Awesome Hr Steve  Looking forward to Dave's post 

i hope dave gets the 500km sounds like he might do  

Hi Izaak, you got some good speed, where about did you launch from?

gravelly beach, looked like you were flying when we came down for a look. 

ooooooh one more day

Steve thats fantastic cant wait for Dave to post but its still not dark yet he may be still out there.

I left  the shack at Bicheno at 6.45am drove up to Ansons Bay no wind so left at 9.00 went to St Helens gusty raining and not really enough so went back down to Swanick absolutley bucketing down rain seemed to be killing the wind and now just got home to Ulverstone 2 tanks of juice and no sail but the team effort for the month makes it all worthwhile well done guys, hope we can hold onto #1 spot.

nice seesion guys its going to be a close finish

ARE YOU FOR REAL?????????????????????????

O         M          G

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Steve and Dave those are massive efforts(you're a freak Dave)!!

what can i say well done guys big effort dave, steve massive distance

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IF you guyz win the Spring Cup and cant see anything happening that would change that, you deserve it big time!!!!!!!

once again dave well done, i owe you a beer mate.

That is massive     

Huge effort Dave!

Anyone from MBM keen to try and beat 511km tomorrow  

Dave, That record will stand for some time I believe.  Increadible to think someone can actually sail that far in one daylight session.  Hope the cramps don't get too severe.

Amazing effort and must be enough (and a bit extra) to take the cup

SPEECHLESS DAVE-how long have you had masochistic personality disorder!!??

Brilliant hr & Mind boggling klms !!

WELL DONE !!!

Brilliant effort Dave in conditions you wouldn't send a brown dog out in, 13 deg. and pissing with rain

wow

awwww maaaate thats just NUTS. Well done! How did you stay awake?

Snags you first mate

Extreme respect Dave - well done fantastic effort.

Top effort Tassie Speed Sniffers, I think its yours!

insane - that has to be some sort of record right ??

What can we say Dave you are a mileage machine You want that cup baaaaaad

Amazing Dave, big respect.

Great PB's there guys 

500+ K's Dave, bloody hard to get my old head around that one, wow  12c and raining also is nuts 

Dave, as we say somewhere in EUR "OH LA LA"!!  thats going to be a hard to kick this one 

@MOREHEAD, I can't believe it ? What energy you have ???

500+km in one day, o my god, TOTAL RESPECT, MASTER RESPECT

thinking about selling my equipment when i see post like that...hehehehe

well done Dave we truly have to win the cup now, dad said that the distance is now having it effects, hope you come up ok.

Big congrats Dave, you said you were going to do it and you did. Also great 1Hr, well done. Also the fact you did a lot of it in horrible chop and you sailed 20km upwind through all that crappy stuff.

Thanks guys, it was pretty awful conditions, raining most of the time, completely overcast all of the time and cold, but at least there was wind.  Below is a chart of the wind while I was out (taken from station near where I was sailing), my tracks on GE and my 1 hr in RealSpeed.  

Amazing what this GPS Challenge drives us to do ...

What the!!!!! Wow Dave that is massive. You should have sailed to Melbourne and said hello while you were at it

Amazing distance Dave!

Heh, that's crazy. Love it!

How long were the runs?

Wow Dave, had to look twice, thought it was a typo, absolutely unreal.You must be so fit.

Congrats Steve on your PB's.

Absolutely gobsmacked by Daves Supect the men with the straight jackets may be coming a visiting awesome days work

Incredibly AWESOME !!!!!

Superhuman effort Dave. You deserve the cup all to yourself!  We dream here in Victoria - there's just no wind.

All numbers for Dave's track verified OK.  That is one humungous effort, and I've never heard of anyone going that far in a day...

Wow 

wow! top effort Dave well done!

LEGEND!

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AWESOME    

Struth, I can still remember the pain I went through to do 100, I can't imagine the pain x 5!!!!

just remembered that you were first to 300km now skiped the 400km and now first to 500km !!! what next??

Speechless... Awesome distance there Dave! You will always be the first to 500!

Thanks Kimba, and yes Kato was the first to 300 (which was also a huge effort and pushing the boundaries back in 2007)!!

well done guys thats a great effort and well fought back...

Only you dave!!!!!!!, Amazing effort. Your a machine.

