With the river bound to be a shambles today, decided to head to Safety Bay or Woodies if the wind was quite strong. When it didn't look like being much over 20kts, decided to save the drive and headed to Leighton.

Had a really fun session, with a fairly steady 16-20knots seabreeze, which swung westerly for a while then back SW. Initially thought about going for an hour but didn't, but after a while thought a distance PB might be the go. Last session was the best, sailing for about 1:20 non stop. Knew by looking at the GPS that I had easily bested my previous distance PB but now was worried the battery was about to go flat, so just kept going until my hands just gave up.

Leighton was incredibly flat today, which was great for big off the wind runs. Headed up to Port Beach a couple of times and also Sausageland but the stink was a bit noxious so didn't hang around long. Had Steve from WF and John ? for company early then Murray Pickering and had some lovely off the wind drags with him.

Great Australia Day ! CR 7.7 IS101 and Talon 40 

Safety bay , fun sail across the bay , speed runs inside the pond were dangerous with a ridiculous amount of kiters on the water .

IS111, 7.7, 38LE weedy, and later IS86, 6.5CR, 27 Choco weedy.

Smellvile at about 4pm - Koncept 7.5, Manta 67, Venom 35 - not inspiring but at least it will help the fitness level

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Australia day. Lightish seabreeze sailing late at Melville. Did a couple of runs on the 7.8m and JP65 with KA37 fin. Fun.