Date: 15/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 21.5 knots
Conditions: Chilly to cold
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots): Tinaroo Dam
Equipment: Mistral Screamer 105l 6.0 Gun Tempo
Details about Self: Lyn Halloran ..
Comments: Not as silly as some.
Date: 15/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 29.36 knots
Conditions: 25knots average (10 to over 30)
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots): Sandringham, NSW
Equipment: Bic Techno 98l, NP Solo 5.0, Stock fin, 30cm Tuttle box
Details about Self: Buggered, but happy! New PBs, 2sec, 10x2, Alpha 500, NM
Comments: Great spot, never sailed there before. Great winter storm, 14degrees, raining, windy. Beautiful day in Sydney!
Date: 15/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 23.2
Conditions: Cold and wet (thats the air), water was even colder. Gusty squally southerly
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots): Narrabeen Lake
Equipment: Tabou 140
Neil Pryde 6.6 RX2
Tabou 48 Freeride fin.
Details about Self: 37 year old intermediate
Comments: Very cold but I'd rather have this than the doldrums that have affected Sydney for the last few months. Had to come back in because of the cold and fading light. It was warmer than yesterday, probably around 15 or 16 degrees.
Date:13/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed:43.5
Conditions:Rainy,sunny,haily,cloudy,windy with the odd rainbow.
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):Sandy Point
Equipment: CarbonArt SP40,Pryde RSRacing 5.8,KA 20 assy fin.
Details about Self:I've got a tooth ache.
Comments:You can never have too many fins.
Date: Sun 15th June 2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 26.51
Conditions: Light, very light, dead calm, strong, fkn strong, nuclear, all in the same day.
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots): Peel estuary in multiple places
Equipment: 6.8 Loft Blade (underpowered), 5.0 Ezzy (way overpowered), 85 litre Strapper, Elmo special weedy, JP 31cm weedy.
Details about Self: Tired, multiple cuts on right hand from when the sail mashed my hand into the board.
Comments: If you sailed in WA this morning you might be forgiven for being too ashamed to post in a "storm challenge" thread, but if you sailed in the afternoon then you're quite justified in doing so!http://gpsteamchallenge.com.au/showsession.php?date=2008-06-15&team=2
Date: 15 June 2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 29.0kts
Conditions: 10-25kts SW. 30cm chop.
Where you sailed: St Georges Yacht Club, Botany Bay NSW
Equipment: JP Slalom III 89, KA Koncept 5.8, Tectonics Falcon 30cm followed by JP RWW 76, NP Combat 4.7
Details about Self: 32 and need more practice.
Comments: Windy today. Had a good sail on the slalom board then the wave board. Lots of ramps for jumps.
Date: 13-06-2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 45.6 knots
Conditions: ~10'C, Squalls, Rain, Hail, Sand, Sun, Rainbows
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):Sandy Point
Equipment: CA44, Kassy21, 5.8Kcpt
Details about Self: Unfit, overweight, taking it easy in the waist harness.
Comments: My fastest run of the day felt the slowest, it was in the bigger 35' squall with rain, hail & sand belting me hard in the right eye. I had to close it and couldn't see much further than 40-50ft with left eye, it felt too sketchy with my vision/balance impaired so sheeted out a little and went survival mode, all was feeling neutral and slow. Pulled up and and had a 45.6pk and 44.4 10sec Freaky!!! Adrian who went moments earlier in the squall noted a similiar experience, felt slow yet fast. We were literally sucked along without having to fight or lean back into it.
Looking at the track log I was still accelerating when I went to slow down thinking that it was a poor run DopMax45.9, arrghh!
Date: 14 June 2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 28.2kts
Conditions: 10-25kts SSW. Very gusty and full of holes. 30cm chop. . (thanks katapult)
Where you sailed: St Georges Yacht Club, Botany Bay NSW
Equipment: Starboard Hypersonic 105, Sailworks NX 6.6, Drake Race 32cm
Details about self: Sore neck, need a new fin....
Comments: First time at st george yacht club, first of many.. Guys let me know when your heading there on the weekends
yeah its a good spot, probably the best i've been to in ssw, kyeemagh is a bit too lumpy, sand point pittwater can be quite a handful.
Looking forward to heading back there. do you launch from the sailing club or some where else? I saw a couple of guys south of the club, was that you?
