The forecasts suggested this would be an Epic speed day. They were not too far wrong, with PBs and a possible new  WGPSSC 10 second record. We arrived early at around 9am to rig and prepare for the forecast midday wind swing from WNW to WSW, only to find the tide blocking access. We retired to the Daff residence for a bit of bench racing until we noticed the change come through (with a lot of rain) a couple of hours later.  A rigging frenzy followed and some of the early runs were very promising. The wind was coming through in squalls. Lulls were about 30 knots and squalls up to around 40-45.

I rigged my 4.4m and 4m Koncepts and used CA40 with my trusty 20cm assy KA-Lockwood fin.

I was strugging to find my comfort zone today. Despit wearing 6 kilos, on the first few runs I felt like I was on my tip toes and sheeted out with the 4.4m and the course felt too tight. After a while I started to pick the more westerly wind swings and my speeds improved and I gained confidence to push it. The tide was coming in most of my session, but because it was not a very low tide to start with, the current was quite mild and the water stayed very flat. My best speeds came near the end of the session. Just after my best run I switched to the Koncept 4m as I needed to test it with a new mast combination. It worked great but after two runs I was too tired to continue safely and we were out of tide, time to get out before I was trapped.

Great to watch the young blokes excell today! Very sorry that Peter smashed his face up on his board in a big crash. Get well soon Pete.