Date: 15/1/08 Safety Bay

GPS Display Maximum Speed:19.63 knots P.B. first time using a GPS

Conditions: 15 - 18 knots SSW

Equipment: Futura 133lt, loft 02 5.9, choco 40cm weeed

Details about Self: broken down old hack 56 Y.O. almost 2 years experience

Comments: Safety Bay is a fantastic place for windsurfing! first waterstart ever at Safety Bay as well

Date:30/1/08

GPS Maximum Speed: 30.02 knts

Conditions:15-20 knots sea breeze. Lake Macquarie

Equipment: 5.8m KA Koncept, 1995? F2 Sputnik

Comments: A bit more east than nor'east but still good to get over 30.

MavericK040 said...

Date:28 - 01 - 08

GPS Display Maximum Speed: 23.7 kts

Conditions: fairly gusty SE about 20 -25 kts in river mouth at augusta

Equipment: 88 Litre Mistral Electron 5.8 Gaastra grind 26 cm FO free ride fin

Details about Self: 19 years old 72 kgs sailing for one year

Comments:Thought i was going faster but Gps said other wise
not too happy with results but its the first time out with the gps
MM m Must gGo FfFaaaaster!!!

Take it easy on yourself, just sailing for one year that's fabulous!! You just build up slowly to high speeds, can't be done overnight, you have to build up the skill, the reflexes, the muscle-memory etc........

My first attempt

Date: 27/1/08

GPS Display Maximum Speed: 21.9

Conditions: 12-15 knots, Lake George

Equipment: 6 metre sail, speed dunga (fixed but leaked)

Details about Self:

Comments: Distance travelled 21.86 nautical miles
That was about 5 runs to the end of the Lake and back - took 3 and a half hours.

Attempt 2
Date: 31/1/08

GPS Display Maximum Speed: 25.1 knots
Average 24.6 knots

Conditions:Sellicks 31/03:30pm - - - - - SE 50 59 knots27 32 - - -
31/03:00pm - - - - - SE 50 61 27 33 - - -
31/02:30pm - - - - - SE 50 59 27 32 - - -
31/02:00pm - - - - - SE 52 63 28 34
Really strong gusts, a few glassy holes
Very choppy


Equipment: 4.2 Gaastra Manic, Fanatic Cross cx90

Details about Self:
Same size sail as most of the boys

Comments: My second go, I'm starting to like this.

Well Done susie!!!! Join the challenge, and form a new team!!

Susie said...

Date: 1/2/08

GPS Display Maximum Speed: 27.03 knots
average 26.98 knots

Conditions: south easterly, choppy, holes
01/05:30pm - - - - - SSE 41 48 22 26 knots - - -
01/05:00pm - - - - - SSE 39 50 21 27 - - -
01/04:30pm - - - - - SSE 39 50 21 27 - - -
01/04:00pm - - - - - SE 35 46 19 25 - - -
01/03:30pm - - - - - SE 35 44 19 24

Equipment: 5.3 gaastra manic wave
fanatic cross 90 litre

Details about Self: bulking up


Comments: The boys had the same size sail, so I was happy with my time
I was hoping for more easterly, damn, had to work in the morning when it would have been nice and flat.

Impressive susie you'd be one of the top ranked women with those speeds, particularly if you keep improving at the rate you do!!!

Susie said...

Really? Serious? I just gotta figure out how to download to my pc. Do I need an sp card? I tried without one and just bought one but haven't used it yet.
I KNOW I've been faster on the morning easterlies before my gps.

Susie in just 2 goes, you have proved you are bloody fast, and need to be in the challenge, helping to create a standard for women windsurfers in Australia. I'm not into the technical side of things, put up a thread/post in the speed section or ask one on the Onboard speed demons. We'll all help where we can. My job is motivation!! WE WANT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hardie said...

Susie said...

Really? Serious? I just gotta figure out how to download to my pc. Do I need an sp card? I tried without one and just bought one but haven't used it yet.
I KNOW I've been faster on the morning easterlies before my gps.

