for Boggy lake sailors - the last two sessions i've hit something off the reed bank on the opposite shore. both times fully planing then hear/feel a hard clunk from fin region just as the board stops dead.

last week violently catapulted and chipped the nose of my board. when my head cleared i saw a golf-ball sized white float just under the surface with a rope trailing into the murk. no way you'd see that at speed. i think i was just really unlucky to snag it in a biggish lake. perhaps it's lost because how would the owner find it...GPS?

yesterday same thing happened but somehow the catapult missed the board. i could see nothing afterwards that explained it.

back on shore Andreas had hit something unseen as well - his catapult snapped his boom so it seems i've been getting away lightly.

someone said maybe carp - i have seen plenty of fish recently. i don't know what it was but i have sailed those tacks maybe a thousand times in the past year without incident.

then the minute i buy a new board...