Just sail as much as you can when it's windy; you never know when the next long windless spell is coming!

All I do these days is sail (yep I'm on holiday), eat, smoke a lil' reefer and sleep. Nature provides rest days (no wind), cruisy 7m days (when you can almost close your eyes and go to sleep while planing) and plenty of overpowered 5m days to make me glad of the former.

Life is good!


PS- SEND MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!

never long enough

Some sessions to long. I can generally suss these sessions out by the text message on my phone "are you dead? it's after dark"

Don't quite know how to answer that

NICE! Yup just started working full time as well so I can afford to go to the beach every windy day !!! May the seabreezes last!

I think the right answer is,....
"Too much windsurfing is barely just enough!"

Hey Wet Willy
Where are you on holidays? Vietnam?
Was thinking of trying it out one day.
Could you give me the lowdown on the place?
Cheers

We had a front come through one night (25-35knots). I strapped a dolphin torch to my head and went out. Sailed all night, all the next day and until 1am the next night. Worked out to be 28hours straight with no food or water. Luckily the waves were only mast and half otherwise it would have tired me out sooner.

One Monday morning I was sailing when the Northernly wind picked up. I was sailing on big gear so I was forced to head higher into wind to spill power. By that evening I was approaching the Solomon Islands. Unfortunally as I approached the Solomon Islands the wind strength dropped off and I was forced to bear away. I sailed through the night and by morning I could see Samoa on the horizon. But wouldn't you know it, as I got closer to Samoa the wind turned more Easterly and I was forced to jibe. Having been on a port tack for 24 hours it was a relief to have the wind coming over my right shoulder, as least now I had right of way! I sailed square to the wind for most of the next day and through the night passing Tonga some time around 4am. I was going to call in for breakfast but those Tongans are late risers and a pre-breakfast Wave sailing session in New Zealand sounded pretty good. I arrived in Taranaki just after dawn and sailed my formula gear on half mast sets all day. That afternoon I was tounging for a beer, realising that New Zealand doesn't have good beer so I loosened of the outhaul to bag out the sail and broad reached all the way home arriving at 3pm Wednesday afternoon, just in time to watch the twenty20 cricket. I was a little bit tired.

Bogey said...

Hey Wet Willy
Where are you on holidays? Vietnam?
Was thinking of trying it out one day.
Could you give me the lowdown on the place?
Cheers

What do you want to know? It's great!! BRING MONEY!!!!!!!!!

My record is 35 days in a row was about six years ago ,my first season in WA
21 days at corro's drove to lano got the latebash and sailed another 14 days .Mind you my hands where 90 percent silvertape and had some hidious ulcers on my feet and shins but hey i learnt to jybe and how to jump
I think it's catching up on me now though. Some how unless it was mast-hi perfection for 35 days in a row i wouldn't punish myself like that again
Having lived in QLD it's hard to break that "it's windy sail till ya drop" attitude.Trouble was it just didn't stop blowing

Mr. No-one said...

14 days straight a few years ago wavesailing at Scarbs after work. Each day I thought what if it's the last day of wind for a while. Had to take a break but it kept on blowing.
If you want marathon sessions then sail with Juice, he's like the energizer bunny.

C'mon Mr no one I think you can outsail me, your a marathon man.
Mr no one is a half bionic machine

Hmmmm, I'm noticing the lack of Victorian posters on this thread!!!


C'mon guys, surely someone had a holiday somewhere windy???


Hang-on......I think I just saw a leaf move on my wind-tree...
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Nup....just a f#$%ing bird!

Juice said...

He's a 6 million dollar machine

How much for his left testie? I need one of those

Greenroom said...

Juice said...

He's a 6 million dollar machine

How much for his left testie? I need one of those

That's what happens when you tuck your nuts in to far (see virtual reality thread)
As for $6mill machine, some of the parts are getting rusty, where do you get your spares from Mike?