Bit of a pain not having a 7m at the moment (late delivery), hardly use this size but needed it today. Wind direction was around 300 degrees, more north than west, making it very broad. Too broad for fast runs down the wall. As soon as you you boar off, you ran out of power. A 7m might have helped. I guess the very gusty winds were hovering around 25k max, some times dropping to less than 20k I think.  

After two or three runs on the W44, opted to just free-sail away from the wall.  I switched to the bigger W58 and did my runs from between the jetties and headed down wind towards the bottom west corner. This course had very mixed up chop, and even did a few small jumps. On the up side, 38 odd knots is a new W58 PB, pleased with that especially as it was not down the wall:) Not the day that we had expected, but was good fun on bumby water.

Quite a challenging day all in all. Wind was up and down. Never seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Still managed to make some improvements though.

Eventually came unstuck and had a wipe out which totalled my boom and snapped my harness line. Quite thankful to be just about in one piece apart from a bruised back.

Good to meet up with Steve Thorpe and Mark Hayford.

Forecast didn't materialise but nice session anyway. Think I missed the best of it as I didn´t arrive til 2pm by which time it was very broad. Just needed more oomph really or a bigger sail but I fancied an easyish time after last saturday.

Fin awesome even in chop and the Naish so much nicer to sail than the isonic.

Nice to be back at Kirby, see some of the crew, and meet Mark Ingram. Very pleasent day, not very quick but great to get out on the speed kit.
Generally getting high 30 peaks, but managed to latch onto some of the better gusts for the 40+ runs. You know it's not really windy when you go out on a 4.7 for a bit of freestyle. Top day, ready for some proper wind now.