site been dormant, but great memories here for me.
working on updating.
31/05/2015
maintenance
09/10/2014
Crash recovery.
Had a crash on a high wind winters day 20th June. MRI followed, lot of limping.
Nearly ran down Mark and catapulted when taking evasive action. I was completely in the wrong so glad he wasnt hurt. He said he could hear someone but had no idea where I was coming from. I was on fully powered up downwind run, forgot that everyone else who got that gust took off at around the same time. No equipment damage, landed on head on sail 😉
Left knee had two split cartilages and of course all the accumulated damage from years of sailing.
GP advised exercise therapy and time, 4 to 6 MONTHS off – been 3 and a bit now and for all normal use it feels fine. But still aching a bit sometimes and just “not right”
07/08/2013
7th August 2013 Melville
Melville, fun day not at the office. Good wind until the rain came. 5.8KA and 95 sonic and then CA speed. Finally got that new 24 MXR weed fin and tried it out. Felt fine and I was surprised how well it went on all angles. Did manage to get it to let go but thats probably just bad habits from using the bigger fin (MXR 28).
and for a few brief minutes I had “jelly beans” showing that my score actually counted for something.
The person who has the most fun wins !
Personal sailing blog http://funstuff.nanotera.com.au
Boards – CA Speed ???
Starboard Sonic 95
Kombat 79
MXR 28 weedy
MXR 24 Weedy
Choco 28 weedy
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Sails KA Koncept 7.3, 5.8, 5.0
Ezzy SE wave 5.8 5.0 4.2
27/02/2012
Mettams to Sorrento SL, JT 27-2-12
kept it down on the water most of the time as it was too windy to jump much.
Full on windy, 5m JT full on perfect, 5.4SL – bit much in the gusts.
really nice downwind wave runs, sail so luffed it was blown back / slack when holding it dead in front as surfing north (of the research @ watermans)
GREAT fun.
26/02/2012
Mettams to Sorrento SL, JT , GVB 26-2-12
Sunday sail after Petes 50th hawaian night, bit gusty as it was partly caused by a cold front passing very high. Cool change and gusts of 5m with lulls of 6m 😉
Great fun, got the board and sail half way round a big upwind jump on first run out at Mettams. Bailed out and hit the water with a big splash. Great to be powered up properly.
Front “incoming tack” footstrap pulled screw out of board so sailed unstrapped for rest of run. Not so bad as had the back one and it was the wave riding tack
Excellent sail.
very light, 5.8 Never seen so many people at the beach when its that windy.
Got the last car park at the top of the hill. Had to carry gear over sunbathers. Hot and sweaty work. But very nice on the water, so light that the water state was smooth hardly any chop. Luckily only water started twice but not too hard.
04/02/2012
Mettams to Sorrento 2012-02-
That was a real sea breeze. Mettams to Sorrento 5m (should have been 4.2 I think).
A lot more gusty than a normal breeze but that might have been the left over from Cyclone Iggy.
Bit challenging at times and some very large seas just of the marine research centre, quite surprising when water starting and in the trough just how big they were. Great fun.
29/01/2012
Pelican Point 2012-01-29
Pelican Point, gusty easterly, gave me a reason to get out the LOC rig again. 120 iSonic and 7.2 KA Koncept. Was OK when planing but a bit of a struggle to get going in the lulls. Must learn how to pump sometime ! Nice to bump into a few of the team, slept in so was a late starter.
http://www.ka72.com/TrackRecalc.aspx?fid=23900
23/01/2012
Mettams to Sorrento JT – 2012-01-23
Mettams to sorrento, now that really was too light, only fell in once and struggled to waterstart after but was enough for that. Solo sail as not enough wind for others.
http://www.ka72.com/TrackRecalc.aspx?fid=23899