Susie in just 2 goes, you have proved you are bloody fast, and need to be in the challenge, helping to create a standard for women windsurfers in Australia. I'm not into the technical side of things, put up a thread/post in the speed section or ask one on the Onboard speed demons. We'll all help where we can. My job is motivation!! WE WANT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Susie i'm looking to make a team. JUST BOUGHT MY GPS!!! (however still have to wait for it to arrive in the mail in the next week and a half or so.) Maybe you, dave, kym, my dad, brother and i could make another SA team which could work out well.

I can't wait for it to arrive. Busting to try one. I'm hoping to get it soon so i can try it at the last KA sails summer of speed day round at the mouth not this saturday but the next.

We can only hope
Bubs

Date:15.02.08

GPS Display Maximum Speed:24.8 getting there

Conditions:15 - 18kn

Equipment: 136l np super sport - 6.0m v6

Details about Self: old, but addicted

Comments: found a few holes but board and sail combo kept me going through most. Need instant fitness pills

Date: 16/2/2008

GPS Display Maximum Speed: 23.77

Conditions: Little inconsistent, took wind a long time to come in. All rigged big sails so wasn't that windy.

Equipment: 2004 7.0 Gaastra GTX, 2001 6.5 Neilpryde V8 (which is now destroyed after today and prity much a bin job), 2004 JP Freeride 158 and 2002 Naish Quatro 105.

Details about Self: Just 15 years old, about 65-70kg.

Comments: First time out with GPS, was prity happy with the time because it was not a fast day and no one there, even the fast blokes who have sailed for ages, went realy quick. Defently wasnt the slowest out there so i was happy. Not used to the new sopt, never been there before and was very different. Quite choppy to what i'm used to and directly horizontal to your board so quite difficult conditions to go fast in. Wasn't very much wind either hence me rigging up 6.5 and 7.0 even though i'm prity light.

Anyway good days sailing other than the fact i put a irepairable hole in my V8 and my dad put a HUGE dent in his JP board. Not really fast but happy for a first shot, and also considdering conditions.

Cheers
Bubs

GPS type : Navi GT-11
Average speed : 33.16 knots (34.0 33.7 33.1 32.9 32.1)
Max. GPS (display) : 35.8 knots
Max. 2 sec. (software) : 36.0 knots
100 m run : 34.9 knots
250 m run : 33.5 knots
500 m run : 31.5 knots
Nautical mile : 26.9 knots

Windspeed : 25 knots
Windgusts : 35 knots

the water disappeared at Goolwa today, leaving dry sand banks to sail behind, a bit like the easterly bank at SP. wind was very square, couple of friends out... should have been else where.... it was a great, short session !!

being my first post for the SA Gyby Turkeys .. thought i'd better put in a good Alpha : 23.193 !

Date:2/3/08

GPS Display Maximum Speed:32.6 knots

Conditions:fluky 18-25 knots (Point Walter)

Equipment: 1993 Fanatic Mega Ray (100L), 7.0m Tushingham X15, 34" fin

Details about Self: 44yrs old , 99Kg

I could get into this!! need to look at better fitting , smaller fin. Great having my 12 yr old son join me taking turms with GPS...might need to buy another.

Date: 7-03-08

GPS Display Maximum Speed: 31.31 (PB)

Conditions: Very gusty, beach open water.

Equipment: 100L Gladiator, Loft 5.9 O2, 34cm FI fin.

Details about Self: Old B*stard.

Comments: First sail in weeks, first time with O2 sail and 2nd go with 34cm F1 fin.

Hey Notwal,

I've done 35 knots on my 5m Ezzy wavesail so speed sails aren't essential for going fast...

Rig big, lots of downhaul, bag the sail out. It feels like a big sack of potatoes but when you're going off the wind it's fast

Also put your harness lines back further than you normally have them, you want to sail along with lots of front hand pressure. This helps to prevent spinout at speed, which can be quite frightening...

And join the challenge, you know you want to

Yes I am a steenking dweeby geek but hey I've done 35 knots on my ezzy so ner ner ne ner ner.

Were you really bearing off? Like, not just sticking to the flat water near the bank but sailing stupidly broad?

I downhaul to the max recommended setting (crinkle goes all the way to the end of the swoosh) and put on about 2cm outhaul, your Ezzies might set a bit differently to mine though.
Basically take off outhaul until the sail feels really bad, CE wanders all over the place in gusts, and then you're in the zone. Sounds wrong but it works for me. But this only works when you're really bearing off...