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What a day, wind all over the place, rigged totally wrong, well done to all those that braved the conditions and got it right.  Congrats to Pepe on his PB!!!!!!  Congrats to Crasher on his stellar performance.  And well done to Elmo!!!!!!  Hope Bender and Decrep did well also.  Great to saiol with Sam again. Spent the first 3 hours in a wet wetsuit, walking my gear around.

F2 Missile 62L 48cm wide, Gaastra Vapor 5m too fucking small, only got going once, and got my fastest the 32.6, put up a bigger board T1 RS59, but wind dropped, and then it came in so strong I could hardly sail and could've used the Missile but was stuck out in Estuary, then just got too late and light was fading, just

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1. sheet in

2. get airborne

3. land

4. return to step 1

sailed alone with 4.5 NP search and JP slalom 84 at safety bay very very short session totally out of control

shoulda gone south

lesacher chamelion failed to spin out even with all the air time

just looked at the graphs and called the "office" the wind at, work is gusting to 50 and the graphs say 40   

What a crazy day!

Started off with many mob members going to Creepy crawleys, wind was wrong direction, so we went to Howards Way.  I rigged quickly and planed out, then the wind just sort of died so I had to do the long walk back.  Evets was the only other one planing, and I foolishly thought I may have top scored on the day with a 21 knot peak.  The wind swung from NW to W to S to SE, all in the space of half an hour.

So we all packed up and went our separate ways to have lunch, only to get a call from Decrepit that it was on again.  He, Bender and I motored back to Creepies and rigged, I put up the 6.8 and was completely overpowered, sheeted out and trying to save my life.  So I downrigged to a 5.0 and then had the same story -- the wind was a solid 25 with decent 30 knot gusts, and still picking up... I've never seen breaking waist high waves in the estuary before.  The floating solid islands of weed didn't help either, if you hit one of those you stop instantly.  This was survival sailing.

We all packed up and headed over to the unpowered boat ramp to see lots of people happily sailing along, Bender was nowhere to be seen, apparently he had "rigged in 5 seconds flat" and was keenly fanging away.  I'd had enough and went home for a nice hot shower... Expect some decent times from the WA boys today, it was insane!  

I'm happy to concede defeat to Mother Nature today, at no time was I comfortable on the water.

Wow, what an insane day, got to creepy's early expecting, as everyone did, a bit of decent wind. After a breif "o-group" decided on LH res, but as luck would have it we stood around warming small patches of the estuary.

After admitting defeat and heading home for lunch, the wind decided to come in....Boy did it ever. Must concur with Nebbs' description of becoming airborne. Rigged 5.4 tush on 110 x-cite ride with a 31cm weedie. Well, @##$ me that worked. Downhauled to the max and outhauled slightly but still overpowered. Tried the chameleon and took off like a cut snake. Spun out once but found the fin easy to get back under control. Definately have a lot of respect for the 30 plus crowd, as I felt I was "on the edge".

Had an ablolute blast and still feel like I have an overpowered sail in my hands

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Isonic 105, Tush 6.5 Raptor

Howards way, good to be in a group of 8 sailors on the beach. As for the conditions: 2 of us planed, and I did 5ks in 3 hours. Nuf said.

Mental note to self: shall spend some time working on unflattering anagrams of 'I am a weather forecaster'

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Have to agree with everybody else, a totally crazy day!

Tried the slice and slide again, this time in the Mandurah mob secret weapon, very overpowered, (you heard Neb's coments on his 5.0, well I had my 5.2 up, same as bender). Fin performed very well thou, on the last mad downwinder, it felt very smooth and stable. Because I was so overpowered, and the weed islands just under the surface, I wasn't game to hook in, just hung on for dear life and hoped.

Have to try this combo again in less extreme conditions, the secret weapon handles the chop better than my wider back board, but it's lack of nose rocker is a tad disconcering in heavy chop.

Disapointed with my alpha, the legal one was an outside gybe to get back upwind, so the legs crossed each other. The one I went for on the inside was 6M too wide, Bum!

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JP Slalom II 84L, NP RS4 6.2m, Ken-Elmo 42º 24cm

Was intimitaded and defeated before I went out knowing full well the 6.2 was way to big for the conditions, struggled a bit with cavitation and chop till I moved mast foot forward.

The 800m swim in when the wind dropped out was a eye opener, all I can say is thank fvck for my floatation vest, 1/2hr in the water is 28mins more than I want to at this type of year.

Hats of to Crasher and Padro for the ownership out there.

Big congrats to Pepe for almost nailing a 30, doing his first maniacle downwind run, creating a mast high splash, then claiming it. Awesome work Paul

The last run in with the squal which caused a white out gave me brown troiusers but there was mo way know this little red muppet was going to swim in again.

Glad at the end of the day to have no bruises

Happy to be back on water after 2 months!

Todpay we had all kind of winds, I picked the arvo SW, not bad beside my 20 mins in water mile away from shore (thought I was going to die there ) waiting for the wind to come back.

The wind was there... the chops too

Nice to catch up with some of the MMs and SRs.

Sonic 52, RS 5.0, 23 Hybrid

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Good to get on the board. Great day had by all. Used a 5.6 Maui tr4 with a 54 tabou manta with a 28 starboard freeride fin.

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Iso86,x-15 5.2m, 27benetic 45deg

NOTE: I HAVE NOW COMBINED BOTH SESSIONS ONE AT CREEPYS AND ONE AT HARDIES.I HAS IMPROVED MY 5X10

hardies run after getting skunked and creepy's. very choppy. missed the best of it. Should have used a bigger fin