find any flatwater. I was rounding up and stepping off in the strongest stuff , no gybe attempts. Playing it safe as I can't afford a stack. 

RS1 would have been better in the rough stuff. The iso bounces through it while the narrower Excocet slices through.

I was a bit disappointed with my lack of energy  and had a lot of rests. When I got in the max heartrate was 195 bmp so maybe tiredness was expected..

I was feeling a bit of a whoose thinking it was terrifying but spoke to Greg K and he said he'd done 38kts ( by then) and it was terrifying so that made me feel better. 

 I didn't enjoy it when I was out there but I'm still on an adrenaline high  I survived..phew.. 

I was happy to get in and pack up.

 Everyone else arrived and it swung and died although it may have come up later. Hopefully the Sw tomorrow will be more sedate and there will be some flatwater. 

Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU. CA92, OD proto 5.0, 18 kestrel. You’d think i have a 33kt rookie speed arrester fitted or something hey. Andrew mentioned nauti, looked like a good idea so off we went. Happy with a PB for that, powered for half the run. 
Not quite bigdog peak speed but apparently it was bigdog kind of tucker today and i was was hardly aware on the the sweet 5.0. Having a little chew happily. Kit felt great. Double Huey blessed to have had some epic light and some gusts to shoot the late shift lads charging to finish off the day.