Mandurah Mob (WA, Australia) - 2013-02-06
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Pepe47
25.97(D)
24.64(D)
8.46(D)
21.16(D)
21.81(D)
16.27(D)
Hardie
34.406(D)
31.696(D)
13.607(D)
26.002 [PB](D)
20.832(D)
44.332(D)
Elmo
33.629(D)
32.012(D)
10.263(D)
18.491(D)
30.456(D)
26.08(D)
Decrepit
man of
evets
Webby
salty
col
Maverick
Jason WASURF
Slugger
Big Dave
Basil
Lawrie Hendickson
Wipeout
Fudge
Hammer
Jessica
Average34.0231.8511.9423.5826.1335.21
Pepe47 (7101km):
4272 days ago

6.6m, 115l, 36cm weedie, Morning sail at Novara, south east wind. (meaning the wind was swinging from south to east). Fun sail regardless, happy with the gybes. Hopefully more tomorrow.



Hardie (20239km):
4272 days ago

Wink Well to say I needed that windsurf session is an under-statement.  Felt in the zone today, have been in form for about a month, and today the conditions were ideal.  Alpha PB was my mission today, sailed in Alphaland, the markers Tom set up are great, Thankyou TomCool, the gear I used was my alpha machine Tabou Manta 74, TR-7 5.9m, DEcrepit 45degree weed.  Its a magic place to do Alpha's.  If anyone wants a guide to the place next time you sail at Novara, let me know, and I;ll guide ya through the place!!!!!!!!  Dunno what I feel really. Not as ecstatic as I normally would be, probably still feeling a bit shell shocked by everything.  However, sailing in the zone and getting a PB in a high skill area like alpha gybing is very satisfying.  I wanted into the 26kt alpha club pretty bad!!!!!  I had 11 gybes over 25kts.

 

Wind was about 15 to 23 kts maybe the odd stronger gust??  Water state, into the markers about 20cm yo 30cm chop, beyoung the markers 15 to 20cm chop, in the gybing area 5cm chop.



Elmo (15665km):
4272 days ago

Tabou Manta 54cm&Elmo Δ weed 25cm, Tabou Thunder 70cm& JP Weed 36cm, NP RSR Eii 6.2(RIP)

After work sail, thought I'd try the little Manta, gave it a run went for a Naughty, discovered that the board was a bit small for the amount of wind and my inherant laziness but went for the Naughty anyway, gybed at the end and totaly f'ked it up resulting in me smashing my head into the sail losing my glasses and giving me a good swim after the gear which was drifting away from me.

Decided that breathing was a bit tricky for mucking around on small board so after much fluffing and trying to get going sailed back and changed to 70cm Thunder with the 36 weedy to deal with the chop.

Tried another Naughty but still struggling for breath because of my first headcold for the year (rockin), decided to have a look down in Alpha land a bit ambiscous with a 36cm weedy.

Was havin some fun down there watching the Stroppa doing his Thang, started getting it dialed got some nice gybes but best which would have been a PB (23.87) apart from the proximity being 52-53m, still theres potential for improvement and maybe I can beat that skinny speed demon from Albany.

Not the best of sessions but definately not the worse, although getting back to shore and finding that my sail had destroyed it's innards wasn't the ideal way to finish.

 

Congrats to Hardz on a stonkin Cormer, the one I saw looked Smooooooooooth asCool

 



Comments
Izaak Perkins


TAS
Australia
4272 days ago
Awesome alpha hardie!!
Sausage


QLD
Australia
4272 days ago

Hardie,

Cracking Alpha- congratulations.  Nothing better thanfinding your sailing mojo too

Pepe47


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Wow, huge alpha there Hard's!

lao shi


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Woohoo! AlphaMAN!Cool

Keef


NSW
Australia
4272 days ago

smokin joe Wink

Stu


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Nice corners Hardie Cool

Great Nm Yoko - 30kts! sweet.

Sammy


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Fantastic Joe Cool, 26.. now we talking!! can you try this again in the next few days so we can try to back up up Wink

Adam


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Nice Alpha there Hardie, Cool

Macka Packa


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

26 alpha Hardz, that's elite! Congrats.

