Pelican Point, WA, AU - 7m + F2 XTC 115 for a while, then BRAND NEW spanking Futura Wood 101

Picked up Futura this morning, and was keen to try it but Pelican was marginal, so I started with XTC and 7m.
Marginal or not, couldn't resist to try the new board. You know, you have to remove the tags first...
I loved it. Had to fiddle with straps a bit, and then it just worked. Even on sub-planing it worked better than XTC.  Very impressed by this board.
I got overpowered on 7 a few times, but it was just great today.

Cant' wait to go again tomorrow.

3 categories

Nice blast at the beaver, mostly up near pengos today which was really nice. Rigged small but was nice to have a cruisy sesh for a change. Loving the 4km runs on this combo today

iso 81, Ram F12 5.7, FO Weedster 28

Had to work this morning, but rewarded myself with a nice sail this arvo.

Launched from Shoalwater Bay with some kiters from work, but as it kicked in couldn't resist sailing up to the beaver for some speed runs. Nice and flat earlier on for my peak, but always wishing I had a slicker fin in. Sailed back to say farewell to the kiters (packed up due to too much wind... !?!?!) and then once again headed back for a couple of runs and ran into Jake.

Nicely powered on the big sail and small board. Plenty of potential around this area for some great sessions, I think I'll have to get down here more often.

CA SP47; Koncept 6.6; FO Weedster 260

Pelican Point, WA, AU

Not sure what the wind would do so went for 6.5m on 122 Isonic. Picked up and changed to RRD 98 with 32 fin. Love that board. Knocked the fin last time so sanded it down slightly: it used to sing at above 20knots, now it screams. Sounds exciting but presumably it is not efficient.

smelville

pretty averige day

but it eventualy got better and i had a few good runs in

testing a fin from jesper today, it was ok but i want to give it a better chance on a nice day

6.2 reflex, 112 mistral sl, 36 volt

3 categories

Cervantes, WA, AU

Nuclear winds, monster chop - a real challenge. Got a 61 on the radar gun (tied with Norts and Claude) - 37 display GPS too peaky to last.

Saw Slowy's epic crash, heaps of other mishaps and had a few frantic tail-walks myself.

Then to round off a manic day the tent nearly took off in the night squalls.

A great day though, thanks to Reg and his wife for getting it together.

Mistral/Lockwood 47, GPS 5.5, Lockwood 26

Lancelin bay, 5m wave sail and Kombat 79l. High tide and lots of wind so very rough and choppy. Great fun blasting around, nearly changed down to the 4.2 but got used to 5m after a while. Just after I packed up the hail came down very heavily, then the rain, garden and road both flooded. Saw Werner head past just before it struck so hopefully there werent too many out on the water. Had to meet the real estate agent on the Sunday, tidying up the house to put it on the market.

Denham, WA, AU