apparently not only are you supposed to insert the fin into the box, you are also meant to then tighten the screws into the fin! This last stage seemed like it would eat up far to much of my sailing time on Saturday, hence long sideways sail back to Manly.

Good news is that the wind gods were very happy with my offering, and afforded me one of the best sails this year!

Unfortunately this is not the first time i've done it, hence have had some practice in the "no fin" technique! apparently your meant to strap your harness to the back strap. Once you get on the plane its pretty hairy.

Dont worry....until you sail into a channel marker, you are not officially recognised as a klutz. "channel marker,... what channel marker?"

Channel Marker, Channel Marker,

What Channel Marker.

OH that one!

The One you have sailed past over 100 times.

Mikey - If you had no fin we could forgive you!

you should change your nickname to PORT.

If you had too much PORT the night before then.....

- Cheers J

Black,

Having had an unfortunate incident where it was Turtle 1: DrJukka0 out near Green Island I understand your dilemma.

Sink the tail and dredge back in - hard work but possible.

Plenty of opportunity for those freestyle moves.

BTW dugongs also hurt

_ J

DAM,

have to agree on the Dugongs sneaking up behind you and doing their 'thing' scared the living daylight out of me in 3 ft of water one day.

As for hitting them - ouch and they are big, 30 knots to 0 hurts (us and probably them as well).

Perhaps we should all chip in a buy Mikey a set of sailing specs for XMAS- might be to our benefit.

I mean, if he can't see a stationary, bright red thing that sticks out of the water 4m - what hope does he have of seeing another sailor.!

Anyway - having taken more than enough piss out of Mikey's poor unfortunate vision incident that has given rise to ample advertising oppotunites (RACQ) -

Best of the season to all.

- Dr J

I knew the channel marker was there somewhere...... Board repaired now.
Yea DAM, danced well but the judges saw it as 5th. No trip to Europe for me this year, unless I give Pierre a visit. Did an interview for Today Tonight which they may put to air before Chrissy....or may not. NOW FOR SOME SERIOUS SAIL TIME!

That's got to hurt Mike, were you doing your speed thing or just B&J. Either way it can't have been good.

Sorry to hear about the 5th, perhaps the judges are as blind as, I don't know, say - someone who runs into stationary channel markers...