Sunny, windy and WARM ! Can't be the PiT !!??

But it was, and a fun day was had by all who came out to play.

Seems I was dragging the chain a bit from the start yesterday, a bit of a late arrival saw me roll up mid session to howling wind and the talk was very much of overpowered. Still struggling after a 4 month layoff with shoulder injury (current race fuel cortizone + Naprosyn - holding down the liftoff gusts is quite a struggle and no, I can't put on my wetsuit by myself, nor waterstart real good, but can sheet in - sort of !) it looked like 5.1 was the best bet, but as I hit the water the wind decided it was siesta time and I spent the best of my session hunting decent gusts/angle. Hi wind 5.6m would have been dream.

Took one serious hit mid run later in the session, not a wipeout PB but close (39.8 was the last number on the dial) - not ideal physiotherapy.

Stayed late hoping for some pickup , but wind swung to Port tack and the chop got quite rough so I rushed to change to a symetrical fin, only to have the wind dropped down around 15-20 (as Mat told me, looking on from the beach as I struggled to even waterstart) . So I called it a day. As I rolled up the sail, the wind was back on. It happens.

Doppler Speeds / GPS-Results 5.19.
(5 x 10 ave using trackpoints 41.9)