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Maddlad said..
Had a magic session on foil gear yesterday in 10 -13 knots. There really is nothing like flying above the water on foil race gear, powering up and down the river while watching poor buggers stuck on fins pumping their rings out to try and get going for 100 metres and then drop off the plane. Poor bastards.

That's mean! How did you go on your foil in 30 kts gusts yesterday? I guess us fin buggers were not so stuck and enjoyed great conditions.
I appreciate foiling in light wind, but we have so many strong wind days that I can almost sail daily on a fin so why bother?

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Maddlad said..
Had a magic session on foil gear yesterday in 10 -13 knots. There really is nothing like flying above the water on foil race gear, powering up and down the river while watching poor buggers stuck on fins pumping their rings out to try and get going for 100 metres and then drop off the plane. Poor bastards.

In those winds I'm going over 20kts on my 60cm fin.
That fin cost me $50
Using some gifted sails, I sail alot. If I went to work more to buy foil and good race sails then I would not be sailing, and then I'd feel sorry for myself.
So, don't feel sorry for me or my fin, we are very happy.
Tell those poor buggers to get massive fin and board if it's flat and then they can give you a race.

I owned a Patrik 140 litre hollow board. Used it with a Hyperglide 8m and 50 Z fin.

I would plane before the majority of foilers though they would keep going in the lulls better.

Did i enjoy using it?

No farking way.

Nigh on impossible to turn and harsh when the wind picked up in the chop.

Sold it and yet to regret it.

Bigger and heavier components with a larger sail also.

6.3 is as big as I'm going to go these days.

Yes it limits my planing threshold to about 13 knots compared to only 10 knots with the big gear but it's way more fun when on the plane.

In any case at 58 i need my rest days bad as in real farking bad.

Yesterday on the water at around 3-30pm and when i checked the time in my car after getting my wetsuit off it was 7.01pm.

Half an hour of rest talking to slowboat about CT and the rest sailing in 20 to 30 knots on the river.

Today my body is well farked but i did enjoy / love the 3 hours.

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philn said..
Nah just kidding. Please rather tell me about your last windsurfing session.

People posting about covid instead of Windsurfing sessions must be hung like a cashew.

My session yesterday, fun blasting around in the lumpy goodness except for dodging the f'ken feral baby crabs on the way out and in, angry little baskets

Had a great session today blasting around in Port Phillip Bay, down at mount Martha, mostly powered up on 4.8.

Had a great day trying and failing to recover from the ordeal of sailing in a strong breeze on Thursday.

Strong easterly in Perth today but i expect few takers.

heading back uo to SE Qld today, hoping the forecast for a decent northerly for Wednesday holds.

frig, i work two days a week, and missed the good sailing on those days for too long now. Feels like forever.
If i miss windsurfing i have serious side effects. Is that covid, or is that the vaccine side effects?
I actually know a Dr that knows. He told me that windsurfing is the answer.
Nothing but flying really matters.

Forecast looking windy for next week. Wootwoot!

It was windy today. Lots of happy sailors.

Todays lesson.

Take everything to the beach.. everything!!
Forecast, what forecast.

40+ today and my smallest sail was 5.6

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Gestalt said..
Todays lesson.

Take everything to the beach.. everything!!
Forecast, what forecast.

40+ today and my smallest sail was 5.6

Yeah. If you remembered to take a pair of scissors you could have turned the 5.6 into a 2.8

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Gestalt said..
Todays lesson.

Take everything to the beach.. everything!!
Forecast, what forecast.

40+ today and my smallest sail was 5.6

yep, i left the 4-oh in the garage because i "never use it". Made do with 4.7 with the baggiest leach you've ever seen. how did you go with 5.6

Epic session yesterday. Head to logo high waves and perfect cross shore. Life is good.

Light winds yesterday got my new big girl (JP SLW) wet , had a ball.

Wind dropped after everybody else went out, leaving me to go bigger, and buzz past all the others just floating. Really enjoyed myself.

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MarkSSC said..

Gestalt said..
Todays lesson.

Take everything to the beach.. everything!!
Forecast, what forecast.

40+ today and my smallest sail was 5.6

Yeah. If you remembered to take a pair of scissors you could have turned the 5.6 into a 2.8

I got a 2.5m

hand made by Ben Severne who is a legend!! Bit small for me but my son had a lot of fun on that sail. Can't see it ever being sold

I'm pretty sure windsurfing is the vaccine. But now i think i must have covid because this cold wont go away. And that is for sure because the wind keeps going MIA on my days off work.

99 jibes a day keeps the Dr away.
That is just about what i did on my last good session. It was magic. Sweet memories and pumped to do it again. I need a booster session now.
Windsurf or die.

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MobZ said..
I'm pretty sure windsurfing is the vaccine. But now i think i must have covid because this cold wont go away. And that is for sure because the wind keeps going MIA on my days off work.

99 jibes a day keeps the Dr away.
That is just about what i did on my last good session. It was magic. Sweet memories and pumped to do it again. I need a booster session now.
Windsurf or die.

