Only packed my car today with my light wind gear,a 7.7m code-red and 110 litre board,thinking seabreeze would be light,instead it was strong around 15-23 knots.
Rigged it flat and twisty but still shocking to sail. Mega,mega slow and heavy to gybe.
Packed it in after half an hour,this is not windsurfing to me.
Could have been fully powered up on my 5.2m and small board or a little overpowered on my 6.3m/110 combo,but this is a mistake i'm going to learn from!
Yes you only make that mistake once. Remember that a forecast is only a forecast. Meteorology is fuzzy physics with lots of variables. They normally get it pretty right, but there is no guarantee.
I hit the beach with a couple of boards and the SUP each time. It's a bit to pack but gets you on the water each time.
It's a pain when you don't get the selection right..
I went out yesterday in 15- 25kts and spent most of the day changing fins , sails , boards..I could hang on and survive but I don't enjoy being overpowered and getting bashed around in chop coming from all directions..
I started with the 4.8 which was scary over the other side so downhauled the crap out of it + smaller fin ..still too much.. came in put the 4.2m on and the wind died a bit..I was going to use the smaller board 78ltres but looked like it was dying so out on the 95..couldnt even plane..4.8m back on and bigger fin and back to over the top ..grr
Worst bit was everyone else was out having a ball..[}:)]
Oh well at least Ill be getting good at rig changes.next time I'll downhaul the crap out of the 4.8m ( its a sailworks hucker ) and try the smaller board before I go down sail wise. Only problem is the little board is so fast it scares the hell out of me when I use it when I'm overpowered.
Yesterday the top of the sail was crackling flapping around in the wind so I'm not sure if I downhauled it too much? Never put that much on it before. It felt very flat..
Upside was my harness modification worked..
( will post pics) + I can now uphaul my 95 ltres in chop! 
That should open up a new world although I don't know how I'd go uphauling big heavy cammed sails on it...
I was out on the swan yesterday on my second biggest kit an did my 5th fastest 1hr. Planing the while time and needed the big board and sail to do so. Loved it out there on that combo. The 8.6 evo3 is fantastic, feels like a 7.8 gybes real nice. the boom length is 20cm shorter than my evo2 9.5!
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I've made the mistake many times of not packing 'everything'! Although, when I only have a short time for a sail, I'll deliberately rig too big to ensure that I get 100% planing time - even if it means I'm overpowered for part of it.
Down haul is good
Next time don't put so much out haul on it.
A lot of people when overpowered rip on way to much out haul destroying the shape of the sail.
This makes you have to pull in the back hand more because they've lost the nice aerofoil shape but because the sails so flat your essentially holding up a barn door as resistance to the wind.
Realistically it wasn't your fault, you were conspired against by the Glitterarty and their NWO feeding you false information about forecasts.
The recent changes to Perth flight paths and heights by CASA as well as airlines using fuels brewed form GM crops spliced with alien camelite DNA most likely contributed to the reasoning that you expected some performance out of a code red.
1. One man's "overpowered" is another man's powered up!
2. It's better to be overpowered than underpowered (at least on slalom gear)
3. Next time, try a smaller fin before you change to a smaller sail. Maybe you weren't "overpowered" after all.
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I thought that would be enough but it wasn't ..I went from a 30cm weedie to a 21cms weedie and still scary..
Nothing worse that having the sail you want back at home.
It's a lesson we all have to learn, several time over maybe!
I have a 100 litre Naish concept and mainly sail with a 4.7, 5.7 and 6.5 which gets me out in anything from15 to 30 knots. I take all 3 sails despite the forecast and if I can't get out with my gear then the meteorologists need a career change
Have all your gear in a trailer, Use to drive me insaine loading and unloading the ute , forgetting things , now its all there ready to go
^^^ Pick the speed freaks!
Gotta love that flatwater blasting feeling where your board is literally lifting off the water & about to foil off the fin...that's when you rake the sail back a bit, sheet in, twist the body toward the front & tense-up, turn slightly downwind & clench the cheeks - 'OVERDRIVE!'
Was hoping to enjoy that feeling last night - 25kts, rigged a 7.2 on a 129lt board (rigged whilst it was 15kts)...unfortunately the ocean had other thoughts with >1m ht close sloppy wind-chop. Was like downhill mogul skiing!
