Lake George, SA, AU

18-25kt S SSE
iSonic 94l 60cm, KA 5.8m Koncept, Atomic fins, first bit then Atomic  19cm carbon proto Nuclear Weed,

then last third or so, JP Speed Racing 50cm 65 L with the carbon fin.

Powered  up and could handle te gusts and bullets wit all the differen gear, extra 2 kg weight- satisfying at least, nice blast again to cockies from 5 mile

almost topped the speed board with the 94L/Weedweapon on the last run in before putting the carbon one in, both were good for the day but,
maybe should have stayed on it- if it works don... I did, as usual.

Lake George, South Australia.

Another fun day. Not much wind but enough for a good blast. LOT's of sails on the lake today and I had my head on a swivel. Dezza snuk up behind me and tapped my bum which was exciting! 

After a few other close calls I exited down the the spit and Kevs bay. Boy, the weed there is thick now. I nearly got stuck going upwind even with a 20cm Delta fin!!! There was not more speed down there so I climbed back up again.

Came in for a rest as Kato set out on his Marathon attempt.

I went down and tried to chase him with the video for a couple of laps but I couldnt keep up with him!!! He was MOTORING! I was doing between 25 and 30 knots and he was pulling away from me by about half a knot and looking O' so Relaxed. I would not be surprided if he has a 27 kt hour in his first couple of hrs.(He had a 28kt hr in his furst hour!!!)

I went back to beachport and got some dinner and waited for him to come in at dusk for his rest stop. He was a bit chilled so he changed his wetsuit to his 4/3, filled up his water bags and stocked up on some energy bars. 

He came in just before 11pm again to get his big board and sail as the wind had eased and was off again. 'See you at Dawn was his last proclimation.

I'm off to sleep. 

IS80, Atomic Nuclear 20cm, KA 2022 Race 5.7m

Lake George, South Australia.

Another fun day. Not much wind but enough for a good blast. LOT's of sails on the lake today and I had my head on a swivel. Dezza snuk up behind me and tapped my bum which was exciting! 

After a few other close calls I exited down the the spit and Kevs bay. Boy, the weed there is thick now. I nearly got stuck going upwind even with a 20cm Delta fin!!! There was not more speed down there so I climbed back up again.

Came in for a rest as Kato set out on his Marathon attempt.

I went down and tried to chase him with the video for a couple of laps but I couldnt keep up with him!!! He was MOTORING! I was doing between 25 and 30 knots and he was pulling away from me by about half a knot and looking O' so Relaxed. I would not be surprided if he has a 27 kt hour in his first couple of hrs.(He had a 28kt hr in his furst hour!!!)

I went back to beachport and got some dinner and waited for him to come in at dusk for his rest stop. He was a bit chilled so he changed his wetsuit to his 4/3, filled up his water bags and stocked up on some energy bars. 

He came in just before 11pm again to get his big board and sail as the wind had eased and was off again. 'See you at Dawn was his last proclimation.

I'm off to sleep. 

IS80, Atomic Nuclear 20cm, KA 2022 Race 5.7m

This post has been a long time coming due to log on issues with the site, posting the track file (Too big) and just plain bad connection issues. Coupled with my terrible understanding of all things computer related.  A huge thanks to Andrew Daff who got the file to the site...;.Lots of phone calls and back and forth typing. A big thumbs up to Jan and Dylan who sorted out the logon issue.

The 24hr record has been accepted and ratified by the

World GPSSpeedSurfingRecordComittee and I'm currently waiting on the Guiness Word Records for ratification. This will make it easier for the next person to chase a new 24hr result.

2 GPS are needed for the records and both were very close 

GPS1 19.071 Kts x 24hr

GPS2 19.070 Kts x 24hr

Distance recorded 847.651Km , Claim record 836.02km

Amazing number for a cheap consumer GPS

My body has taken a bit longer to recover than I thought, can still sail and surf but still stuff hurts and a day session takes its toll. Although the 24hr was what I was chasing for the day I was surprised to get Pb's in the 1 Hr and Alpha. Maybe I should chase a few more of these and have my rest and beers earlier.

 Below is the write up from GPS Team Challenge a day after the attempt. Enjoy

A big thanks to Andrew Daff for keeping an eye on me, encouraging me to keep going after 22 hrs.  A big thanks to Jill from the Bridesmaids - you're awesome! For setting up the 2 lights at cockies - 4 km round trip walking in water and mud.  I even got the gybe around you! 