I am with you, never had the spicy flu. If I ever feel a bit off I go for a sail and it all goes away. Nothing wrong with the wind booster shot

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Gestalt said..
Speaking of wind farms.

I once tried to hire a bunch of fans so I could hold a windsurfing event at a local rowing facility.

turns out there are no fans in Australia that could generate the wind needed.

Yes there are, film industry SFX Dept V8 powered wind machines.

Everyone knows covid is a construct by the illuminated, to suppress the sheep, egged on by the main stream media perpetuating the conspiracy theory that you need even more down haul to defeat the whale killing windmills.

Broken arm so Went to Narrabeen to torcher myself watching everyone out ripping. Took photos instead.

First time ever today I had a young bird voluntarily go down to the beach with me.
Jumped in the back of the van and wouldn't get out with a couple of threats, so I let her come.
Opened the van up when I got there and it flew off. Poor thing will probably die.

I got whacked by a juvenile stingray in Callala Bay, Jervis Bay, one time. I landed in a shallow area behind some sea grass. There seemed to be dozens of them there. Maybe like a nursery for rays. The barb wasn't released, but it still put me in some serious pain

Awesome day down in Albanakastan yesterday, huge crew out, flat water and lots of wind, plenty of stoke in the air.

Lucky baskets staying down there are going to feel butalised after 5 days of it

Exceptional day no doubt, I counted 18 PBs altogether, that's getting close to LG on a good day, without as many sailors.
The new super team had 6 sailors over 40kts!
Look out Euros.

The new normal has gone pear shaped on me. I had good spring sailing in August- September, up to 40 sessions.
Now they are very few and far between.
It's gone sub-tropical, rare seabreezes in amongst still grey days.

My last two sessions produced strange lacklustre sail success happiness.
They were mild, very mild. Yet still wild.
Up the Lake the other day, with a cold after 14 days still, i set out into light wind, grey, as the waft of stoke drifts over the Island from epic speed sessions afar unimaginable to me, I headed out thinking that atleast the bug might get blown off me. Not much wind so i kept going. Achieved my first big crossing, 5k run on RSone longboard. Sweet. I could see foils in the distance over the other side, i think i might have went faster than them. ??

Days later - Today - went shopping, indeed it was a black friday, grey and rainy. Got a Patrik F-race 120, 6.5 and 7.5 Lion.
The seller and myself both eager to get it done in case there is a date with Huey, as there always could be, i grabbed the kit without hardly looking at any of it and made my way back down the coast home.
Wind awaits. Wow, unbelievable! Strong? Cant tell. Strong enough.
'Test the shopping' day was upon me, just like that. yeeew!
In the land of Jimmy's Beach were big boards are supreme, i expect this new-to-me *small board to be a crappy, sinking, slogging endeavor as has been previous attempts on smaller craft than i'm used to.
No, it was fun. It spunout, many times, i was always smiling as it was easy to recover. I could tack it, smilingly. It showed me short glimpses of how it can dance over small chop. It promised that it is ready to do silky smooth jibes when i'm ready. It went back upwind happily.
Maybe it just felt good to get out there and i imagined the board to be this good. It was definitely another pear shaped day so i don't know.
First i used the familiar to me KA 6.4 Kult with 40cm drake.
I went for a jump start maneuver off the shallows and got flung out the front. Think i may have cracked the nose there. I think this is a good way to be happy with a used board, before looking at it to inspect for blemishes you know are going to be there, just get it out, put some in it, and know it was you who did it.
First sail here on my SLW i hit bottom and totally smashed the nose. SLW is lovely after getting fixed up and all mine now. Warts and all.
It was hard to pick the wind today. I fumbled rigging the 7.5 Lion. Never seen an RDM mast before. Perplexed sitting in the sand as the mast extension would not fit in the mast, when only hours earlier up the road i watched the seller rig it lightening fast, and that extension definitely fit in then.
I licked it for some lube, i bashed a little with my hand, i wiped with rag.
Ahuh, i'd stuck the mast together the wrong way.
Next minute i was out there trying the twin cam sail. Sweet. That'll do. Good enough.
Mobdog came as the wind went lighter and had good runs on his falcon light wind.
Is it going to blow this season again? Will the big board reign supreme and this was just an expensive shopping spree? All i know is i'm much happier spending that money on kit, rather than say a bullbar, or plane trips, or a car lift kit. Or covid test kits. Learning to fly on water seems well worth it to me.

Just arrived in South Africa for vacation and sailed the first 2 days at Paternoster north of Cape Town. Head high first day and 2 foot overhead second day. Really fun cross off wave sailing, wave peels really nicely for multiple turns and an aerial attempt off the inside close out but the wind is very gusty, and light on the inside. Heading back to Cape Town now.

An eventful day for me at Lilacs, Snapped the starboard boom arm at the head. Thought I might be able to turn the boom upside down and sail back one sided. But the locking pins had also snapped on the good side, so had absolutely no outhaul. Thankfully I was close to shore, and mates came to my rescue. Might have to spend my Tax return on a new boom.