decrepit forum posts in last 60 days

In theory a gap between sail and board, decreases sail efficiency. how much practical effect that has is anybody's guess.

Saturday looks a little light, SE is a good direction for Coodanup, fairly on shore long runs in the flat, There's not much weed at the moment, so a standard weedy is probably OK, depending on water depth. If the wind was strongenough for good speed runs, Liptons would be the fastest place, Can be a nice long run out to Ward pt, where there is more flat water, but somewhere on the way you'll run into dirty wind off Pt Grey.
Sunday looks too light for a slapper.
Monday, WNW is probably only good for Yunderup or Austalind. I haven't sailed Yunderup for ages, it's very isolated, and you don't want to be there by your self if something goes wrong. You always get sucked in to going a little further, and find your self about 8km from base.
The guys were at Australind the other day. What should have been perfect conditions turned out to be too choppy, I've no idea why.
Flex has posted a vid of it, in the Bruce MKee thread.

IanR said..
there is a percentage of Neanderthal DNA in all of us. To varying degrees
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genetics

As far as I know, this is incorrect, Neanderthals where only in Europe/Asia, There's no Neanderthal gene in Africans

yes it's so terrible that's why we have visitors from all over coming to sample our wind and waves.

I'm not too far out, here's my sail.
Green arrows mark starts and finish of the tear.
Sorry, it's very hard to photograph, this is as good as I can do.
Tear starts at the leading edge on the main downhaul stress line is and stops at the 2nd downhaul reinforcing, that doesn't do very much at all.
So it's not a big tear, but it's hard to get at, and VERY important, The whole sail depends on this being solid, It's under a lot of load, more than I can pull by hand. I need a winch to fully downhaul this sail.

Just out of interest, here's a 15year old boom of mine.
I'm really good at braking booms!

forget how many times this has been repaired.
1st off, I broke one arm beyond repair, managed to buy a new one, (that's in red.
2nd broke the head, bought another one
3rd snapped that within a few months.
4th modified the arms to fit a scavenged head
5th repaired tail piece
Can't see it here but the adjustment holes in the tail piece are elongating, and the boom is slipping.
This is the time to replace, I've tried repairing slipping booms, works for a while, but always wears out.
The worn out tape on the white arm was an experiment in converting from round to oval arms, for me that didn't make any difference.