A thanks to the many - who helped pick up boards/ gear in the water/ mud - and generally encouraging me to keep going.  Thanks for Fei for typing this up for the second time, and i'm dictating this to her as she can type far better than i can.   

With all my 24 hr attemps - ive always stopped when i ran out of wind. And i really wanted to do a 24 hr sail with wind throughout the challenge. This forecast was the best i've seen with 10-20 knts during the night. Game on!  

6 yrs ago Matt Robinson and I worked out a plan for sucking the fun out of the 24 hr challenge.  This invovled 10 min breaks every 4 hours. With that plan - i started at 4 pm 14 February 2022. 

SL54, Atomic weed weapon 24 (its first run out ever), koncept 6.6

Magic conditions. Swell lines with glassy conditions for gybing. Great for eating kms.  

First stop at 8pm.  More water onboard, quick snack of peanut butter, jam and cheese sandwich.  Changed to night time mode - helmet with lights and mast top light. Lighter winds so changed to SL78, Fangy fin, KA race 7.7. I'm excited about my first night sail with a full moon. As I've always night sailed with just stars. Magic experience sailing under full moon with moon shadows and just a couple of stars for company. Could see the foam lines and just kept square to those aimig for the night lights each run.  The water was so flat that i could see my tracks after the gybe. The wind kept changing angles but the positioning of the night lights were perfect and i could change bouys i was aiming for. 

Midnight. End Part 1. 

Lake George, SA, AU

Midnight +1min.   

Woohoo! Peanut butter and cheese sandwich again. Gels are going down slowly. More water onboard. No time for chat or rest - back on to it. 

Still having fun - awesome conditions, but the wind is getting lighter. 

4am stop. Really light winds, getting hard. Going to have to rig up the 9m. Tone arrived to check on me and gave me a hand to rig up the 9m - not thinking that we would need it.  

The 9m was perfect to get me going in very light shifty wind. Still great conditions but alot harder.  Back feet and knee are really talking to me.  Still great runs in the smooth water across to cockies. No more moon and no more mast top light - sailing in complete darkness with just star light and a couple of shooting stars to see by.  Gybing via the brail system.  Can still see - but just.   

5am - unscheduled stop. Wind has picked up so back to the 7.7m Koncept. 

Kept sailing on this and didnt do the  scheduled 8am stop and kept going till 9 am. 

Swaped to the 6.6 as the wind had picked up. This is going to be a great day sailing! 

By the way i really hate the mud - its really hard to walk in with tired legs. 

9.30am stop. Wind dropped off again. Back to the 7.7m. 

12 pm stop. More water, changed back to the 6.6m - its getting windy! 

Chased some long Kms all over the lake. Joined by Pete Johnson who is going to back up some kms for the team challenge. The wind has really picked up and its starting to get really lumpy.  Huey is not making this easy for me.  Wind gusting to 25 knts, lumpy lake and well and truly worn out body. 

Came in at 2pm - had enough! Wind has picked up, it is 30 knts. Back is gone, knee is gone. Holes in feet and hands. No more sandwiches left! I want to go home.  Daffy then looked at my numbers and stated that i had to do another 50 km in 1.5 hrs to finish what i started to do. 

Grabbed the smaller, 5.7 on the 52 and proceeded into the chaos of the chop of lake george. The wind and the sea was insane - gusty, choppy, tired legs, tired body - i did 20 long laps of the lake hoping that it would add up to 20 km. Stuff 50 km.  I'm done. 

Got back to the car - stuck in the mud probably 20 m from the shore. Too exhausted to move.  Daz from the bridesmaids came and grabed all my gear to take me in. A big thanks! 

No Daffy.  He is out chasing 40 knots on the speed board.  To keep the integrity of the data, i hand over all my FOUR GPS' to nicole. To gaurd with her life. I'm not doing this again! 

 Some of my gear had been packed up but i finished the day putting back the gear for the very short drive back to Southern Ocean Caravan Park. 

Out of the wetsuit finally, and into a nice hot shower before eating left overs and catching up with Daffy on what the results were, as i had no idea of the distance i had sailed. After checking four GPS' the conclusion was that i had collected 3 PBs! I was shocked! 

