by Yves Wynen
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23-3-2009 15:33:29 | |
Hevig dagje. Juist 1 uur gevaren en dat leek mij voldoende.
Toch tevreden met 6 rakken aan +65 km/uur zonder voluit te durven afvallen in de chop.
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by Peter Potvliege
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23-3-2009 17:47:56 | |
| Wind te haaks vandaag maar gezien de toch nog lage temperaturen is dat meer dan welkom aangezien je dan zonder problemen langs het dammetje kan surfen in beide richtingen. Temperatuur van het water zat vandaag op 7,8 graden waardoor ik voor het eerst dit jaar continu zonder handschoenen kon varen.
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by Frank Vanderhaeghen
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23-3-2009 19:04:53 | |
dan sta ik mss nog even op kop. Mij heel goed geamuseerd, maar chop hoppen is echt niks voor mijne bek. Heel veel op en af langs het dammeke, af en toe de chop in, maar dan ga ik altijd aan de rem hangen. Voorbeelden genoeg van hoe het moet ( van meurs, vanderhout en co) als die zich ruim laten schieten, scheelt dat met mijn route meer dan een halve hoek......
Toch een heel plezierige dag
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by Dirk Hacha
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23-3-2009 19:11:28 | |
Ramp. Mijn fysieke conditie is nog veel zwakker dan gedacht.
Na 1 rakje wist ik het al, het ging hier rap gedaan zijn.
5.8 was voor mij ook te groot (had niet veel andere keuze)
Lichtpuntje is de Missile XS. De 1ste keer mee gevaren en dat viel erg mee. Board wou maar sneller, maar het mannetje kon niet.
5de (en laatste) run leek nergens op, bleek aan de kant mijn carbon giek gebroken (op een rare plaats, midden tussen de bevestigingen van mijn trapezekoord (?)). Weeral kosten....
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by Marco Bal
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23-3-2009 20:48:10 | |
First time out with the Vapor2009 5.5m2.
Next time I'm gonna tune the sail as today: mast in, boom on and go! Haha, sail felt just great!
I had one very good run .. and that was the last one. The wind shifted a bit to perfect angle. I did not felt so fast, but: I made a PB on the 500 metres! The 10 seconds run was 68.47 and the 500 metres was 65.27 km/hr.
Also the first time with the 27cm SL7. This fin is great. It can handle quit some pressure and the boards flies over the chop.
Please give me more like these days, everything felt in place
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by Paul van der Kaaden
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23-3-2009 20:56:18 | |
Good wind today, lots of it, 5.8 was too big for me. Angle was very tight (square). Wanted to try my new board 56TE and like it a lot, but as with every new board I need to get used to it.
Jacques and Martin, were insanely fast, never seen anybody accelerate that fast, shooting themselves into the chop, very impressive! Still way behind these guys.
Gave Marco Bal a ride to the water, turns out he is faster than me, well that's last time I give him a ride ; )
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by Serge Beumer
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23-3-2009 21:29:04 | |
| Nice first session. Had to adapt to the conditions and the new sail for quite a while but improved during the day. The sail feels great! Need to do a bit more fine tuning. Had hoped for a better average but it was not to be. Congratulations Martin and Jacques, well done!
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by Jacques van der Hout
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23-3-2009 21:46:49 | |
| Right now i'm in my hotel room in France, i'm not able to post my session. I will do this tomorrow when i'm home. Or maybe Martin is able to do that with my second gt-31 without memory card i gave him.....
The one with memory card is here.
Game over, can't beat Martin anymore in conditions with 6,2 and smaller. He is super happy with the new sails and it looks like the design team made them exactly for his style of sailing.
He is flying! His 5x 2seconds average from today is 81,68! Insane in these conditions. I made a good choice to get him in the team end of last year, look forward to see him going 90+ km/h in real hardcore speed conditions.
But i managed following today;
-fastest 10 second run ever sailed on Herkingen; 78,6 km/h in THE magic windshift and gust.
-almost for sure i beat my alpha record from last week. Return speed after the gybe last week was 29 knots and today i saw sometimes 34 knots as the return speed after my gybe on my display. I look forward to see if i managed to get 55km on the alpha or not.
-5th times over 40knots 5x 10sec average this year. 74.8 or 74,9 probably.
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by Peter van Dijk
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23-3-2009 22:08:27 | |
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First time on
the water this year.
Like the
most people said, nice wind and around 90 degrees.
Accelerating
was nice, top speed was ok, average a ‘little’ disappointing.
Could not
get enough speed in the 90 degrees zone…..
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by Martin van Meurs
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23-3-2009 22:08:30 | |
| First time out on the new Evo 2 5.5. The sail feels very balanced with a low centre of effort. I am also starting to like the Venoms more with each session. The fins are super easy underfoot and it feels as if the combination with the Evo2 will be a dream combo, also in lighter winds. In the run up phase the fin feels dead secure and the feeling doesn't change at all when accellerating from 20 knots to +40 knots. All attention can go to the stance and the gusts in front of you. It really feels as if I've got the perfect combo this year. Everything is falling into place again now my leg is healed and the mental block is gone. |  |
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by Jacques van der Hout
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24-3-2009 17:29:40 | |
Posting from yesterday.
Fastest 10 seconds run ever on Herkingen; 78,77 km/h
Improved my Alpha racing again, hoped for an Alpha result of 55km/h but the speed on the first reach was 2 knots lower than my record Alpha from last week and the return speed was 4 knots higher (33 knots) than last week. New challenge to break the 55km/h or maybe the 30 knots barrier with Alpha racing.
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by Reginald Gyselinck
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24-3-2009 19:18:16 | |
| Hey Jacques, just saw that you improved my Herkingen 10s record run from 78.49 km/h to 78.77 km/h, congrats!!.... seems it's about time for me to look up Herkingen again when it storms :-)
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by Frank Vanderhaeghen
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7-4-2009 21:41:01 | |
sorry,
even test
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