I love the Gippsland lakes! so many great sailing spots and plenty of wind. I haven't been there in over 20 years, would love to get back there some day.

Saw you come past as we were approaching Lakes.
We were paddling the same course/race from Paynesville on sup's as part of the Gippsland Lakes Challenger Paddle Marathon.
Great day on the water!

oldie said..

Hi, Twicebitten! Suppose you will look at a big Starboard? What is your present board and fin? I have tried quite a few long funboards, gone to seats around the garden..

Thinking along the Starboard line. The old raceboard is a custom board made by Jim French for Arthur Brett's World Cup campaign way back, it's relatively narrow with V in the back so not real quick to plane and heavily built in Carbon Kevlar composites. It was designed to handle high winds and waves and made strong which makes it a bit heavy, so it was never really succesful.

oldie said..
Hi, Twicebitten! Suppose you will look at a big Starboard? What is your present board and fin? I have tried quite a few long funboards, gone to seats around the garden..

Thinking along the Starboard line. The old raceboard is a custom board made by Jim French for Arthur Brett's World Cup campaign way back, it's relatively narrow with V in the back so not real quick to plane and heavily built in Carbon Kevlar composites. It was designed to handle high winds and waves and made strong which makes it a bit heavy, so it was never really succesful.

Maybe it depends on your definition of success :) Most longboards seem to really suck in high winds. JF seems to have everything right, I would install a WOD centreboard casette in my JF but it doesn't sort of fit with the overall design ..