I was aiming for one PB - but to get 3 is insane! The final total distance was 830 km. Absolutely stoked! Bedtime. 

16 Feb 2022 

breakfast in the morning. Daffy announces that he made a mistake last night with the data. He forgot to turn off the filter for zero speed - so turns out my total distance was 848 km! Now i'm really shocked!  

Still got all the bouys to pick up tomorrow.  But i might be off the windsufer for a while. But man it was great fun.  

SL78 Fangy 28 KA Race 7.7

SL54 Atomic weed weapon 24 Koncept 6.6

SL52 Atomic weed 20 Koncept 5.7 

Big thanks to Carbon Art, KA Sails, and Martin Love for their wonderful boards, sails and fins. I couldn't do any of this without their great commitment to the sport. 

To all my friends, family in and out of the windsurfing family, thanks for all your love and support during this crazy adventure. I'm done.   

Lake George, South Australia.

Another fun day. Not much wind but enough for a good blast. LOT's of sails on the lake today and I had my head on a swivel. Dezza snuk up behind me and tapped my bum which was exciting! 

After a few other close calls I exited down the the spit and Kevs bay. Boy, the weed there is thick now. I nearly got stuck going upwind even with a 20cm Delta fin!!! There was not more speed down there so I climbed back up again.

Came in for a rest as Kato set out on his Marathon attempt.

I went down and tried to chase him with the video for a couple of laps but I couldnt keep up with him!!! He was MOTORING! I was doing between 25 and 30 knots and he was pulling away from me by about half a knot and looking O' so Relaxed. I would not be surprided if he has a 27 kt hour in his first couple of hrs.(He had a 28kt hr in his furst hour!!!)

I went back to beachport and got some dinner and waited for him to come in at dusk for his rest stop. He was a bit chilled so he changed his wetsuit to his 4/3, filled up his water bags and stocked up on some energy bars. 

He came in just before 11pm again to get his big board and sail as the wind had eased and was off again. 'See you at Dawn was his last proclimation.

I'm off to sleep. 

IS80, Atomic Nuclear 20cm, KA 2022 Race 5.7m

This post has been a long time coming due to log on issues with the site, posting the track file (Too big) and just plain bad connection issues. Coupled with my terrible understanding of all things computer related.  A huge thanks to Andrew Daff who got the file to the site...;.Lots of phone calls and back and forth typing. A big thumbs up to Jan and Dylan who sorted out the logon issue.

The 24hr record has been accepted and ratified by the

World GPSSpeedSurfingRecordComittee and I'm currently waiting on the Guiness Word Records for ratification. This will make it easier for the next person to chase a new 24hr result.

2 GPS are needed for the records and both were very close 

GPS1 19.071 Kts x 24hr

GPS2 19.070 Kts x 24hr

Distance recorded 847.651Km , Claim record 836.02km

Amazing number for a cheap consumer GPS

My body has taken a bit longer to recover than I thought, can still sail and surf but still stuff hurts and a day session takes its toll. Although the 24hr was what I was chasing for the day I was surprised to get Pb's in the 1 Hr and Alpha. Maybe I should chase a few more of these and have my rest and beers earlier.

 Below is the write up from GPS Team Challenge a day after the attempt. Enjoy

A big thanks to Andrew Daff for keeping an eye on me, encouraging me to keep going after 22 hrs.  A big thanks to Jill from the Bridesmaids - you're awesome! For setting up the 2 lights at cockies - 4 km round trip walking in water and mud.  I even got the gybe around you! 

A thanks to the many - who helped pick up boards/ gear in the water/ mud - and generally encouraging me to keep going.  Thanks for Fei for typing this up for the second time, and i'm dictating this to her as she can type far better than i can.   

With all my 24 hr attemps - ive always stopped when i ran out of wind. And i really wanted to do a 24 hr sail with wind throughout the challenge. This forecast was the best i've seen with 10-20 knts during the night. Game on!  

6 yrs ago Matt Robinson and I worked out a plan for sucking the fun out of the 24 hr challenge.  This invovled 10 min breaks every 4 hours. With that plan - i started at 4 pm 14 February 2022. 

SL54, Atomic weed weapon 24 (its first run out ever), koncept 6.6

Magic conditions. Swell lines with glassy conditions for gybing. Great for eating kms.  