Well done Dave, ya beat me to it  The cups all yours. Glad the new world record has stayed in Aus and you did it in 14.5hrs .Amazing. Now whats next

WELL DONE DAVE YOU HAVE GONE THE DISTANCE TOP EFFORT. GOOD LUCK BETTING THAT PB....

A great session there to the whole team, but Dave you do stand out as the MAN!

That is an amazing effort indeed. You have my full respect. How the hell did you do it? When you are back to 'normal' it would be great to hear about it in detail - the physical pain, the mental pain and how you managed to beat both of them. Did you cramp/vomit/black out/have outer body experiences??? Food sponsors / drink sponsors?

I have a mini-me in my head (wearing a super hero costume) that one day plans to get on the water very early and see what I can do distance wise, but when I see this, I think "who am I kidding"?

Full respect - an incredible effort. Enjoy the moment and the recovery.

(on you Nebbs for checking the data )

Incredible effort, well done Dave.

Well done Dave  huge effort!!!!!!!!!!

By the way  Are you near Hobart ? I will be there Sunday the 13th. and would love to check out your sailing spots.

jet and I thought it was a typo as well. Incredible effort is an understatement. WOW!

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

Makes me hurt just thinking about it!

Awesome performance, Dave.

I am sure that Claude will be plotting as I type!

Well done to you and Steve on top hours too. Hope I don't jinx it but congrats on the Spring Cup. Epic battle!

This could be the new standard for the WSSRC.... forget the 500 m... it's now 500 km!   That'll get rid of the riff-raff... you're in a class of your own!

500km!!

wooow  great!

Hey Chris, it wasn't too bad actually.  The story goes like this ...

Rigged in the dark, with the wind blowing in the trees not really knowing what the water state was like.  As I was heading out (at 5:20AM) I could see it was pretty rough.  Very powered up with the 6.5 straight away and uncomfortable sailing conditions with chop on top of a southerly swell.  Could only point upwind as too messy to reach at speed, let alone go off the wind.  Decided pretty quickly that the only thing to do was to head up to South Arm and get out of the swell.  Took almost 2 hrs.  Going reasonably quick, but taking it easy and trying not to get jarred too much.  Much nicer once in behind the lee of South Arm and able to pick up a bit more speed.  Kept going upwind for almost another hour until I made it right up into the top of the bay.  Much flatter here!!  After nearly three hours, turned off the wind and did my 1 hr PB.  Thought it best to get this in as soon as possible!!  As I gybed out of the last turn 40 seconds after the completing the 1 hr, sailed straight over to Steve who had just emerged out of the grey drizzle.  It was now around 10 AM.  We then both sailed back up wind to the top of the bay.  Steve didn't have too much time so did his one hour and headed back to Sandy Bay (still a mamoth effort with PB distance and 1hr).  I followed him for my second off the wind 1 hr and then headed back upwind again.  This time I stayed up in the top of the bay and clocked up some easy miles (flatter water).  It was around 2PM now and all was going well.  Quite a way from home, no one else out and still miserable weather.  The wind started to faulter a bit so I decided to head back to Sandy Bay and take my chances back in the swell and chop of the River (or potentially be stranded miles from anywhere in a dying wind on a sinky board).  Took over an hour to get back to Sandy Bay.  Wind had dropped out a bit for a while making it difficult to get on the plane at one stage after always being fully powered up until then.  Wind came back in though, allowing me to get back to Sandy Bay.  Time was now 4:30PM and I had done 380 km's.  Had only had a bowl of cereal that morning, but had plenty of chocolate and energy bars in the car, so scoffed three Boost bars and had half a bottle of Gatorade.  Didn't stop for long and went back down to the gear on the beach.  Still very windy and rough.  decided at that stage to swap to the 122 to make life a little easier and in case the wind dropped out at all.  Really didn't want to get stuck anywhere.  Not a single other boat on the Derwent, yet normally it is packed with water craft - highlights how rough and wet and miserable the weather was - but it was windy and that's all that mattered!!  Despite the 94L iSonic being a dream to sail, the 122 with a 40 cm Venom felt great from the moment I stepped on it.  It allowed a lot more control in the confused waters.  Basically there were three sections of water as I sailed across the river.  The first section was not too bad and last about 2/5th of the way over, then there was this horrible area in the middle that was quite confused and then there was another 2/5th that had the chop running more broad to the wind one way than the other, making going over OK, but coming back meant punching into steep chop.  Almost every set of swell/waves needed the decision, point up and slow down and try not to get airborne or bear away and get to the end of the line until you could straighten up again.  This is where the 122 came into it's own!!  I think the different sections were to do with fresh water running out on the first 'nice' 2/5th, the middle bit was just churning chop where you had to go slower and the last bit was as though there was a current running agains the swell, making the waves stand up higher than they should (like an outgoing tide). 

