Unbelievable stuff!!

This has been much more exciting than the AFL finals!

A huge congratulations to my fellow SRM team members for an awesome last ditch effort today in stealing the October title away from those Bug Munchers who have such a voracious appetite!

Well done guys, and a special mention must go to our local GP the Fremantle Doctor who has turned it on for us when it counted!

Well done boys,

Huge effort there Steve congrats on the 200+

Nice 1 hr Chris

Awesome effort Snides. I was waiting on the beach for you to come in so I could collect that disc.. I gave up in the end... I thought you were going to sail all night!

Bloody hell Snides you must live on the water mate well done.
Also big 1 hour from Chris big effort.
Well done done guys huge team effort to knock us off again bugger last min stuff too haha.

Snides and Claude have developed the remarkable ability to actually sleep while windsurfing. This is the key to their long distance sailing abilities.

Snides will often hit the water and fall asleep even before his first gybe, then wake up to find he has sailed 120km and is no longer in sight of land. He then begins to find his way back.

It's a formula that's hard to beat.

Snides is a machine!

Well done guys thats is a great team effort.

cheers guys the real winner this month, I.MO. was the challenge it self.
outstanding sailing by the moreton bay boys has pushed the standards to a new level that is going to be a challenge in it self to maintain over the next couple of months.
the result yesterday was a classic example of a 'team effort', which is what this is all about,i think just about all the guys contributed something over the course of the month.
The real "machine" of the team is Claude, i think he prob averages 100km just about every time he goes out!!!
i really had no plan to sail as much as i did yesterday, i had plans of having abreak around the 130k mark to see how the other guys where going but it seemed they where concentrating more on the hour effort so i figured if 1 of them clocked a 60 or seventy we may still be short on the o/a average so i kept going, if it wasn't for the lack of light and wind 250 was looking very doable...maybe next time- after this sail on the river i think 300 is very doable at mandurah so we will have to wait and see.
SRM has a team full of talented sailors and thus it is becoming difficult to remain relevant due to the other guys great sailing,so if i can contribute in clocking up k's in tandem with Claude then so be it.......any way its another month now and all that is old news

just added a google snap of the snail trails in the pic section if anybody g.a.f...

Just had a look at that image, so a dumb question snides,
It's been 10 years since I sailed the Swan, so I can't work out where your launching from, is it opp Pelli point ?

Cheers,
Bob.

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firiebob said...

Just had a look at that image, so a dumb question snides,
It's been 10 years since I sailed the Swan, so I can't work out where your launching from, is it opp Pelli point ?

Cheers,
Bob.

Firie,pelican point is actually the tip of land closest to the centre of the picture.
if you look west from there,the pelican point carpark is where the trails all sort of sprout from,Perth cbd is up in the right hand corner(out of picture).

Hey 25 don’t you trust me mate judging by you comments you haven’t forgotten yet mate. Ah that was a good year wasn’t it. Shame you didn’t come to the Als speed fortnight this it was good fun.
Well let’s hope Nov brings good winds to all.
ta Vando

Snides , it is a pity gps-ss doesn't have a ranking category for dist. There's a suggestion!

ummmm... nice thought but i guess its a speed thing... Claude would have to be close to the top if not on top.
besides its not the most rewarding pursuit sailing backwards and forwards for hours on end dodging yachts and ferrys and bloody tea bags!
(thanks Nebs i get the point)

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snides8 said...
besides its not the most rewarding pursuit sailing backwards and forwards and f@#king tea bags!

Whatever floats your boat, man.

Thanks snides, I got it now, had the map upside down, had a few rums after todays sail

I was over there for a couple of months, and sailed Peli & Mellvile mostly, and Dutchies. Also sailed easterlies in the morning opp Pelli, from a park with a little jetty.

Used to downwind from Melville to Pelli and work my way back, rough trip down when the wind was up.

Cheers.