Phil Bennett (505km):
4323 days ago Queens Lake, NSW, AU Four seasons in one day at Queens. Everything from total drenching downpours with 18 knts of wind, to near glass off conditions lasting 20 minutes. At one stage I near fell to sleep laying on my board drifting in the warm sun waiting for a gust-any gust- to blow me closer to shore. Then 10 minutes latter it's solid 18 knots of clean, sweet s-easter- but only for a 5 minutes... Pretty painful really but stoked to get back on the water. Got 1 hour of good sailing from 4 on the water-still better than nothing!
Highlight, pulled off 5 gybes in a row, two with planining exits- yeee bloody haaa! Thanks Mark J for the on-site mobile phone pointer about keeping the front foot just behind the mast base during the carve. That helped heaps and kept the board planing. Thanks to Adam for some footage the other week, showing me also where I was stuffing up. Still sooooo much to learn to be half as good as any of you guys- and girls. But definitly fun trying to piece it all together!
Lowlight, done something to my foot during a failed gybe. If I haven't busted a bone I'll be very surprised. No work (or sailing) for a while I think...
JP 101 FSW and 6.6 GP2
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