I had calculated that I needed to do 6 runs over to the other side to beat Claude's 423 km (sorry Claude) and when I came ashore after doing 6 runs over and back I had 436 km's.  I now knew I was averaging 9 km per run and that 7 more should see me at 500 km.  So I actually counted down each run over and back and then when I finished I did one more run over and back just to make sure.  Came ashore and had 509 km's on the dial.  Physically, I could have done more runs over and back, but felt happy to have passed 500 and to have made it back safe.  It was also getting pretty dark, with an overcast day and being 7:45PM.

The time actually went pretty quick and was never really dull.  Always thinking about where to next and going upwind and down wind a lot of the time kept it fun.  Tried to never over exerted myself, pulled off slow careful gybes and always hooked into the harness before sheeting in the sail and then just let the wind take me (rather than a power gybe).  Didn't cramp up at all (arms or legs) and still haven't.  Felt tired last night and still a bit sore today, but no blisters on the hands and not feeling too bad after the days sailing.  Worked all day today and then had to go out to a work function this evening, so only just back now at 11PM!! 

Not too keen to do it again, but should the need arise ...

Great to hear all the positive comments.  Amazing there are still so many challenges out there to be had in this sport.

Great story Dave,

Dave that is a great description of your day's sailing. Thank you. It's incredible that you could do it in what sound like relatively demanding conditions (rain, chop, swell etc). It's good that you had the space to sail 'somewhere' and have extensive upwind and downwind legs. I imagine that 500+km back and forth in the same space of water would become mentally challenging fairly quickly.

The iSonic / C3 Venom combos are fantastic and certainly would have made this an enjoyable day's sailing.

Thank you for the detailed review - it helps me to plan for my own personal attempt (god knows when??). I'm sure this effort of yours will stand for a while.

Well done again mate.

BrilliaNT Story Dave

You guyz have deserved the Spring Cup, Contact me with mailing details and I will get CUP sorted!!!!!!!!

What the!!!!! Wow Dave that is massive. You should have sailed to Melbourne and said hello while you were at it

I've got an even better idea.....if you head out the river mouth and keep going straight you'll end up over here in NZ,

 that way you should get 1200 -1500kms,...... should be easy now you're all trained up!

The One Eyed Cantabrians would even come out at Hokitika to meet you.

Great session............ you must be nuts !

That is a fantastic distance and hour too Dave, I am in awe ( and a bit inspired to try to improve my distance pb). The fact you did the distance in the cold and rain and mostly on your own makes it all the more amazing.

Looks like 19 gybes in the hour, to get 25+ like that is tremendous. I wonder what you could do given longer runs!

Hey Terry, drop us a PM on seabreeze.com.au (AUS02) and I can let you know where we sail in and around Hobart.  Are you bringing gear with you?

Michael, the runs were around 4.5 km near the top of the GE screenshot.  The ones in the southern bay were less than this. 

Hi Dave,    Wont have gear with me.  I will be on a cruise ship (working ) and will have The day off in Hobart,

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Massive effort Dave!

You made it sound so easy but we all know it's far from easy.

I thought I had a big day doing 84km in the ocean

Superb job Dave!! Aussies smashing it again this year!

Dave !!  Thank you for a great story.

Congrat from WKC, all 6 Croatian teams

and here is news 4 U http://windsurfing-koprivnica.net/comment.php?comment.news.2713

cheerz my bro

Thanks Warrior, great site you have there and YES, I do like the emotes you have, VERY cool!!!  The GPSTC is a great way to get so many sailors in different locations communicating and out on the water having fun and improving their skills.  Cheers, Dave.

Yeah, and also you were registered there and I already activate your login. So you can log now and put comments under news, use our chatbox and all cool emotes of mine :)