Slowboat (25967km):
4793 days ago  BAM and the wind is gone. Thought it was going to stay up all day, so I decided on the afternoon beaver session hoping for a little more south in the wind. Well it was honking all morning and when I got there it was looking great. Rigged up 6.2m expecting to be blown away at times. Even set up the speed board, along with the '12 Mistral 57cm slalom. Got slammed carrying the rig to the water. Oops. But as I got on the board... hang on... somethings missing... aaaah the wind has stopped suddenly. And it pretty much stayed stopped all afternoon. Mostly 15 to 22kts with some lighter patches and occasional bullets to 25. Really strange. Totally underpowered 99% of the time because it was 7.8 weather. I could see big rain squalls going past but missing the beaver by a couple of km- and killing off the wind each time. Was hoping for the wind to come back, so didnt bother changing up. Caught out by positive thinking. Persisted underpowered with the 6.2m on the slalom board and did manage a 40 and a couple of 39s on the dial before deciding it was more sensible and more fun to pull out the '12 113 litre 68cm Mistral. That was more fun! I could stay on the plane more easily.
The only rain squall of the afternoon that made it across the beaver hit when I was on the big board. It was very short- lasting only a minute, but I was powered up on the 6.2m for some of it. Great. That was my fastest run of the day with a 40.49 on the dial- on the big board. I thought it would do 40. Done!
Checking the wind meters now it looks like there was loads of wind everywhere else, all day. Hope a few other guys got out there.
Onya ado for doing the morning session. The guys there said it was much windier in the morning. Glad someone made the most of it!
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