Will you blokes just go sailing! Please!

Obviously no ones sailing much at the moment!

I'd go wavesailing if there was anything worth chasing. I'd go freestyling if I didnt continually damage my body. Id go bump and jump but it gets a bit boring if its not over 30knots and waist high chop. I'd go GPS sailing but theres no point because it just creates an argument about why I'm not wavesailing or freestyling or just bumping around.

For Sale, lots of windsurfing gear!
Wanted Kite gear!

I consider myself a wavesailor and nearly gave up windsurfing years ago because I found it extremely boring sailing backwards and forwards on flat water doing loops when there was no waves around. This has happened to many sailors in the past that get wrapped up in wavesailing only to realise that its so fickle in SE Tas they are wasting their time and money. Freestyle helped to renew a bit of interest in the sport for myself, but as with everything I got carried away and tore and fractured my ankle.
If it wasnt for GPS sailing I probably would have lost interest in the sport as I couldnt freestyle or wavesail properly with a repairing body. I still love nothing more than charging overhead waves and trying to smash the crap out of them, but living in SE Tas means that this doesnt happen all that much and its hard to take the time and money to travel.
I'm a competitive person by nature and like to push myself beyond the limit whenever I go out. GPS sailing has given me that option during times that I had just about turned my back on sailing unless it was in the waves.
Which now equates to the fact that I'm spending more time on the water than ever before and I'm satisfying my competitive nature by competing against over 600 others and myself everytime I go out.
The other thing is that by human nature we want to be part of a community and GPS sailing in Tas has a big community of like minded competitive people all keen to support each other and beat the crap out of each other at the same time
Unfortunately the wavesailing community in Tas has continued to diminish over the years and now it's down to about 2 people willing to travel and seek good conditions. This lack of wavesailing community lowers the competitive nature of the group and becomes more about 'soul' sailing and the individual 'rush' than the competitive push.

John Pott was right, god dam him. I'm over competitive.

And I need to go sailing, cant wait till October when Goats is back on and I can smack some lips with Houston and Damo. and the weather warms up so I can get out there with Dave and clock up 600km in a nice warm constant breeze, or maybe get my first Flaka on the Lagoon with Barry freestyle. But bugga me I wont be sailing backwards and forwards on flat water unless I've got my GPS on.

Just thought I'd dribble a bit.........more!

Like Buzzy and Dave and most other gps team sailors; I have been sailing forever. Still young at heart, last seasion was the best ever that I can remember. Mates having a healthy comp against each other.

Next Seasion I'm taking it up a another level GO PRO HERO has arrived with my new Gath today so everyone can enjoy watching us all having a blast

GPS, GO PRO HERO its all good. lets stay positive and showcase our sport Windsurfing in Tasmania, the best place in the world to live and love windsurfing

The camera is a Go Pro HD hero listed for $399 on the seabreeze site.

That is a good deal

Be good to have Northern Tassie and Southern Tassie posting on you tube on the same day.

Go for it Izaak start saving for spring

Now I can have GPS and GO Pro tech issues

Hey iceman, (im jason, i had a sail with you at st helens a coupla months ago) im in for some jaunts in the waves off scamander / st helens / ansons when the breeze comes back and the water warms up. plenty of good spots on the east coast especially with a 4x4. When i work out how send you an email from this site, i will (on my 'l's still) cheers dude
and hi to every one else

Thanks champ; will see you on the water when it gets warmer

Hi VZ, I was wondering what happened to you. Haven't had much chance to get out recently. Ant and Nick came over to our part of the world and reckoned that we had some of the best surfing beaches in Tassie. Maybe if we get together and try some out this Summer we can get some pictures and prove it. Looking forward to catching up this season. I've even picked up a new surfing board and keen to try it.

Please please please be wind soon, everyone on here is going craaaaazzzzzyyyy

Is that the 45? few new c3's

The most delusional wavesailors

The following can indicate a delusion:

1.The patient expresses an idea or belief with unusual persistence or force.
2.That idea appears to exert an undue influence on the patient's life, and the way of life is often altered to an inexplicable extent.
3.Despite his/her profound conviction, there is often a quality of secretiveness or suspicion when the patient is questioned about it.
4.The individual tends to be humorless and oversensitive, especially about the belief.
5.There is a quality of centrality: no matter how unlikely it is that these strange things are happening to him, the patient accepts them relatively unquestioningly.
6.An attempt to contradict the belief is likely to arouse an inappropriately strong emotional reaction, often with irritability and hostility.
7.The belief is, at the least, unlikely, and out of keeping with the patient's social, cultural and religious background.
8.The patient is emotionally over-invested in the idea and it overwhelms other elements of their psyche.
9.The delusion, if acted out, often leads to behaviors which are abnormal and/or out of character, although perhaps understandable in the light of the delusional beliefs.
10.Individuals who know the patient observe that the belief and behavior are uncharacteristic and alien.

The following features are found

1.It is a primary disorder.
2.It is a stable disorder characterized by the presence of delusions to which the patient clings with extraordinary tenacity.
3.The illness is chronic and frequently lifelong.
4.The delusions are logically constructed and internally consistent.
5.The delusions do not interfere with general logical reasoning (although within the delusional system the logic is perverted) and there is usually no general disturbance of behavior. If disturbed behavior does occur, it is directly related to the delusional beliefs.
6.The individual experiences a heightened sense of self-reference. Events which, to others, are nonsignificant are of enormous significance to him or her, and the atmosphere surrounding the delusions is highly charged.


Hmmm! I think maybe were all delusional

There had better be some wind, I'm leaving home early tomorrow and heading straight for Dorans. I've got all day Friday and Saturday to find some wind down there. Just in case there's no wind can someone tell me where " Schoolyards " is on South Arm so I can go and check it out so I can kite there the next time I'm down. ( Cue the voodoo dolls and the needles )

Dat funny. Hey I'm still a wavesailor, I just got lazy as in driving all the way to Marrawah in a day for a day and back in a day...and so are the days of our lives I like havin a go at everything.