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Rigged wrong again, wind neva came in till late Still should be grateful getting seabreezes in March after being skunked in feb

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48cm speed board, 23cm ado lockwood, 6.0 avalon sail.

HGad a play in alpha land, told the boss I'd be unhappy if I didn't have a 23, well I got 2 23s one at 62m the best a 23.79 at 70m.

Bummer!!!!! Thought I'd got this width thing worked out.

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Safety Bay, WA, AU CA SP50 NP RS Slalom Mk III 7.0 25.5cm finworks weedy

Was amped for a bloody quick one today lgot 36.5 display afetr first run then my boom decided blow up in my hands as I was about to bear away in pressure on run 2, 30 odd minutes of swimming bodydragging etc back to the beach I changed booms and went back out only to find the wind had faded.

The tide was dangerously shallow with that constatnt feeling of weed rubbing against the fin on the way down the run. Called it early a bit annoyed with things.

There was some mad swissman still out burning down the bar after sunset as I drove away.

JP Slalom VI 65cm, NP RSS Mk IV 7.8m, JP Slalom 40cm

Got down there later than everyone, faffed around coming with all the excuses not to sail even though the boys looked like they were doing alright about an hour later finally decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and did an express rig.

Hit the water just after 5 took of expecting not to last to long, went down the run and past the channel marker went to gybe and gybed sailed back to the end of the boat ramp channel and went gybe and gybed again was zipping back and forth having a right old time I thought I'd make a go of doing an hour even though it would take me into feeding time.

Was amazed only droped 3 gybes, 1 rehooked, one due to mupettism, and another due to hitting something hard enough just as I entered the gybe to catapult me a good 5m away from my kit, I can tell you i got my crap together pretty quick on that water start.

This wasn't the only incident which I had with wildlife, earlier sailing over the channel I flew over a nice piece of chop to see something black about a foot wide go under the front of the board which landed on it with a teeth rattling thud, I didn't hang around to find out what I'd annoyed but it was sitting in the back of my mind when I fluffed my gybes.

Really happy with the session considering how unenthused and ungrippered I was before hand. The Hour had 16 gybes in it

Booties still give me the irrites.

Hardies Run, WA, AU

fun brief sail, Iso 86S RSREII 7.0 JP31 weedy.

Never really fully powered, quite gusty (I think I had to leave before it picked up). Alpha really pleasing because I should be able to improve on this given some consistent wind (thanks for the coaching Captain)

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 Awesome session at SBay with Adam, was going to go at Hards, but the arrows looked doggy for Mandurah but the tide looked perfect for SB so sailed at the local. Got there after 3.. Ripples high all the long of the bar.. it was absolute gorgeous (the price to pay was the the jibes in the messy swell outhere ) just did not want to stop.. sorry for the beer Adam!!

Excactly same combo that yesterday , started for the Alpha session fallowed by the speed with Adam. Down the run I wasnt really powered, the wind dropped soon after I change to the CA , had a 34.5 on the tabou! What the fantastic last 3 days  and at last I scored a PB  yeeeeeahhh

Tabou59 - 270/45 ProFoil.V2, CA50 - SS250/40SP, RSR5.8

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Blue Bay. Quick sail in ocean. Good to sail on the speed board

Glory Holes, Australind, WA, AU 20plus knts then 15-18knts SW'er

CASP50, RSR 7.8m, 28Maui custom speed

Rigged in solid looking speed sailing conditions and was getting rather excited. Chose the "Slowboat" combo. Got on the water and it backed off to not even powered up, Doh!!!!!!!!!!