by Andrew Watkins
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1-1-2009 12:14:38 | |
Wind too west again but howling.
Had broken my 400cm mast two days before so it wasnt looking like i'd get a sail in, but Andrew Daff lent me a 70%C 400cm jobbie and it worked a treat. (THANKS ANDREW!!)
OK, my speeds will look stupidly slow compared to the real speed freaks out that day, but i was on a freestyle wave board with a wave sail (which still had a hole in the luff sleeve from the mast breaking 2 days earlier).
So, I'm happy...
Again, its a great sport when people help you out for no other rwason than you're there at the beach.
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by Craig Hollins
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1-1-2009 13:07:56 | |
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A very good way to start the New year.I was going to sail with John at Inverloch but ended up making the trip to the Pit trip. Our best times were done on the incomming tide with all its lumps and bumps. The wind backed off as the strip started to smooth off.I ran the CA 40 with the KA 5.8 and 5 and used the TMV7 and TM 26 fins. Pushed the 26 to a new Pb according to Mal,just love that fin. I mainly use it as a distance fin but as a GP speed fin it rocks. No spin out once up to speed and didn,t even hint at being over powered,even at 41.8. Had a bash at Nm,s but just couldn,t get it together,unlike Spotty with his KA 6.6. Its great that we now have a Nm course
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by Mal Wright
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1-1-2009 13:54:26 | |
| Could be better. Got some wind from the right direction for about an hour which made the difference but missed getting 5 good runs.
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by Andrew Daff
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1-1-2009 14:06:03 | |
Best day so far this year! ;-)
A very nice day actually with some very steady even wind. Not really any squalls, the wind just varied slightly over longer periods. Mostly WSW but occasionally swinging back to the west and even almost WNW at times.
High tide was at 5.30pm so there was an hour or two where it was not ideal. When the tide started to drop the wind got a bit more variable but I thought it had picked up at one stage so I finally grabbed my 4.4m and first run was the best all day. Should have switched down a lot earlier from the 5m. Even when the wind eased back a bit it was easier to pull high 41's than earlier when I was on the 5m. The upside was that I think I now know how I have to tune the 5m to get the same feeling.
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by Mathew Robertson
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1-1-2009 14:28:38 | |
| Some PB's so it must have been pretty good... :)
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by Tony Wynhoven
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1-1-2009 16:04:41 | |
2.00 am and just got home from another fun day @ the Pit.
Missed the morning session when top speeds were done so it was a mision to get what I could out of what wind there was left. Even in the gusts, another 5 kn would have been good. The 09 5.8 was awesome again though, considering how windy it wasn't....
Congrats to Mal, Daffy, Spotty and all the crew for turning out some great times.
Happy new year!!
All speeds DOPPLER off the gt11 (non doppler speeds were MUCH better!!)
cheers Tony
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by Tom Chalko
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2-1-2009 09:16:11 | |
This is the first time I tried GT31 sound system in the helmet. I could not hear the "bio-feedback" sounds during speed runs (more work to do!), but amazingly, results were well heard well when I stopped sailing or sailed upwind. I did not have a GPS on my hand and from GT31 sounds I could predict my 5*10 average with 0.1 knot accuracy - just from sound messages. The speed result sounds had to be repeated few times before I could be sure that I "read" the m correctly.
I tried 4 sails, 2 boards and 2 fins during this ~10 hour session on both sides on a high tide. Now I have a slightly better idea what equipment and its tuning is needed for what conditions.
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by Brad McSwain
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4-1-2009 08:42:16 | |
Only 1 really good run early, then struggled with the incoming tide.
5th best was on a 5.0m Koncept.
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