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Hi Johno, good to hear you got out, if only for a bit of a sail.

I got down to Mortimer Bay at 11 AM, just ahead of Steve and rigged the 6.6 SSR on the iSonic 101.  It was blowing about 20 knots and the forecast was for a little more.  All looked good.  Steve arrived and rigged his 6.6 on his iSonic 76.  I headed out first and worked my way upwind in some horror onshore chop, with the cold weather not helping.  Managed to get up into a little bay where I thought I'd get some spped runs in, not expecting much but waiting for Steve so we could start a 1 hr session.  Just about to do an off the wind run and as I started to bear away in flat water and a gust I felt my boom 'click'.  I headed straight to shore (now 5.6 km on the other side of the bay, almost directly upwind from where I had left).  Looked at the boom head and the arm was just hanging on by a small section.  Put a bit of weight on it and it snapped cleaned off!!  Options now were to knock on someones house door to see if they could drive me about 15 km (in wetsuit) back around to where my car was on the other side of the bay or turn the boom upside down and try to sail almost dead downwind in 20-25 knots and hope the other arm of the boom doesn't break.  The later seemed the best idea, despite me being safe on the shore at this stage.  Surprisingly, worked OK.  Managed to make it not too far from where the car was (at times doing over 20 knots), went ashore, flipped the boom back over again (other arm just swinging around) and sailed back to the car.  Re-rigged my 5.6 (still windy) so I could use my smaller carbon boom (the one that broke was alloy).  Went back out for a reasonable sail.  Then the wind died, putting an end to getting some distance in for the day.  All in all, wind was cold, rain was intermittent, wind could have been stronger, but the rainbows were pretty cool; could have been a lot worse

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Hi guys, got home and went straight out for dinner. So a bit late with the post. Today was the first time in ages we have had some real wind. The idea was to go for distance first with a good one hour. Took about 30 minutes to get up wind and then it started easing off a bit. Just one of those days that promised so much but didnt really happen. Anyway the next 5 days are meant to be windy. Perks I might come up this Wed or Thurs, I will call you during the week and let you know. Isonic 76, SSR 6.6 and new Select Silver SL31cm was used today.

What a day, Trying to put in one for the Team spent most of it driving around looking for somewhere to sail that was'nt offshore and 20kts ended up at Moorlands beach near the Devonport airport just got on the water in time for the wind to drop down to 2 kts. Sailed with our new team member Jack but having a few problems downloading his data.  Beautiful day on the water top temp today was a balmy 11.0 C Snow falling to 700 m level 30 min away. A pod of dolphins was the highlight of the session oh lifes good. Now to thaw these fingers out.  If anyone can help me find the setup config for the bgt-31 it would be appreciated.