Afternoon high tide and a good wind forecast looked good for some development time on the GO 151

Yes folks time for some more of that frustration TOW they call learning to plane

The wind seemed strong enough, the 7m sail appropriate put in the bigger 50cm fin that came with the board.

Spent the next hour phusting and schlogging - occasionally getting a little tease at the possibility of planing. Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a parallel universe where I took the blue pill and everybody else took the orange one ;-(

In hindsight probably needed a bigger sail - occasional whitecaps on the water. Wind gusts showed promise with odd purposefull acceleration bearing off before I ran out of downwind.

Had enough of the required 'development' time and used the last of the daylight to take the longboard out. What a difference - same sail - no changes - I'm off and accelerating WaHoo :-). :-)

Able to get on the plane and head away from the shore. Felt good power from the sail. Able to waterstart.

Sure looking forward to finding out what I'm not doing correctly with the shortboards. Maybe it's not in my mid 50s genetics - I should be following windsurfing history and try to master a short board from the 80s??

Cheers Jeff - doing his time - one frustrating run after another!!