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Totally Agree Gestalt. Small wave sail/big freeride board combo is a hoot in the sea. Nice videos Pete. Board looks great

I've been moving away from 100% carbon RDMs over the past few years. I'm sick of seeing permanent bends in them (at the ferrule). The less carbon content masts don't seem to bend. If you rig up your RDM mast, hold it at the bottom end, and then rotate it when looking down it. See if it's bent.

There's a generation of C100 RDM masts made in the 2000s that came out of a particular factory. They don't seem to get bends in them.

Also, water does not enter mast with this design.

Best of luck. Hopefully a quick recovery now issue has been identified. I've had a few serious health issues over 10 years. I solve one, and new issue comes. Solve that, and new one comes. All apart of getting old, and making body go as long as it can in order to enjoy life. My goal is not to cripple myself before retirement.

Not sure, but when I was about 30, a GP explained to me how the body removes calcium and salt from the body. So, I took his advice, and threw away my table salt. I've always been a big milk drinker. I drink about 5 litres a week, but now days low fat milk. I've never had a broken bone. The only issue is a dicky L/H calcaneus bone I did in a few years ago when "coming in hot" and missing a duck gybe in the shallows. I don't think I broke it, but banged up enough to give me mild pains still. I believe that's a common kite surfing injury ?

If you're adding salt in your meals, then cut that out of your cooking. Salt is very bad for the bones.

Hopefully.

You're going to have to start drinking 300 mega litres of milk SB

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UncleBob said..
Around here in southern Sydney the kids in their mid teens seem to gather in flocks with absolutely no regard for others or any idea of road or pedestrian safety. I recently came very close to becoming very up close and friendly with three of them doing wheelies and slides in my local pedestrian mall. I admire their obvious skill but mourn their lack of awareness and respect for public spaces.

Did they look a bit like this ?

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tonners999 said..

thanks

If you can post a pic of your gear. I know you're a forum newbie and it's not letting you, but when you can, would be interesting to see it.

Beetroot strikes again. Thanks for posts IanR.

If you can afford it, go to a shop and get their advice.

Although you are learning in 5 to 15 knots of wind, the danger is, if the gear is too hard to use, or board too small, there is a good chance of developing ingrained bad habits that will prevent you from progressing. The gear you have may probably be ok. But since it's been thrown out, I bet it isn't.

With a big floaty board, make learning to perform a tack your priority.

Worked a treat for motorcyclists in SA. Mind you, this is a different age group and these guys had to spend their own hard earnt buying them.

Went for a 10km pushbike ride up the hill (no wind at the moment). Spotted two illegal e-bike/scooter riders on my way. One kid, 10YO, riding his e-scooter on a 1 metre wide path. No helmet. I reckon he was was going at least 30km/h. He takes a blind right hand corner hugging the 2m iron fence. If the timing was bad, I would be in a police station making a report, instead of sitting here typing this with a Kirin.

Illegal e-bikes to be seized and destroyed in major New South Wales crackdown:

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/illegal-e-bikes-seized-and-destroyed-in-nsw-crackdown/106317782

I think its the case of sht happens, and not point the finger at anybody. If this scenario ever got to the rates of Indian/Australian drownings, or ebike collisions, then I think it would need serious attention. I don't think it's reasonable to expect somebody with no marine background to understand how the wind works. I agree PJ, You can't expect hotels to think of everything.

Tailor or dress maker. Same tradies that turn up work trousers. Also, motorcycle apparel places you could try.

What was notable to me was, when he landed, for whatever reason, people on the beach did not help him (he mentioned foreigners on the beach in his interview). So then, he had to run 2km to his accommodation to locate his Mum's phone.

The kid is a future leader. Just the way he interviewed. Champion for saving his family.

