at last good dw conditions on the goldie. the whole week looks good till saturday.
i've done 2 on saturday,one sunday. a short blast from bilinga today- this one hurt, trained this morning and i had to cut a lot of it because of the bilinga start. didn't have a lot of time
tomorrow a few of us are up for a midday run- should be a ripper.
hoping to get a run on thrusday on the newie 14' er
sunday looks like a good day to hold the couch down in front of the telly
i guess the difference to melbourne is we have swell, so med winds is enough, but we wont say no
cheers
Hi Lacey
I went for one today around 1:00pm from Bilinga SLSC to Nth Burleigh rocks
= 11km I was on the 17'6'' Bullet haven't paddled this board since last years Molokai Race I gave Simon from Dolphin a 20 minute head start as he was on a Deep 12'6''. There was a lot of East in the swell though spew but got some fun 50 metre runners. When I hit Currumbin beach I could see the Windsurfers and this lone SUP paddler about 1.5k ahead I'm thinking thats got to be Simon so I'm trying to mow Simon down I caught him around Burleigh Heads and it wasn't Simon it was Mike Manning I haven't seen Mike for Bulk so I stopped. We had a bit of a chat and said I was on my way to Miami. I seen Mike pull into Nth Burleigh 
Mike I would have gave you a lift back to your car plus it would have been good to have a chat. The paddle took me 59 minutes took Simon 70 minutes thats bulk fast for a 12'6''.
Simon is making the Namotu Island Fiji 12'6'' for me stoked
plus I've just got home from Woody's factory Woody just shaped me a 8'4'' Double Flyer Swallow Tail for Namotu Lefts stoked
DW
Mike I would have gave you a lift back to your car plus it would have been good to have a chat. The paddle took me 59 minutes took Simon 70 minutes thats bulk fast for a 12'6''.
, if i had the time i would have done snapper shark nets again
Dale, Lacey and I are doing a quick Currumbin SLC to Burleigh. Its nearly 30 knots at the seaway so it should be good. Meeting at 10.30 at Burleigh...
I guess that's why I like a rudder system so much - the conditions don't have to be perfect downwind to still have a good run. Iron Phil and I were having a blast on that run yesterday. There were some nice ones to be had.
Real Good today. Went with Jacko from Snapper to the Alley. Did a 5 min 30 kilometer near Tugun which is about as fast as I've gone around here. Jacko would've been doing under 5 mins per kilometer I reckon if he wasn't waiting for me.
ouch, that was really hard on the 15'3 that,s pretty skinny with chines. hadn't fallen off all week, but i made up for it today. i've never been so farrrrrrrr back on this board and it just gets narrower and tippier, but got some blinding runs and links.
however, i fought the board and the board won.
now here's the wacko laceys bit. i keep dreaming of double ama's- small, just touching the water and the fronts turned up and i would have to retro fit steering on the board.
on a day like today the only thing holding back is i'm trying to hang on, if i had the narrower board stablized i could really give it some stick the whole time.
keep in mind this board is not designed for these conditions
the boards proving hard to sell so maybe
the baggings will come i'm sure
cheers
Yes, today was another really good run. It's 4 hits since Saturday for me now in varying conditions. I must say that my DC14 x 28 wide felt really good in all 4 runs. I am pretty happy with this board and absolutely love a rudder system. There were 4 boards out today ranging from 12'6" to 15'3. The 14' seems like a good option for our waters on the GC.
During today's paddle it felt like the run from Snapper to Currumbin with SE wind and swell was not ideal. I did a little investigating and found that the perfect line would have been Snapper to Burleigh.
Here is what I came up with in Google Earth - this run is almost exactly 315 degrees (12km), which is perfect for SE conditions. Snapper to Currumbin is 307 degrees (7.5km), which is nearly 10 degrees off line. I was the only one with a rudder system and everyone else ended up tracking too far wide of the Alley. Next time its Snapper to Burleigh in a SE.
By the way, Currumbin to Burleigh is 331 degrees and around 5km - if you are interested. I estimate that a rudder system gives you around 20 degrees to play with either side of your desired course (295-335 degrees in a SE)
