Good fun day! Until I had to stop because the arthritis in my right big toe joint was killing me with all the walking back!

Wind 25-30kt WSW to SW. Swinging around a bit but not hard to pick out some good runs when the angle was OK.

I got to the inlet at about 9AM thinking I should have been earlier as the wind had started to pick up. I found that I could not have got in earlier anyhow with the tide just starting to drop. By the time I rigged Mat Langer arrived, closely followed by Spotty and Martin.

Rigged 2014 5.4m Koncept with CA40 and Tribal/Lockwood 18cm to try it out. It was great!

Went with about 6KG in my vest but the first run was only just over 40 knots. I walked back slowly waiting for the tide to drop a bit and by the time I did the next the wind was a bit more solid and a saw a 44.32 kts peak! Nice, but only 42.25 10 sec. Got two more 43-peak/42-10's and the wind seemed to die. Wenr back for the slalom board and took 3kg of weight out. Bad move! as soon as I hit the run the wind was back up again so I went straight back for the CA40 and managed another couple of good runs for the 42 average.

By then my toe was killing me so I retired hurt.

Tribal/Lockwood 18cm felt really solid and safe and accelerated great in the puffs when off the wind. It's a keeper, along with the 16.5cm!