F>>>>>>>>>K you are on fire boyyyyys , I am getting a bit jealous here...

I am totally in awe of those speeds on the ocean.

If possible please would someone post a google earth image. I thought the chop on the estuary was challenging 

Well done slowey impressive, and thanx for the empathy and advice!!!!

here is the shot of my meagre attempt today,perth city centre is top right corner.

melville,pelican point and pt walter are the place marks.

Steve the chop close to melville launch is horrendous and very confused the chop softens and becomes more uniformed swells as you approach majestics point,i estimate this morning the swell approaching  a meter in height.

keep in mind the swell is running with the wind so you can pick a fast line along through the troughs.

You guys deserve medals for do those speeds in the Swan Ocean

see if you can spot the green 38.8 segment in that...

That's some fast looking rice vermicelli Chris.

Well done mate!

Looks like Claude has got home and dozed off after sailing about 356 km in one day [all on a carton of choc milk]!!

How many Kilometers??????

If what you say is true then make sure he keeps the tracks for his Guiness world record

358

you guys... I reckon it was more like 600 and if he didnt have to go off and play some other game later he would have pounded out another 200kms or more. Claude is a machine.

Oh Gawd - what have I started - the Commissioners of Guinness will be on to me!

It's just my estimate given Claudes tenacity and capacity, and noticing how hard he was going at 8.00 am when I left!!!!!

Wait for him to post!!

Claude a Machine?  I knew it, I knew it!!!!!! However, I think that disqualifies him, no humanoid robots allowed, we might have to deduct all Claude's sessions from the SRM

anyone got a metal detector?

for the distance

for the speeds in the chop

for the 32kt nautical mile through biiig chop

for the speed at which emoticons now appear on the GTC site!

Thanks for the images of where you sailed chris and Steve, I can see green numbers in the scribble, it illustrates realy well for me the angle to which I need to bear away, really is a long way from a reach (looks as though the wind was pretty much westerly and the speed runs head north east. Is that correct?

Slowie, to use images that are bigger than 700 px across, please click on the tree icon above, then click on the little icon to the right of image url, and follow the prompts to upload the image.

This resizes the image so it doesn't break the page layout...

Almost forgot, congrats on some super speeds... I have no idea how you did that on the swan ocean 

Balls!

Furken huge Hard ones

Awesome

Super efforts Chris and Claude, and Snides too.

The suspense was killing us Claude - sorry mate - imagination!

Melville Beach is the only decent place you can sail Perth [on slalom/speed gear] in a westerley ,or a few degees either side. It is a vicious choppy place at times, with about two miles of nasty river fetch. However, if you come unstuck you drift in to the grassy or sandy shoreline. Chris learned to sail there I think!

To go fast in these conditions you have to hook into a gust and drive deep through the troughs. It takes mental steel to do it and hold it all together in the biggest gusts. It takes even more to hold it for 1852m.

Great going team. I was at my desk when you were roaring!!

PS - please dont bugger up the page anymore Chris - I have a zipper down the right of screen!!

me too!! I reckon its like a speed stripe

Yay! No more speed stripes