Date: 15/06/2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 36.17
Conditions: Brown trousers
Where you sailed:Alphaland
Equipment: JP Slalom II 84L, NP RS4 6.2m, Ken-Elmo 42º 24cm
Details about Self: To old, to fat, to slow, to much of a big nancy boy girls blouse today to go faster
Comments: Defeated before I went out, wrong mind set
Date: 15/06/2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 34.978
Conditions: Brown trousers
Where you sailed:hardies run
Equipment: Isonic86,x-15 5.2m,25cm bennetic 45deg weed
Details about Self: No quick enough to match it with the big boys
Comments: should have used a bigger fin and due to the chop i could not keep the fin in the water.
Date:15 June 08
GPS Display Maximum Speed:30.01
Conditions:20-25knots (and the sun had come out!)
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):Melville
Equipment:iSonic50, Rock 4.2, F1 26cm
Details about Self: Cold. My feet are slowly starting to get feeling back!
Comments:May seem an odd sail to put on a speed board, but it worked OK. And when you see Stribo powered up on a 5m2 you know to rig small!
Date: 15-06-08
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 27.36
Conditions: very choppy crap wind
Where you sailed : Cam's front yard
Equipment: The mighty Gladiator
Details about Self: Day older than yesterday
Comments: Mainly a get together with some mates, didn't sail long
Date:15/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed:32.71
Conditions:Everything 0-30knots N to SW
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):Melville and Pt W
Equipment:5.0m NP combat, JPFSW 91, FO26cm weedster.
Details about Self: Determined
Comments:Hoped for better speed but I guess it shows Cammed sails are faster. Just didnt have one small enough. Not bad for all wave gear I guess.
Date:15/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed: dont know - cant read it without glasses
Conditions: all sorts - windy and wet
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):Melville
Equipment:5.8m NP search, 5m Ezzy wave, 79l starboard kombat.
Details about Self: got out finally
Date; 15/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed; 37.95
Conditions; Water was brown, ducks were tacking windward
Where; Hardies
Equipment; Tabou Manta 54, 5.6TR4 , starboard 28 freeride fin
About Self; 120kgs 190cm
Comments; Need faster fin
Date: 17/6/08
GPS Display Maximum Speed:34.41
Conditions:gusty 15-25kn some to 30
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):hardies
Equipment: ca sp 44,koncept 5.0,22 weed eater custom,9kg lead
Details about Self: 43yrs 72kgs,
Comments:
its been a long time betweeh drinks and real 20 to25knot conditions
Date: 15 June 2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 22.6kts
Conditions: 30-40Knt NW swinging to W. Gusty. Good ramps.
Where you sailed: Woodies
Equipment: JP Pro Wave 79, 4.5 Zone, 23 Choco weedie
Details about self: Stoked with my new Pro Wave
Comments: Good B&J session at Woodies. A bit overpowered at times, but great to be out on the water
Date: 2008-06-13
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 40.8
Conditions: 20-30kn, ice
Where you sailed: The PiT
Equipment: F2 missile 2007, KA Koncept 2008 5.0, KA Lockwood/McDougall 22cm 2008
Details about Self: full of it...
Comments: During one particular run, it hailed so hard that I could no longer see water due to the ice on the water-surface... I'm pretty sure that that run definitely counts towards the "storm challenge"!
Just use the following format:
Date: 13 June
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 36.1
Conditions: NE 30 knts.
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots): Sprecks ( Maui ) hee hee.
Equipment: JP Slalom III 69, NP RS Slalom 5.4, Tectonics 30 F-1.
Details about Self: Bossman
Comments: Nice and warm.Javascript:insertsmilie('')
Date. 21.6.08
GPS Max speed. 22.437
Conditions. Very light westerly wind 14kts max
Place I sailed. Wellington point
Equipment. CA SL70
7.6 Stealth
tech 40cm
Details about myself. Desperate sailer
Date:21-06-2008
GPS Display Maximum Speed:24.95
Conditions:Howling 5-15k westerly, blistering sunshine, flat warm water.
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots):Manly Qld, but keep it quiet.
Equipment: 6.6Kcept ,Warp 76, 43cm unknown.
Details about Self: Took up this sport 4 years ago therefore still a lot of years left as Iam only a 60Y.O. DUDE.
Comments:Had trouble with the dam fin, then realised I did not have my MAUI FIN with me. Cant find it, time I WON one.
Date: 21-06-08
GPS Display Maximum Speed: 31.905 knots
Conditions: Cold Sou'wester
Where you sailed (Code ok for secret spots): Mortimer Bay South of Hobart
Equipment: iSonic 101 and mostly a 5.6 SSR
Details about Self: Very unfit ...
Comments: Broke boom, but managed to make my way home, re-rig and keep sailing