First stop at 8pm.  More water onboard, quick snack of peanut butter, jam and cheese sandwich.  Changed to night time mode - helmet with lights and mast top light. Lighter winds so changed to SL78, Fangy fin, KA race 7.7. I'm excited about my first night sail with a full moon. As I've always night sailed with just stars. Magic experience sailing under full moon with moon shadows and just a couple of stars for company. Could see the foam lines and just kept square to those aimig for the night lights each run.  The water was so flat that i could see my tracks after the gybe. The wind kept changing angles but the positioning of the night lights were perfect and i could change bouys i was aiming for. 

Midnight. End Part 1. 

Lake George, SA, AU

Midnight +1min.   

Woohoo! Peanut butter and cheese sandwich again. Gels are going down slowly. More water onboard. No time for chat or rest - back on to it. 

Still having fun - awesome conditions, but the wind is getting lighter. 

4am stop. Really light winds, getting hard. Going to have to rig up the 9m. Tone arrived to check on me and gave me a hand to rig up the 9m - not thinking that we would need it.  

The 9m was perfect to get me going in very light shifty wind. Still great conditions but alot harder.  Back feet and knee are really talking to me.  Still great runs in the smooth water across to cockies. No more moon and no more mast top light - sailing in complete darkness with just star light and a couple of shooting stars to see by.  Gybing via the brail system.  Can still see - but just.   

5am - unscheduled stop. Wind has picked up so back to the 7.7m Koncept. 

Kept sailing on this and didnt do the  scheduled 8am stop and kept going till 9 am. 

Swaped to the 6.6 as the wind had picked up. This is going to be a great day sailing! 

By the way i really hate the mud - its really hard to walk in with tired legs. 

9.30am stop. Wind dropped off again. Back to the 7.7m. 

12 pm stop. More water, changed back to the 6.6m - its getting windy! 

Chased some long Kms all over the lake. Joined by Pete Johnson who is going to back up some kms for the team challenge. The wind has really picked up and its starting to get really lumpy.  Huey is not making this easy for me.  Wind gusting to 25 knts, lumpy lake and well and truly worn out body. 

Came in at 2pm - had enough! Wind has picked up, it is 30 knts. Back is gone, knee is gone. Holes in feet and hands. No more sandwiches left! I want to go home.  Daffy then looked at my numbers and stated that i had to do another 50 km in 1.5 hrs to finish what i started to do. 

Grabbed the smaller, 5.7 on the 52 and proceeded into the chaos of the chop of lake george. The wind and the sea was insane - gusty, choppy, tired legs, tired body - i did 20 long laps of the lake hoping that it would add up to 20 km. Stuff 50 km.  I'm done. 

Got back to the car - stuck in the mud probably 20 m from the shore. Too exhausted to move.  Daz from the bridesmaids came and grabed all my gear to take me in. A big thanks! 

No Daffy.  He is out chasing 40 knots on the speed board.  To keep the integrity of the data, i hand over all my FOUR GPS' to nicole. To gaurd with her life. I'm not doing this again! 

 Some of my gear had been packed up but i finished the day putting back the gear for the very short drive back to Southern Ocean Caravan Park. 

Out of the wetsuit finally, and into a nice hot shower before eating left overs and catching up with Daffy on what the results were, as i had no idea of the distance i had sailed. After checking four GPS' the conclusion was that i had collected 3 PBs! I was shocked! 

I was aiming for one PB - but to get 3 is insane! The final total distance was 830 km. Absolutely stoked! Bedtime. 

16 Feb 2022 

breakfast in the morning. Daffy announces that he made a mistake last night with the data. He forgot to turn off the filter for zero speed - so turns out my total distance was 848 km! Now i'm really shocked!  

Still got all the bouys to pick up tomorrow.  But i might be off the windsufer for a while. But man it was great fun.  

SL78 Fangy 28 KA Race 7.7

SL54 Atomic weed weapon 24 Koncept 6.6

SL52 Atomic weed 20 Koncept 5.7 

Big thanks to Carbon Art, KA Sails, and Martin Love for their wonderful boards, sails and fins. I couldn't do any of this without their great commitment to the sport. 

To all my friends, family in and out of the windsurfing family, thanks for all your love and support during this crazy adventure. I'm done.