Great no's for the swan ocean

25. Surely the fastest in WA for the day? Does that nm include a gybe?

Good work PD - were there any other there in support?

Evets

Yes the mile had a gybe and the chop was about 3 foot high mid river;

and no - heard Slowey pulled a 41 up at Melville over the shallow flats!!

Get on and post Chris!

Ado - yes Claude was out and S'boat launched from Melville blew the doors down there by all accounts and came down to Peli as the wind was starting to fade.

Great to see Robbie Radis was out charging around and showing flashes of that brilliance he'll never lose on a 6.7 RSR

26+Nm with gybe

38 2 sec

>38,  priceless

nice 1 pedro well done mate!!!!!!

Hope you got out too Snides

Nice effort 25. I can only dream of speeds in chop like that

25. Surely the fastest in WA for the day? Does that nm include a gybe?

Nu, think Slowey did a tad better at Lucky bay while I was there He hasn't posted yet but he had some good data.

that was fun... well done PD!

Well done peter, 38 on swan is a sbhit load faster than your pb of 41 on the run , well done again (you suck) can't wait to see you down there this season

Great work S'Boat.

Shot us to the lead for Oct with 2 days to go!! A bit of discipline goes a long way!

Claudo still to post - and he said he had couple of cracker miles!

No comment needed well  done Chris , as always you are the "one", balls of steel too!!

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaah guys, well done

damn that was fun!!!

Nice one guys, just awsome

Chris, so many boards, which one did you get the max and Nm on ?

Nice work guys think we have the wind drought you guys had the last couple of weeks.

champion effort there slowey an 25. I'm sure more great scores to come in.Could of been windier up there 25. I was undercooked  on a 6.6..Have fun guys as i am off to work.

another polished performance guys, well done!!

evets-i missed out due to my nephews 10th bd,tonight my sisters 40th,tomorrow FNQ......back here on the water monday ..hopefully ready for a new month and new challenges!

Respect guys. Another winning performance. Boy you were in close to the point Pedro. Any groundings?

Awesome effort to bring it home boys!!! Great team effort this month! 41 knots Slowy - woohoo!

damn that was fun... Firie, my fastest runs were on the SP44/23 fin. I only pulled out the 101 liter SL62 as it was getting dark. NM was literally the first run on the board- stretching the footstraps. I took off from the carpark and sailed down to Peli Pt. Its a great board. Gybes very easily and bashed over the worst of the chop piece of cake. Nice and safe in rough conditions. It will be excellent in the ocean and for slalom racing, which is why I got it.

Hey Crasher, it wasnt too windy at Melville either... a couple of (very) small puffs came through but it was way stronger and more consistent at Peli when I sailed down there. Somehow Peli was sucking the wind... But with the wind comes the chop. Thats why Melville is my pick of the metro spots for speed. Its always so gusty the chop doesnt build that much. Looking forward to a proper windy day.

Well done team SRM - Claude and Chris - hope to [should] have October in the bag!

Lao shi - tide was about 0.9m at 6pm and rising so it was deep enough [and hence choppy]. Did a couple of runs through with my gladiator 95 with a 32cm falcon first up and didn't hit bottom so charged it with the CA47 and 26cm falcon on the rising tide. I have sailed the same area on about 0.7m tide and its much flatter but the risk of bottoming out is very real.

same with Melville. Suicide with anything bigger than 26cm. Rake helps to minimise the chances of a catapault when you run aground. Not flash for the fin though. Just realised yesterday was my PB for Melville on the GPS dial,  and only 0.2 off my WA PB. I cant wait for a proper windy day there! ie one where the 5.8m is actually powered up. bring it on!!!

So what's making the all differences with people sailing so much faster on the swan ocean than a season or two ago??

ummmm a certain board brand perhaps . Fins. Finding flat water. Going shallower. Going broader. All good things for improved speed... The Swan Ocean offers some very fast conditions at certain times... Patches of gold. But its not often that the planets align and we see more than 22kts wind  in the gusts.

something beginning with the word  C ?? 

Hey no need to get offensive with the big C word, I've known you're a Big C for a long time, is that what it takes to go fast. Mr D must be very happy in his collaboration with you

Certainly my CA board [SP47] has helped me of late but I have done 38s at Peli Point on my 52cm Kinetic and 37s at Melville on the 59cm gladiator. But they were 'once or twice a season' type days.

My last two outings at Peli on the CA47 have yielded [combined] 5 or so separate 38+ 2sec peaks in choppy and less than 'always fully powered' 5.8 conditions.

My prediction is that when we get those 'once or twice a season' type days the Mother Swan will deliver some very high peaks in summer 08/09.

Overall Hardie I'd say better equipment and more 'spirit of adventure' [read balls] over the shallows.

PS - I'm too fat for Melville - too gusty at 95+kg - learning to love Peli now I work spitting distance away!

Thanx Bud  Equipment, Skill and attitude sound like the formula I've got the equipment at least just need to work on the other 2

Thanks for getting back to me Chris, I've had my SL58 now for a couple of weeks and already have had a few PB's on it. I was very surprised how well it handled our rough conditions, it just eats it, but then James said it would

I can see it's going to be a long love affair with the CA