Mettams to Sorrento. 5m SE Ezzy. Great Australia day sail. Plenty of wind for the 5 and water conditions seemed a lot nicer than yesterday. Went ashore at Watermans and put a hole in the board on the rocks where there used to be a beach. Great Day.
26/01/2011
Mettams to Sorrento – 2011-01-26 JT SL ?
20/01/2011
jt sl mettams to sorrento 2011 01 20
wind was in early
steve rigged 5.4 jt 5.0
lot of sailors and a couple of kites at mettams,
gav rigging up on beach
good sail but wind a little patchy
20/01/2011
Mettasm ot Sorrento 2011-01-20
Mettams to Sorrento – 5m Ezzy SE Wave, 79l Kombat. good sail, a bit gusty but with some solid patches. A lot of weed and seaslug things.
conditions – 20-25 Knots SSW sea breeze. ? swell. Tide rising in the afternoon.
spot on 2pm start
rigged 6.5 and sonic (decided day before to go that – biggest rig).
Wind had turned to ssw at 11 so knew it was on.
only issue on test run was weed bank in line of start position.
got good pos in 4th row in line with walkway
followed crowd down to start – once ankle deep figured I could go all the sideways I wanted and waided up to get clear, plodded out and once got out of the wind shadow was of.
no weed or wave problems on way to first mark.
got first jybe and starting to get hot and sweaty.
trying to milk downwind using waves, getting it but arches of feet start to get very sore (maybe I was pulling up on the straps). Quite a lot of floaty stuff when too far off the wind and just loosing it.
seemed to have helped as I didnt need another tack to avoid the reef
fell of there I think ? lovely cool refreshment, actually waited a few extra seconds to cool down.
then waterstarted on the way out, good run passing some, seeing same sail number, then not seeing it
is that a good or bad thing ?
second outside – was also downwind (unusual)
got some more downwind advantage on this one I think
? cant remember
second in – not as downwind as usual
I think this was the bit where I Was just enjoying myself, perfect coasty , great wind, gear all working and the right size.
third out ?
lovely line of white water (small) on the way back out ofter jybing , ended up woosing it and going for upwind end and safety.
couldnt find next mark. found mass of sailors and police boat , all a bit confused.
did glince on the horizon way out to sea and north a small boat and a kite. thought – this will do – and headed back in to south passage and beach.
good fast race in with a couple of others to finish.
was a bit slack in not running, figured there wasnt that much of a hurry.
got a 74th – should be a DNF but then again noone protested.
last mark ? –
normal
25/10/2010
JT GVB 2010-10-25
Cruisy Mettams to Sorrento, Kombat 79l 5.8 Ezzy SE Wave. Nice and relaxing feeding time run.
Got off the water just before the sun set.
23/10/2010
JT SL GVB Mettams to Sorrento
Mettams to Sorrento,
had an “Andrew Symonds” moment and ignored the cricket game in progress
Quick sail as discovered a tear in the tendon in my mast base so took it pretty easy most of the time.
5m Ezzy wave, Kombat 79 – perfect most of the time.
Steve wouldnt swap my bodgy torn one for his nice new one even though his was too long ;-=)
so i sailed in close
Steve broke harness, Gav trashed sail and I had torn mastbase tendon. Great day out.
Got all the way around on my upwind jump tack thing (got the board all the way around but landing on back in water with sail still the other way. All a bit of fun.
12/10/2010
JT ??? Metts to Sorrento
Lazy late mettams to sorrento. sun had set by the time we were getting of the water, kept thinking “feeding time” with every water start. rigged 5.0 SE Wave, bad idea, Kombat 79l.
A lot of fun to be carving at the beginning but very tiring as the wind switched of and I wasnt planing for the second half.
10/10/2010
JT Melville
Melville, 6.5 ezzy Sonic
Great fun but very tiring, the extremes of plodding along and barely water starting to gusts trying to rip the rig out of your hands. Last sail for the winter ?
Used the sonic and the 6.5 ezzy infinity. A bit worried about getting out at Mettams but it got over the breaking wave and white water no problems. New harness lines and boom all wrong but still a great sail.
Steve on new board and sail (JP 99 l and 5.8 NP).
Gav back from up north and keen to get out. 5.8 m as well.
31/03/2010
SL JT Mettams to Watermans
Very light wind coastrun, only got as far as Watermans and the wind switched of completely. Still at least we got out (got wet when I ducked under a wave after landing at Watermans, it was quite hot and sweaty!) Kombat 79, 5.8 Ezzy SE
At the beginning the wind was OK but it switched of completely by Watermans, probably lucky to make it that far.
