Jonny Vapor lent me his Falcon 90, with a Black Diamond fin, which was a nice set up. Johnny has his straps extremely close together and I was having trouble bearing away without tail walking. I stuck the track further forward and was still having issues. So I put the front straps further forward by around 30mm. This transformed the trim of the board. Sadly the wind started to drop, but it felt a lot more secure in the chop.

The twin cam Wind Speed could have handled lots more wind, so with the half decent forecast on Tuesday. I’m looking forward to a good session. The Black Diamond fin didn’t spin out once. Wuberly 

Great to get on a Formula Board after 4 or so years. I managed to finally get one over this summer after a long time considering it, and had decided to get a smaller formula rig to give a good higher windrange, yet still the capability to plane in 10knots,  picking up an older starboard and Tush for not much. The setup works well but the mast is an old pryde CK75 with an IMCS of 30 which is too stiff for the sail, giving it a small belly and tight leech. Wind was pretty good today for Formula but it did take me some time to get used to the gear, upwind was very hard work indeed and a fantastic workout on the arms but downwind I felt as though I could take a lot more wind on this 9m. Felt unusual being on a vast rig whilst others were crusing around on 5m wavesails.  Overall Sailed very conservatively and did not really try any solid downwind sailing at the south end of the lake where the wind was best, but with a bit of tuning, a soft mast and possibly a better fin than this basic one,  this kit will go over 30 knots for sure. Totally made up with this session, and looking forward to the next one.

Good to see Simon Hinkley posting some good speeds on a Falcon - Nice one :-)