A black day in my life:

First of all I shouldn't have listened to Jacques theory saying: " If you take a sail too small you will be angry with yourself, but if you take a sail too big you just pull a little bit harder ! " So I took 6.2 sqm as well ..

Wrong choice as it seemed after that, sailing my old sail ( new one had to be replaced ), my old board ( RIP ) and Mal's TM45V7 (Finally starboard tack speed conditions !).

After a couple of good runs display showed nothing ?????  Turned out that the unit was on indoors : SHIT !!
After that I started to push real hard to make up the lost time and was going so fiercely upwind that I hitted some big 2 foot waves, thus giving my board a 1 cm negative rocker as it turned out at home after sailing ( after which I even enlarged it to about 50 cm of negative rocker, beating the darn thing up out of frustration on a lightpost ). That explains my struggle to get the board speed high enough when entering the course through the nasty chop; my starting speed was too low which can also be seen in my slow 500m speed, whereas I sailed much further down the bank then most of the others.

I could not understand why I was not able to get the speeds that some others had, I tried everything, my fin was perfect and the sail/board combo has proven to be fast. I just didn't get it.

At the end when the wind started to die I was still doing frustrated runs when all the others were already walking back. Then I made some serious crashes and I hardly managed to get back ashore with the even more dieing wind. I had a strugle walking back because I first had to go 600 meters upwind to get my stuff and then the 2 km back to the car. While the tide was coming up steadily and the current was very strong I had a very exhausting walk back and was happy to be the last one arriving at the car park.

Reading the data at home it turned out that I was missing a part of the day and unfortunately I forgot my cable for the Gecko (which I had as a backup) in the USA.

So this is my partial NAVI session, a new PR on the average but still with mixed feelings ( and waiting for a new board and sail )

I cannot wait to go back and get even with the devil, who is following me around over the last month.