Good weekend of sailing good turn up both days to sandstone 7 or 8 sailers both days a few new faces to sandstone break trought day for me planing in footstraps in harness, hope to see jeff back soon thanks everybody for a good weekend

Great 2 days of sailing on the weekend.
Hopefully have my sail repaired by this weekend. Still cant figure out how I ended up with a foot long hole just above the boom where it is. There were a few good offs though on the Sunday morning.

Hey John, are you looking at the arrows here, or getting your forecast from somewhere else?

Sorry mate, right you are. I was looking at Saturday as I am not sure if I can make on Sunday as yet.
Might try and have a bit of a session after lunch Saturday, as I am going to be on the Island before that.

Broken foot on the mend- Mid day high tides - great wind what's a pensioner to do???

Explore an old passion ;-)
Looking out over the Sunshine Coast hinterland from Bald Nob..




However.... Foot needs some rehab.
Reckon I'm up for a sail tomorrow morning before the winds get nuclear.
Sandstone point from 9am tomorrow morning

Who's in????

Cheers Jeff

Good to hear from you,we all missed you and especially at the last weekend at Sandstone Point!We had a great time and the wind was pretty good.Started practicing my water starts and got on 4 times.Also got into the harness again and had a few crashes but it's all part of the wonderful experience.Tony and myself are trying to keep up with the Coffee supply for the time beeing,hopefully you can join us again soon.All the best from us and see you soon

Hey Jeff, pretty sure that's my old Ricochet there judging by those custom flap pushrods! Classic brilliant sailplane. Great shot at a great spot. This one was taken at the same spot years ago and my knees used to knock together each time I launched it!

Paddles B'mere said..
Is anyone sailing tomorrow at Sandstone? I was thinking of heading over around lunchtime.

Yeah I was thinking of heading over for a sail, do you need booties there? normally sail at beachmere I have never needed them there.

Have fun guys,i might see you on saturday

Looks like we're good for SE on Sunday and 15 nots or so too!

After a few work-related delays, Janet and I escaped to Sandstone Point this morning, arriving a bit before 11am. We had the place to ourselves. I swore and groaned continuously rigging up with a really painful back, bum, knees, wrists and more from some recent dirt bike-related bruising plus some long term resident arthritis and disc problems etc. It wasn’t fun. I reckon getting up from the downhaul position I must have looked like a soldier trying to get back to the trenches after nearly being killed by a hail of shrapnel.

Janet took off with the Blade 5.7 and sailed straight into that tree branch, puncturing several holes in the top of the sail. Oh well, thank God we got it cheap 2nd hand, and that it has Xply so the small holes won’t spread! She had a great session trying to enact the Youtube gybe tutorial we’d both watched just before leaving home. Occasionally with some success. I sat groaning and miserable on the park bench until my inability to sit still got the better of me, and I slowly and stiffly rigged the North 6.6.

After the usual 25 “last minute” things (the people who’d now parked in the carpark must have been bemused), and just as John arrived, I dragged the rig out and got going on the Mistral Explosion. It’s a well-named board, because when I ride it there are lots of crashes that resemble explosions. The conditions turned out to be pretty much perfect for our rigs and like Janet I straight away had a crack at gybing and … wow!! The first one was awkward, but successful!! Much cheering, but a result never to be repeated for the next hour or so. The frustration got more intense and the swearing more frequent. Every attempt ended with me in the water seething “I have no f^#!ing idea what I’m doing!!!”. Also not helped by the fact that I couldn’t get my foot into the manky old left front footstrap even when I loosened it so I often just rounded up or crashed trying to get locked in on that run.

We finally both stopped for a lunch break, talked to John and then to Jonno who’d just arrived - and we feasted on some of Janet’s EXCELLENT pea and ham soup heated on the camp stove. And after hearing my analysis and feedback from my first session (“I f^#!ken hate windsurfing!!”) she insisted that we swap boards. So she went out for her first session on the Explosion and I hopped on the Bic Metal Rock. Aaaaaah. It was like pouring oil on turbulent waters. Like a soothing balm on injured skin. All the earlier frustrations evaporated. The board felt comfortable, fast, and good - in fact the whole thing felt like a different experience. It pointed higher, I could go about, and when I tried to carve gybe IT WORKED!!! Before long I was doing runs back and forth without spending ages floundering in the sea fighting with the rig! I was grinning again. I came in feeling pretty darn good with some of the >25 year old windsurfing hormones back in the blood.

So I’m now thinking that despite all this hype about new boards, I might actually take Jeff’s and Janet’s advice and chase up another Bic Metal Rock!

yes I am going sandstone tomorrow

I might come for sail - been a while since I've been to Sandstone.

Janet and I are now considering going to Sandstone after lunch tomorrow (Sunday). Depending on sorting out alternative family arrangements etc

I'm thinking about heading over sometime after lunch