A short session after 8 week stint overseas. Will need to work on fitness again.

Oh and i broke the boom.   The runs were great and very enjoyable until the rig and I parted company.  

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Had to go to 90th birthday lunch so on the water after 4pm.  Apparantely the water was flatter before i got out.  Started out 13 - 18 knots so i decided to use 6.3 blade and isonic 86 - just powered but not fully lit up.  Had some close match racing with Sam - great fun.  Managed my peak on this kit and best 10 sec.  Sam suggested we change to bigger boards - so he could hopefully kick my arse.  By the time we got on the water it had picked up to 15 - 20 knots and again we had some racing together.  Closer racing this time.  We did a 4 km run together and managed a couple of nautical runs - pretty choppy in the middle.  Great afternoon cruising with Sam and hopefully have some more late arvos when the seabreezes kick.... 

PS. I don't know why everyone packed up Sam and me sailed till almost pitch black and was still blowing 15 - 20 knots.

Boggy lake - 15 - 20 knots.

Isonic 86 / 6.3m loft blade and 33cm sl7. Hour, peak and best 10 sec on this kit.

Fanatic falcon 102 / 6.3m loft blade and 35cm sl7.  Nautical and other 4 best 10 second runs on this kit.

Boggy Lake, SA, AU  Great Saturday at Boggy 15-20k.  5.7 NP 103l F2. South westerly, bit up and down at times but pretty good

Sailed Stansbury with Jason rigged 5.8 on forcast but was underdone all session, 14-17knts  first of the south easterly breeze felt like the start of the sea breeze fior the season, sailed the incomming tide had a great session need to do abit of tuning but did manage to string a series of jibes together. Having a shitty time with the GT-31 did not record to card properly had to recover again :-( looks like time for a new sd card.

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29-10-11 Lake George SSE to S 12-26 knots-7.8m+JP Slalom VI68+C3 Sting2 40cm-6.3m Loft Balde+Fanatic SL111+Select S11 35cm

Arrived day before, waking up to the sound of (music) breeze though the Tea Tree's. Rigged up x2 rigs and boards and smacked the water by around 7am. The wind started SSW and slowly tracked to a S'ly direction by days end. Cloudy with some showers during the day which was nice to wet the face and hands but fogged up my glasses. There was one major squall in whick I couldn't see jack shit but after a few hundred k's you sort of knew where you were heading!

Started with 7.8m Loft Bade with JP, sailing around to the Northern side of the spit. Blow me on my first starbord tack at speed with the sun directly in my eyes I smacked into one of only 5 clumps of floating weed. Major catapault, I really did see stars straight after with subsequent major boom bend, it was wrecked and I was pissed. Sailable back to launch site. Session ended 30 mins.

Standing there looking whether to change boom from 6.3m to 7.8m and thought wtf I'll go out on my 6.3m Bade on Fanatic. As it turned out I probably would have been blown out on my 7.8 and the sweet spot was probably a 7m that I dont have.

Sailed upwind on 6.3m doing 2 km legs for an hour then headed downwind to Northern side of spit and longer legs. First few runs pretty cautious through weed areas that you can sail between but as the sun rose in elevation spotting up was easy.

During the day the wind was at times patchy especially after squalls, drifting around glugging and waiting for the wind to kick in. Another phenomena is the weed slowly rises to the surface during the day, catching weed fequently. Solution was to sail right of the small island.

Saw a couple people on the water one of which I could swear was going to get blown downwind and was really worried for. A begginer intermediate who knows enough to get into trouble! He was on 7.7m biggish guy continually stacking. Hell I was 6.3 and powered mostly.

Towards the end of the day without the clouds and sunnies I would have been absolutely blinded by the sun! Running out of daylight with my hands pretty well butchered! I headed back knowing I was so so close to 400kms but with no light I had to call it a day!

Other than wrecking my boom it was a good day for distance sailing. My hours were crap due to weed and or non-planing at times but in a strange sort of way I enjoyed it all Would you?????

Goolwa Lake, SA, AU JP Slalom 68, KA Knocept 6.6, Select Slam Elite 35, Wind: S 17-22

Good fun sail, wind picked up a bit but rather than changing sails, i just pulled the out haul on and killed the sail.

should have changed as the sail didn't work as well, too flat, felt slow.