hee hee

yes..

Terrigal harbour...

on a one design...virtually no wind and using a small sail...went out the back of the breaks...no worries...coming back had to pump like hell not to end up on the rocks buteveryhting was cool on my side..

but some guy had to come up and say..."was gonna tell you when you rigged up that there wasnt enough wind...but by jingo young Skywalker you were able to get back...I didnt think you would when you left"

sure I would have looked underpowered to him..but I always sail one sail too small due to my health limitations,..I am light and capable,I was on a big floaty one design..easy,...I knew then what I was doing..but to everyone else I looked hopelessly underpowered.

What sh!ts me is when you have 3 or 4 very capable wavesailors out but it is really light so they are dogging (or 'ogging' as Relli would say) and some slalom sailor is planing past them back n forth.
Bystanders: "ooooh he's sooo goooood wow he's so fast".
If they ask how you went and you say 'not enough wind' they think you are a useless noob

Q: how do you know if you are a pirate?

A: you just aarrgghhhh

(works better said out loud )

lalalamort said...

People always seem to assume you dont know how to sail if you try and go out in light winds

I get that a lot as I practice in all winds.

I do all sort of freestyle in 20-25 knots on a 105l board (not always good, I grant you that), yet the next day I go out on an old board in 10 knots and people that saw me both days think I'm a beginner. Those are sailors too.

At Balmoral once I was sailing with the rig upside down for the fun of it, and some sailor comes to me and tells me I had the sail the wrong way around.

Ouf... serenity now !

There's something about Balmoral beach... I sailed there once earlier this year only to find that I planed all the way into shore into a wind shadow behind the rocks and then didn't have any wind to waterstart back and get into the channel! Doh! It happened at about 6.30pm on a nice evening with loads of people sitting on the beach looking at what would only seem like a complete novice trying to sail. I swam it back in the end as my board is of the sinker type........ Never sailed there since!

Mark _australia said...

What sh!ts me is when you have 3 or 4 very capable wavesailors out but it is really light so they are dogging (or 'ogging' as Relli would say) and some slalom sailor is planing past them back n forth.
Bystanders: "ooooh he's sooo goooood wow he's so fast".
If they ask how you went and you say 'not enough wind' they think you are a useless noob

Maybe they know something you dont !

After all isnt part of the skill judging wind speed / sail size.

But seriously only just made it back into the bay I was sailing from on Monday - wind just dropped that little bit too much. But sailing with the water over your ankles is also a skill.

Tim the tool man rules

Rig big

lalalamort said...

ARGGH, me hearties

pirate walks into pub.





ARGHHHHHHH , get out of the way ya silly pub