Congrats on the excellent PBs Loomo!

WOW Loomo, awesome speed mate, no wonder you gave it away after 17 K's, beer time 

Superb pb's,well done Loomo, where was it? Lynfield? Always interesting to see what gear you were using also. Hope fully there's a back up session.

WOW, that is a massive PB from your previous best. Congrats!!

Great speed Craig.

Was at Lynfield in the morning, tide was racing in & very choppy.

Craig only had 5 runs.

Hi Guys, Thanks for your kind words. The breeze was pretty patchy and the track bumpy, had quite a swim before a gust came to get me back to the beach. Someone else from our team needs to post for us to score any points, are you going to post Michael and Bruce? Was on the Lynfield run. Oh for plenty more wind, there never seems to be enough to get fully powered up.

Sorry, I did not mention my gear, the board; 440mm wide and about 50 litres volume, shaped by myself and built by Bruce Nicholson at Big World. The sail; a Neilpryde RS Racing 5.8, the fin an asymmetric one I shaped out of G10 200mm deep.... and a blading, grey fat unfit driver approaching half a century.

Way to go Craig.
(Sorry about no backup  - had to work!)

Have to be happy with that speed from a self designed board, awesome 

Awesome numbers Loomo-big congrats !!!

Great speeds Loomo - gotta love that good ole kiwi ingenuity! Surprised you didn't make your own sail!!

Great top speed Craig and even better on homemade gear, congrats.

Can you guys organise some reliable wind so that we can come and try your speed spot....some one up there must know the right person to talk to?

Thanks to Michael and Martin for posting, now we can score some points for the day. Mike, Reliable wind...not in NZ unfortunately.. more like reliable lack of wind. Very difficult to plan for the weather especially at Lynfield other known as Lamefield due to the many times we have all reigged up and no wind came. Sandy point shows to us that the spot has an enormous impact on the speeds that can be acheived, the gear and the driver are secondary.. I have found that you can spend a lot of time trying to go fast in the wrong conditions on the wrong course and just end up damaging yourself and getting depressed, going fast is easy when you have a good speed course..

"Can you guys organise some reliable wind so that we can come and try your speed spot....some one up there must know the right person to talk"

As Craig, put it we would be better off flying to Sandy Point,

Mike, http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast.php?type=rain®ion=nz&noofdays=7 does the talking, has to be really tight SW isobars with a regular pattern over 7 days.

Indication of Wind speed coming of the Tasman Sea ~ http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/flash/

Auckland Airport Wind Meter is the most accurate.

41 knots. Wow! Great speed Loomo and 3 PB's. Well done SpeedEnz on rocketing up the rankings.

Quote" Sandy point shows to us that the spot has an enormous impact on the speeds that can be acheived, the gear and the driver are secondary.."

HEY!!! I resemble that statement!!!

Great effort though........ One can only wonder at how fast you could have gone with a KA assy..

Hi Andrew, no intention on offending anyone, just saying that you can be the best sailor with the best gear but if you are on a bumpy track with an unfavourable wind angle you are not going to go fast.. I could try Michael's KA Assy but after looking at it and fondling it a bit I suggest that it would be slower, it does nothing for me, shape wise nor dynamic flex wise but I am very happy to accept that I am wrong as I am only an amateur at foil design.  I will talk to Michael and see if he is happy for me to try it, the other problem is finding enough wind to go out and test fins, both Bruce and I have quite a few that we have built but have not had consistent enough wind or opportunities to get out and test them in the past year. I would love to get over to Sandy and spend some time on the track with you, just a mission getting the gear over there that keeps putting me off, I need to grunt up and get over travelling with gear and do it before I get too old and have to resort to kitsurfiing all of the time..

Hi Craig ,

           I'm keen to get over to SP also before I become a pensioner (and when the time comes maybe we can team up for transport, accomodation etc) but it looks like we need to organise some reliable wind even for this place.....this w/surf crew just doesn't seem to know the right person to talk to !