After belting the crap out of myself on the river with a 4.7 (some has 5's up) for about an hour. Was satisfying to see Snides comments on Challenge site about the lumps and bumps in river being bloody painful this afternoon, it wasn't just me then
Spoke too a few when I came in majority struggled with the conditions. Most of us had to hold gear down on ground until breeze dropped enough to pick it up and pack
If nothing else, we all got a bloody good work out.
Mineral

Yep, got my freckle handed to me on a plate.

Ribs are still sore. Apart from a harness line no other damage

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Originally posted by Bender

Well down in Bunvagas the water was just looking too evil with waist high chop and close to 40knts whipping up huge plumes of water.

I chickened out!!

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Mandurah was definitely sailable, I used a rockered wave/slalom board, which meant it made it sailable, but board ploughed a bit, limiting it's top end

Elmo.."Apart from a harness line no other damage"

Yeah right... you just wait till you load that boom next time.. :-))

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Originally posted by yoyo

Elmo.."Apart from a harness line no other damage"

Yeah right... you just wait till you load that boom next time.. :-))

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Sor Ted,

It was replaced under warrantee this Afternoon.

Thank you Mr Reg



Snides

I don't think Mandurah was to soft yesterday, may have been a touch flatter than Ye Olde Swanny.

We could see the gusts coming by the clouds of watter being whipped up of the flat water, pretty amazing to see but painfull to be in front of.

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Originally posted by snides8

only kiddin Elmo just wondering if i was going to get a bite
your right though...when it blows that hard for a long time everywhere is choppy as.. plus in respect to mandurah i am thinking a lot of chop plus a bit of weed makes it even more interesting

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That was the thing, It wasn't really all that choppy, admittedly we weren't going out that far. The water was waist deep where we finished up.

What was amazing was the way the wind was sucking spray of the relatively flat water instead of wave tops, the only way I can describe it was like seeing dust in the bush, we could see the strong gusts coming at us from 500m away.

All that masses of weed was starting to break up, which left floating clumps of it, bit nerve wracking but after a while you sussed out where they were, it also helped seeing the seagulls standing on them.