Mark Hampton


NSW
Australia
4272 days ago

Awesome  Hardie!!!!!!!!!!

Snides


WA
Australia
4272 days ago
Top stuff hardie,well done on reaching the 26 club!
Rod


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

very nice corner hardie awsome effortCool

Windxtasy


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Juuust sneaked in there, but hey, that's enough! Whoo hoo! Congratulations!

Awesome naughty there "Yoko" too. Are you also going for the category of most name changes in a season?

STROPPO


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

TOP SH#T HARDIE you deserved that well done againCool

Elmo


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Ima deserving the Yoko tag at the momentEmbarassed I've been a bad bad muppetFrown

Stringer


WA
Australia
4272 days ago
Great alphas guys, how about a GE overlay to show the way around the markers
Diablo


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Fantastic alpha HardieCool

sms09


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Awesom  alpha there hardie. well done Cool

Pointman


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Smokin corner Hardz, nice work Cool

Tomski


WA
Australia
4272 days ago

Nice one Joe. All the energy in the right directionWink. Well deserved!!

Nelson


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Nice cornering Hardie, I can only imagine how sweet they felt Cool

 

Hardie


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Thanx Guyz HumbledEmbarassed Alphaland Tips = Firstly Reason i dont do Google earth overlays is I dont know how to do themYell I know alphaland intimately, and the thing that made the differernce was looking at and following Stroppo to see how he negotiated the markers.  Also going to be tidal dependent how far you go in.  So dont think google earth will help, talking to and following someone that knows how it works is the key.  I'm offering!!!

Elmo


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

 

G'day all, here is my tracks from down in Alphaland, I have put a couple of red dots where I "thunk" the markers are, there is a PVC post and a yellow drum, I sailed past them gybed and used them for prximity. I was plowing on the curvy bit

 

Hardz and Stropp were using much smaller fins than me (I was using a 36) so looked to be going a lot closer to the shore I have put the line where I think they were going into, I wasn't that brave.

Hardie


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Yoko Ono's Alphaland Map is very accurate, and he got it right where I was gybing, the red line, but i had a 26cm 45 degree weed fin, and I was definitely, ploughing thru weed as I was gybing

Windxtasy


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Elmo, (You'll always be Elmo to me) your gybing has obviously improved a lot. There's hope for me yet!

Pepe47


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Cracking naughty there too Yoko!

Stringer


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

thanks guys, i had a different theory as to how you were doing them so thats great for sharing.. (i thought you were going the other way :S)

Baldy


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Nice alpha Hardie!

Thanks for sharing the spot.

I may get down there again in the next decade to enjoy some smooth stuff.

More name changes - aarrgghhh Wink

evets


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Fantastic Alpha Hardie. Well done on the 26+

I look forward to seeing both of our alpha pbs improving Elmo (and yours too Windxtasy!)

 

Decrepit


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Fantastic Joe, tried to do some alphas here today incase you had another go, but wind was too light and patchy.

Hardie


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

I couldnt sail today anyway, back went into spasms, went to see David, physio, said to restYell I hate that 4 letter word

Sammy


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

I wished it would be my side Cry, kiteland on the other spot is my side, maybe we shld put markers there too Innocent

dr cam


QLD
Australia
4271 days ago

Great alpha hardie!!Might fly you over for some personalised coaching now that you're in retirement ...CoolWink

 

Hardie


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

dr Cam you are welcome any time, you have free accommodation here, I'll show ya all da spotz! Dont fink u'll need coaching, plus even if ya did need coaching u wouldnt get it from me because u r one of my arch enemy rivalsEmbarassed if anifink I'd probably sabotage u by giving you regressive information  MWA HAHAHAHA!!!!!

Gaz


QLD
Australia
4271 days ago

Awesome alpha Hardie. Must be nice to get it at home.

Hardie


WA
Australia
4271 days ago

Yeh ta Gaz, Mandurah is not a speed venue like LG or SP but for alpha's in Alphaland its pretty special

kato


VIC
Australia
4271 days ago

Nice one Joe,well deserved

PJ


SA
Australia
4270 days ago

Hardie big gratsCool