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Big day out with Craig! Too tired to post last night - a shower and straight to bed! I am pleased I made the two hour drive home! Quite a few others at the PiT but we were the only Pit Crew to make it.

Bit disappointed not to have gone over 200km and a bit perplexed - I had left my GT31 set on NM, forgetting to change to km so did the maths allowing for 1.8km per NM (actually 1.85 I think) and sailed until I had 123NM on the dial, so should have been about 220km?

Good to get a decent alpha in. The 1 hr included three dropped gybes

Great to have some good runs at Sandy Point B with Craig - not quite enough wind but still incredibly glassy and a very sweet run. Also will be a good spot for a NM with a tad more wind, even with the knarly chop at the northern end.

Spent the day changing gear constantly as the wind went up and down. Had JP 96L Super X with Koncept 5m and Naish Icon 130L with 7m V8. Actually needed a sail size in between as often the 5m was a tad small but the 7m was a tad big. Late in the day I tried running the 5m sail on the 130L board as I was too tired to hold the 7m! But in the dropped wind I got skunked and eventually made it back to give the 7m another go. I should have joined Craig on the second high tide over on the northern side where he was carving out long 5km runs, but worried that the 40cm fin on my 130L board would have hit the sand banks - I touched the fin on the middle banks when I started heading over. As it turned out Craig was doing fine with a 38cm fin. Lessons for next time!

Just spoke to Craig and found out the mistake with the distance - I had taken the doppler reading which is less accurate than using trackpoints. Trackpoints gives me 230km!!

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A sail with Peter,too tired for more details. Tomorrow. Left home at 4am and rigged up the gear in the car park as the tide was too high for the drive in. On the water by 6am but the change hadn,t settled in,so it was everywhere and nowhere. A few runs down the strip but too much west for long runs so i look Pete for his first look at Sandy point "B" A few very marginal runs down there and i started to think that we might be doing a very loooong walk of shame back to the cars or straight out into Bass Straight (Very strong current) Then the wind kicked in  A very nice little one hr session dropped one jybe and off the plane twice but great fun just the two of us chasing along the sand spit. A little bit bumpy though and an annoying ssssssss noise noise from the board A quick scoot back up wind to get a NM in. I had a go at another one but smash the nose into a lump of chop and we over the front.Time to move back to the strip before the wind droped out again. Chased Peter and Jerry around for a few hours untill enough water came over the sand bar to do some long runs. Great fun untill the water went out and i touched bottom. Ouch.Nothing broken back to the strip to help Peter finish his 200km.

The one hr,Alpha and top speeds were done on the Starboard Kids Pro s, TM26,Ka 5.8

Distance AB+,Ka 6.6

A bit embarrasing posting these figures next to Peter and Craigs great efforts. Well done guy's.

A marginal session at Beaumaris Yacht Club and quite lumpy as well. Not planing a bit of the time.

The Love muss large just rocks in these conditions. Absoluetly flies when it seems that you are hardly planing. Eats the chop as well for a wide board.

OES Slalom 106 ( Love muss large) 7.1 KaRace Proto, C3 Venom 42