Thanks mate. Appreciated

But the data is there, publicly available. Even if the SB graph was 30min average (using this feed), it would be better than nothing. Unless there's something I'm not understanding ?

reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDS60901/IDS60901.94146.shtml

Hello Admin,

Could you add the Adelaide Airport graph to the SA Seabreeze graphs ?

www.seabreeze.com.au/weather/wind-forecast/adelaide

Most people probably have a 3rd party smart phone app that predicts the wind for them, but I'm old fashioned. I like to read your 10min averaged readings at Edinburgh, Black Pole, Adelaide A/P, and Sellicks graphs simultaneously. At the moment, I open up the BOM reading and look at their 30min averaged data, which is numerical, not graphed. Much appreciated :)

reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDS60901/IDS60901.94146.shtml

Yeah true, good idea. But if you permanently put something out there, it could get flogged (grabbers). Setting one up each session is not practical. I can bounce your idea off the locals, and see what they think. They own boats.

It can cause panick K3K. But yes, good evolutionary reflex. Especially coming off +35kt on a stinky lake. Water tends to jet under the eye balls at that speed, and end up with pink eye for a few days. So harder shut the better IMO.

Tested GNDALERT at Stansbury last Wednesday. The intention for this device was LG. But I don't know when I will sail LG again. I know Stansbury's inside sandbar very well. So, this device is a bit useless at this spot. Also, LG is not tidal, and Stansbury is. With a bit more development, I could make GNDALERT cater for tides, but at the moment, it does not. So, I was manually switching between maps on the water based on the time.

There is one scenario at Stansbury that this device would be useful. When the sun is low late arv, the water turns into a mirror. The inside sandbar has two main steps. Once the water fills in over all of it (it does this quickly - 1 run it's there, the next it isn't), and the wind kicks in to +25kt, the step can go from 30cm to 5cm. You won't know, until you hit it. I've been caught out once on an 18cm fin. Hurt myself and put a hole in my sail. It's something you only do once, but then you get scared, and stay away from that flat area with +25kt blowing across it, and miss out on the best bear aways for the session.

This device 100% needs blue tooth ear buds. The wired ear plugs were giving me the ****s with the wires blowing in my face. But, audio was nice and loud over the wind noise. The alerts were occurring exactly where they were expected. The "last run" reading was very useful (ie: after a gybe, it told me me my max 2sec speed, current distance, and local time). I was a bit worried that my own voice would start to get into my head, but it was just the right amount of talking and silence.

Another idea (which I think would be more useful for Stansbury), is a box alert feature that identifies speed strips. So, when you are approaching a speed strip, it tells you that. It then tells you when you're on it, it continually tells you. When you're about to leave it, it tells you that etc. Tidal specific boxes. So, different speed strips will become active at a given tide, like they do at Stansbury. But, the important one being, is as mentioned above: when the sun is low.

I'm very happy with it. It's definitely useful. Next winter (or next few winters), I'll progress this prototype to maybe a 3D printed shoulder mount device with Blue Tooth support, and tide aware profiles for Stansbury.

You, me, carpark now ?

Thanks for pics and info Jacko. Much appreciated.

Point taken. But I nearly drowned last November when a kiter dropped his kite in front of me during a +30kt stormy. I ended up in his lines. Not sure exactly what happened. I was pointing up wind on starboard tack out the back, and his kite appeared out of nowhere 10 metres in front of me. So I'm very scared of kite lines now.

I never sail near boats, because something might be following them. Mind you, there are not a lot of fishing boats sailing along the coast in metro Adelaide, so the opportunity to do that seldom arises.

^^ Kite lines.

Heat wave here in Adelaide. Fixing a mate's board and watching this sht. Bono Estente !

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ratz said..

would not bother....very hard to go back to using a ally boom after having a carbon one.
i tried but just ended up getting a good second hand carbon one.

Agree. Alum booms are ok for speeding/slalom sailing that have negative outhaul (some of those guys have very good reasons for alum booms). But for modern wave sails that rely on very positive outhaul, an alum boom flexes too much (or a too far extended carbon boom), and this changes the centre of effort on the sail as the effective length of the boom changes. If you use a carbon boom with these new rigs for a while, and then use a same size alum boom for a session, this effect is very noticeable. Plus, one wants to make a wave rig as light in the hands as possible anyway.