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First off thanks to Daz for the USM heads up, taking the stormtracking reins off me, a job well done mate, and long my your new found skills continue :)
The day dawned windy and pretty square, with the best of the tight flow from 10am thru to 1:30 pm _25kts with gusts to 35 New Kirb weather station data). A slight bias to starboard after lunch on a wsw flow.
With sailing time null since October 2009, may main concern was just to get back out there and not worry too much about the speeds.
The 6m Stealth was rigged and set up based on my settings sheet .. lol something to help rig up based on a poor memory and infrequent sessions. Basically setup for a stock w-wnw flow 30kts.
Spent the first few runs scratching my head only seeing 35s/36s on the dial ... initial thoughts were "bugger I ve forgotton how to sail""
The lake and speedcourse was peppered with challanging obstacles (freeriders) spoiling several 10s runs with "oh sh*t evasive action required!"
On one such avoidance measures, resulted in me bearing off in to the chop ... woo hoo the 40kts was back on the dial. "ahhh" thought me, time to make some changes to the rig for a tight course, so I did the opposite of what i ought to have done and put a couple of cms of -ve on the outhaul, and dropped the mastfoot back a couple too. speeds actually went up slightly contrary to the changes I made. I guess I should have downhauled 2-3cms more, adding a little more twist off and flatten the foil a notch, and run with neutral outhaul? ... not sure though.
Still... as most speedies found, speeds were well down on what ought to have been acheived.
The run of the day.
About 3 pm El squally hit, been watching its progression towards WK for 20mins or so, so was ready to grab a ride when it hit.
Neil and Chris were on it first, probably a little too quick out of the starting blocks for the best of it, I waited another min or two and grabbed nice ride down on the westerly gust of 30kts or thereabouts, 41+ peak with a 40+ 10 avg ....and the setup and stance felt good again. A few more speedies tracked down in the squall grabbing a decent ride... and that was it save a ittle more squalliness later in the day that Mark grabbed hold of :)
Great to be back at WK and sailing again with a great bunch of fellow speedies!
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