sweet hour

Awesome hour 

Nice hr mate ...

AWESOME HR JOHN, thats a good PB, well done

I'd die for an hour that good - congrats.  Bloody good Nm too considering your 2 sec.

Special!!!!!!1

That deserves a "HOLY SNAPPIN DUCK POO" Awesome Hour Norts

You said you had a good one, well done mate.

Sausage, that's the nature of the hr here, long downwind runs, usually throws up a NM not much under the 2sec. Unless you really do a deep bearaway somewhere along the line.

Great hour, Recycle. Glad to see SRM getting their tails up again.

smoking effort John good to see the trip paid off for you..well done.

Super work John - brilliant stuff!!

Wind festered here in Bunbury!

Smoking Johno  WELL DONE , I was not that lucky been underpowered for hrs

Truly amazing hours Norts Huge congrats

good work there john! and you were saying 24 on the beach...

Great hour John.  Well done.

Awesome hour there John - great sailing in less than ideal conditions!

Fastest hour in Australia for 2010 eh!

Next challenge; the 30 knot NM on the ocean.

Great set of stats across the board.

Impresso Slowey: 42 board + 7.8m & whopping big KA 23 sym.

Nice work Guys,

Thats a nice PB there Chris

Sensaional hour John, very impresive. Well done on the pb Slowy, we know that will not be the last of them!

Nice 1HR times!

Neil ya betta check that alpha, looks wrong, way too fast for your other speeds (and a world record)

Thanks guys . The Peel Inlet is an awsome hr venue with very steady breeze and runs between 4 and 8 ks long.

With 20-25 knts of wind and fit legs there is going to be a 27knt hr come out of here,

You didn't even use the whole Estuary! I would offer to join you for an attempt but I think I would get left behind!

Nice alpha, Neil. Good to see you getting out on the water.

Haven't see a PB next to your name for a while Slowy - so congratulations, though somehow I think you can do better than that.

My general rule-of-thumb is that you are around 10% faster than me on any given day, so if I can do a 26 knot hour, then we're looking for a 28.5 from you.

Better get to it!

I am with Ado, Slowy I am convinced you can get a world beating hour on the estuary

But would he use a weedy?! Well done on the PB, Mr Boat.

Yes we want a MASSIVE hr from Mr Boat, what is he really capable of.  I know I know The hour is hard very hard grinding work, and Glamour Boyz like to do the 2sec 5x10 and NM, but I dont think that slowie is a Glamour Boy, I reckon, he could do an ozzie record?

I think its possible for a 27+ on the right day. John was ripping it! I checked my tracks and had half of it doing figure 8. Need to tune my compass a bit better. Also the combo I was using was not very comfortable. The Mistral 110 is a bit sticky with a 7.8m. It felt great in the gusts, but I was losing a lot of speed in the lulls- hence my comment on the conditions not being ideal. Also the big weed fin was killing my ankles and probably not helping the top speeds too much. 32.8kts was my peak in the hour. John was making the most of it for sure. I think the best combo will be a smaller sail on a smaller board in a bit more wind. I only just realised that was a PB :) Havent seen one of those for a while. I'd better not go too fast next time so I can have a few more PBs this summer

Great effort guys and great last minute comeback from the team  Great PB Mr Slow lucky you dont do it too often! Ado good to see you was a touch underpowered on your 7m, still nice hour... imagine the struggle on 5.8!!

the challenge is on... I should have a 7.0m in a week. Sammy thats a small sail for yesterday.

yeeh Mr Slow I take the 26.5 knts /Hr... 27+ a bit out of my league.. I know you can do it 

Great to see you score a PB Chris. Been a while, but well recieved I reckon.

stoked for norts, kicking my butt in the 1 hour yesterday

Mike, that was the first time I got the 42 going in some steady breeze (maybe 18-22kts). Seems to work well with the KA23. It was actually pointing just fine. The sail is helping that a lot. Its so stable I can keep steady on the rig, and find the balance easily on the board. Cant wait to fire him up with a 5.5m. I think some of the new speed fins coming out might have gone a touch overkill on the surface area. Makes it easy to blast around on but there is a drag penalty from all that extra surface. Fine if you need it but if you dont, then its like having trainer wheels on . I'm still stoked with the KA 23 sym. It seems to be a good balance of area, stiffness and rake for most days when you are moderately powered up. I'd better get a mould made since these fins are becoming a bit scarce...

Sammy- aim high...

Carn Slowy, walk the talk and start producing some Slowboat speed fins

I'll buy one!

me too

Good to see you're still improving Sir Slowy 

Chris A, where are you at with your ocean Nm, did you end up doing it and if so how fast ? I'm dreaming of a 30 ocean Nm, be as important to me as getting a 40 2sec 

great work John. slowie and Neil- top of the ladder beckons....

so we have a 30kt NM target for the beach... c'mon wind!!!

Oh boy I should have kept my cake hole shut, now the man's onto it   No wind here for a while so a trip to Perth it is 

C'mon over Firie, would be great to sail with you over here again

Mr Boat said "the new speed fins coming out .............like having trainer wheels"

& also these new Speed Fins require 40+ knots of wind to make them move & reach 45 knots of speed, (not very efficient) doubt they will do 50 knots/ 500meters.

Been modeling various Speed Fins in X-Foil 3D, will have to look at the KA 23cm, think Choco hit 46 knots on this fin while back.

Yes! 30 knots NM on the ocean is the project!

Who will be first to do it?

I done 27.35 the other day across Port Kennedy, swell was not too bad.. back leg was burning big time!!! I am sure it can be done but would need some smoove swell

Has it already been done? By Darryl or does this not count?

http://gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2010-07-09&team=30

I'd be stoked to get a 30kt NM off leighton. Other places can be harder or easier. "in the ocean" / "open water" is a bit vague. For example Warnbro is open water chop, but it has some long stretches of fast water so I'm sure 33/34 would be quite a reasonable target on a windy (25kt) day. Especially down near Port Kennedy. Dunno about albany, but it looks pretty shallow where Darryl was sailing.

I can't remember Albany harbour but Darryl's Nm is impressive. I'm thinking open ocean like standing on the beach and no sand bar, reef or land etc for as far as you can see, like Leighton or Cotttesloe's Dutch Inn etc. Like Chris A it's just a personal goal of mine, I remember you Ando trying a while back in what I'd call open ocean, as Slowy says ocean can be a bit vague but I'd say we know. Troppo has done nearly a 36 Nm 40 K's off shore, nearest land (Green Is) was 8 K's away 

It might be easier or harder for me here but let me tell you if it ever happens you'll hear me screaming over there  My best so far a year ago is 28.85 Doppler, I'd say another 1.25 will be like going to the moon 

Slowy I remember you posting once a 36 2sec at some beach called Crazzies, surly a 30+ Nm was on the cards and no I've never forgotten that one