Covid vaccine

I owned a Patrik 140 litre hollow board. Used it with a Hyperglide 8m and 50 Z fin.

I would plane before the majority of foilers though they would keep going in the lulls better.

Did i enjoy using it?

No farking way.

Nigh on impossible to turn and harsh when the wind picked up in the chop.

Sold it and yet to regret it.

Bigger and heavier components with a larger sail also.

6.3 is as big as I'm going to go these days.

Yes it limits my planing threshold to about 13 knots compared to only 10 knots with the big gear but it's way more fun when on the plane.

In any case at 58 i need my rest days bad as in real farking bad.

Yesterday on the water at around 3-30pm and when i checked the time in my car after getting my wetsuit off it was 7.01pm.

Half an hour of rest talking to slowboat about CT and the rest sailing in 20 to 30 knots on the river.

Today my body is well farked but i did enjoy / love the 3 hours.

Had a great day trying and failing to recover from the ordeal of sailing in a strong breeze on Thursday.

Strong easterly in Perth today but i expect few takers.

frig, i work two days a week, and missed the good sailing on those days for too long now. Feels like forever.
If i miss windsurfing i have serious side effects. Is that covid, or is that the vaccine side effects?
I actually know a Dr that knows. He told me that windsurfing is the answer.
Nothing but flying really matters.

It was windy today. Lots of happy sailors.

Epic session yesterday. Head to logo high waves and perfect cross shore. Life is good.

Wind dropped after everybody else went out, leaving me to go bigger, and buzz past all the others just floating. Really enjoyed myself.

I'm pretty sure windsurfing is the vaccine. But now i think i must have covid because this cold wont go away. And that is for sure because the wind keeps going MIA on my days off work.

99 jibes a day keeps the Dr away.
That is just about what i did on my last good session. It was magic. Sweet memories and pumped to do it again. I need a booster session now.
Windsurf or die.

First time ever today I had a young bird voluntarily go down to the beach with me.
Jumped in the back of the van and wouldn't get out with a couple of threats, so I let her come.
Opened the van up when I got there and it flew off. Poor thing will probably die.

Awesome day down in Albanakastan yesterday, huge crew out, flat water and lots of wind, plenty of stoke in the air.

Lucky baskets staying down there are going to feel butalised after 5 days of it

The new normal has gone pear shaped on me. I had good spring sailing in August- September, up to 40 sessions.
Now they are very few and far between.
It's gone sub-tropical, rare seabreezes in amongst still grey days.

My last two sessions produced strange lacklustre sail success happiness.
They were mild, very mild. Yet still wild.
Up the Lake the other day, with a cold after 14 days still, i set out into light wind, grey, as the waft of stoke drifts over the Island from epic speed sessions afar unimaginable to me, I headed out thinking that atleast the bug might get blown off me. Not much wind so i kept going. Achieved my first big crossing, 5k run on RSone longboard. Sweet. I could see foils in the distance over the other side, i think i might have went faster than them. ??

Days later - Today - went shopping, indeed it was a black friday, grey and rainy. Got a Patrik F-race 120, 6.5 and 7.5 Lion.
The seller and myself both eager to get it done in case there is a date with Huey, as there always could be, i grabbed the kit without hardly looking at any of it and made my way back down the coast home.
Wind awaits. Wow, unbelievable! Strong? Cant tell. Strong enough.
'Test the shopping' day was upon me, just like that. yeeew!
In the land of Jimmy's Beach were big boards are supreme, i expect this new-to-me *small board to be a crappy, sinking, slogging endeavor as has been previous attempts on smaller craft than i'm used to.
No, it was fun. It spunout, many times, i was always smiling as it was easy to recover. I could tack it, smilingly. It showed me short glimpses of how it can dance over small chop. It promised that it is ready to do silky smooth jibes when i'm ready. It went back upwind happily.
Maybe it just felt good to get out there and i imagined the board to be this good. It was definitely another pear shaped day so i don't know.
First i used the familiar to me KA 6.4 Kult with 40cm drake.
I went for a jump start maneuver off the shallows and got flung out the front. Think i may have cracked the nose there. I think this is a good way to be happy with a used board, before looking at it to inspect for blemishes you know are going to be there, just get it out, put some in it, and know it was you who did it.
First sail here on my SLW i hit bottom and totally smashed the nose. SLW is lovely after getting fixed up and all mine now. Warts and all.
It was hard to pick the wind today. I fumbled rigging the 7.5 Lion. Never seen an RDM mast before. Perplexed sitting in the sand as the mast extension would not fit in the mast, when only hours earlier up the road i watched the seller rig it lightening fast, and that extension definitely fit in then.
I licked it for some lube, i bashed a little with my hand, i wiped with rag.
Ahuh, i'd stuck the mast together the wrong way.
Next minute i was out there trying the twin cam sail. Sweet. That'll do. Good enough.
Mobdog came as the wind went lighter and had good runs on his falcon light wind.
Is it going to blow this season again? Will the big board reign supreme and this was just an expensive shopping spree? All i know is i'm much happier spending that money on kit, rather than say a bullbar, or plane trips, or a car lift kit. Or covid test kits. Learning to fly on water seems well worth it to me.

An eventful day for me at Lilacs, Snapped the starboard boom arm at the head. Thought I might be able to turn the boom upside down and sail back one sided. But the locking pins had also snapped on the good side, so had absolutely no outhaul. Thankfully I was close to shore, and mates came to my rescue. Might have to spend my Tax return on a new boom.