The prize giving and races event, A lot of fun.

Wind a bit patchy but enough for the sonic and 5.8 most of the time. Missed the start of the races, was still wading out when they went of – actually caught a couple of people but then droppd the jybe.

Broke rear footstrap bolt after spending ages fiddling with setting son front straps, just thought I had them right and the back one (which I hadnt touched) snapped. It was nearly 6PM and sue was waiting so probably a good thing. Used 2nd hand choko weed fin – lovely to use.  Probably better than my “normal” one.

then when derigging realised that one boom arm was set differently to the other, might have been why it felt so strange some of the time.

Gale warning so went to Lucky bay about 9:00. Started out with the Ezzy Wave Se and Kombat, then after the rain the wind dropped so went to the Sonic and then rigged the 5.8 Koncept and putted around for a while. Mark had the right idea and went home for lunch when the wind switched off. The ezzy was a handful in the gusts, overpowered and backwinding. Still good to get some sailing in and meet up with some other people who like getting wet in the rain.

Peli Pt, was 2nd in car park at 6:30AM (Claude was waiting in his car but not rigging up). 5.8 Koncept, Sonic. Lot of fun. Bit Gusty and choppy but still enjoyable.

Realised my phone which I was using as the alarm this morning thought we had daylight saving so I was up at 5:00 – makes sense that I could get to the river by 6:30. Just thought I had packed and driven quickly.

Brought up the 2000Km in GPS Team Challenge with this sail.

Fun day, but was getting frustrated at not improving on the 2 sec speed, but once I got time to get to a computer with realspeed things looked better.

5.8KA, 30cm JP, 95l Sonic

Followed someone who was fast down into kite country / shallows then chickened out and slowed down – bad idea as you then draw more water. Then chicken jybed and hit rocks ! should have stayed out of there or just gone for it !!!

Melville from about 14:00 – 4.2 m ezzy wave (1998 and still going strong), sonic 95l

Like goldilocks, sometime too hot, sometime too cold, sometime just right.

Had fun – Dont know how you other guys manage those speeds in those conditions !

 I had one set of gusts that completely backwinded the 4.2 – dont know how windy that has to be.