How's everyone's crystal ball looking for tomorrow morning?

Do you reckon we should postpone it till Wednesday and be sure of that big southerly coming through?

Can only get one morning off this week...

increasing rain again tom doesnt look good.
If its not blowing by 6.30am im going to work hoping to catch an arvo session at manly.

I was thinking of hitting the lake on Saturday, get some distance in.

Nebs, count me in, but you'll have to stop talking about those finned things otherwise I wont get in the water.

i love how VP is shark central. if only we knew we were in the middle of a feeding event.



fitz... the lake it is. i'll send you mail closer to the day.

i think pete will be joining us too! so we can swap boards, sails and everything else.

just got 50 knts gust at redcliffe, I might lose me shed !!!

Its blowing its ass off here at the moment, the whole house is swaying.
4.8 is my smallest sail. Have fun guys, see you at the lake sat Gesty.

Cheeky sail before work... overpowered on a 5.0... first sail in a month... suspected cracked rib... HELL YEAH!!!

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Originally posted by nebbian

Cheeky sail before work... overpowered on a 5.0... first sail in a month... suspected cracked rib... HELL YEAH!!!

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That doesn't sound good mate.
I was wondering what happened to ya.
I was keeping an eye on ya, thought you were waiting for that massive gust to subside.
there were some good gust coming though prob 35knots at times but then nothing.
I ended up with a display max of 39.55, I wont know my peak until I get home tonight.
I don't think my av was that great had to bear off into the chop nasty stuff it was.
Great to see some keen guys Nebs and Hagger out before 7.00am this morning.
Back at work by 10am just in time for my meeting.
ta Vando

Epic day for the wrong reasons Unrolled my 5 metre that I had'nt used since xmass when I had a huge stack and found the top batten broken. Hmmmm must inspect gear more carefully. Oh well had to use it anyway. Got a bit close to the bank looking for some flat water to bear away on. Found a sand bank at over 30 knts. I reckon I had the longest catapult ever and should be in the guiness book of records. I remember thinkin - I'm glad I wore my helmet !!! After the slam I could not move my left leg and there was a huge lump on the back of my calf muscle. Thought my leg was broke. After a few minutes feeling returned and the lump went so must have been a muscle spasm. My loft boom looks like an S bend, so time for a new one. The broken batten wore a hole in the batten pocket, so now need a sail repair.

Vando hooked across the corner of the bank and got some good peak speeds going broad, but the chop looked pretty scary. Thought about following him but not quite ready for that yet.

Anyways did a 32 knt max which I think is my best in QLD so well worth the effort.

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Originally posted by Haggar

Epic day for the wrong reasons Unrolled my 5 metre that I had'nt used since xmass when I had a huge stack and found the top batten broken. Hmmmm must inspect gear more carefully. Oh well had to use it anyway. Got a bit close to the bank looking for some flat water to bear away on. Found a sand bank at over 30 knts. I reckon I had the longest catapult ever and should be in the guiness book of records. I remember thinkin - I'm glad I wore my helmet !!! After the slam I could not move my left leg and there was a huge lump on the back of my calf muscle. Thought my leg was broke. After a few minutes feeling returned and the lump went so must have been a muscle spasm. My loft boom looks like an S bend, so time for a new one. The broken batten wore a hole in the batten pocket, so now need a sail repair.

Vando hooked across the corner of the bank and got some good peak speeds going broad, but the chop looked pretty scary. Thought about following him but not quite ready for that yet.

Anyways did a 32 knt max which I think is my best in QLD so well worth the effort.

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Mate sounds like it was a survival season.

Check your GPS logs you may be able to calculate how far you have been catapulted.
My record stands at 20m.

I know Fitz went to GB so fingers crossed for the team as well.
Now if we can just have these conditions every weekend we'd get used to them

bugger,

just read back through the posts. hope you guys shaped up ok. not good to see an injury list and broken gear.

hope all is well.

or hold him down and tickle his elmo.... oops i mean tickle him elmo!!

well done on the pb's haggar. you got us into 6th place.

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Originally posted by Haggar

If Nebs has a cracked rib we need to tell him lots of jokes in about a week

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Ha ha false alarm Haggar, only badly bruised I think... well at least I could sleep last night, which wasn't the case last time I cracked some ribs! Still hurts whenever I breathe deeply so something's not quite right... won't stop me this Saturday though, I've got my GPS back as well [}:)] just hope this wind hangs around until then!

Gestalt -- spoken like a man who was there Couldn't sheet in, couldn't get the harness lines right, could hardly keep the board on the water... yep that sounds about right!