2 categories

Wind picked up around 2pm very gusty and shifting all over the place this made the water into a minefield of confused chop,picking a line wasn't an option just had to hold on and blast over it made for some hairy moments but good fun.

Manta 59--Loft Blade 6.2m--Select SL 27cm   wind 15-23knts

All forecasts pointed to a good day and it was. SW is a great direction for the channel and allows easy runs right up to the barrages. Water was flat and made for good long runs.

Isonic 94, 6.0 Vapor. Goolwa

Lorch S83, KA 5.o, select 27, Wind  SW very gusty 25-30

not a happy day for me, couldn't get comfortable, still.. a good day out sailing..

1 categories

Early start to the day at goolwa alpha channel.  Short sail a couple of beers before 9am - another sail and a pastie and iced coffee - thanks the Hamoods - we owe you.  Another sail - lunch break and sailed till the end of the day and finished the day with a beer.  Majority of the day was 18 - 25 knots - south west - picked up later to 20 - 30 knots.  Very square course - all the speed was done in the chop.  Rode most of the day on fanatic 89, 5.8m koncept and 31cm sl7.  It picked up so i took out the isonic 50.  The course being sqaure the isonic 50 was no benefit to speeds.  The usual fin dramas happened again.  This time my slalom drake 28 that came with the 50 delaminated while riding it - luckily it didn't snap on the water.  Also i had a stack at 35 knots in the chop on the 50.  It broke my harness - losing the spreader bar.  It was fun sailing back to shore in 20 - 30 knots with no harness.   Thanks Tim for a loan harness.  Tried my new carbon ka boom - what a beast!  Good turnout and a bit of fun as usual.

Goolwa alpha channel 

4 categories

Fanatic 91, 6.2m loft blade and 31cm sl7.  Goolwa alpha channel - 20 - 30 knots.

2 categories

1 Hour was the aim of the day, pretty tiring when the wind picked up to 30 knots 20minutes in, was very temping to bearaway in the big gusts. Was hoping for a 26 but maybe next time.  Spent half the session trying to tune kit which was unbalanced in the square conditions.  A new harness also took a while to get sorted. Great fun and good to catchup with some of the team I have not seen for a while.

Welcome Warren!

Slalom V 92 - RSR6.7 - SL731 Wind 20-30

Started on fanatic 104, 35cm select and 5.8m koncept and ended up on exocet tb58, 27cm sl7 and 5.0m koncept.

Goolwa alpha channel - 20 - 30 knots.

1 categories

Tabou Manta 59,30cm tectonics,CA 44,26cm tectonics RS 6.2evo1

Had to leave at 2.00,killed me as the wind was just starting to kick in.

Goolwa Channel NP 5.7 Expression F2 103