Back in Nov, member Curac put forward a thread on what you all wanted to achieve this (last) Summer.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43290

Plenty of us put up our windsurfing desires and so now its almost Winter its time to fess up......did ya get the job done

My carve 360's...tried but failed to get right through
Vulcan........nope
Board building project.....yep finished the 'black death' a butchered bic adagio and got a pb 32.8 on it at Burrum.
So thats a 1/3......failure for me lucky there's another summer coming

How did you all go??

I tacked my waveboard:

gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2008-12-15&team=12

And grew enough gonads to do two loop attempts...

Didn't get round though. Maybe next season

P.S. Great thread btw

Mine was too get more vertical
I reckon I did pretty well
Leech? Miller? Rider? Gazza?

sailpilot said...

Back in Nov, member Curac put forward a thread on what you all wanted to achieve this (last) Summer.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43290

Plenty of us put up our windsurfing desires and so now its almost Winter its time to fess up......did ya get the job done

My carve 360's...tried but failed to get right through
Vulcan........nope
Board building project.....yep finished the 'black death' a butchered bic adagio and got a pb 32.8 on it at Burrum.
So thats a 1/3......failure for me lucky there's another summer coming

How did you all go??

Yep scored a NM PB of 33.48knts and i now have a speed board that doesnt scare that crap out of me. One happy Bender. bring on the winter fronts.......on weekends that is

Went out a lot more and got hooked again.
Became a Seabreeze member and got hooked on that too.
Discovered the joys of Safety Bay
Still can't gybe but I'm getting closer.
Bought extra gear and got both my kids sailing, hoped to get my son using the harness but that will have to wait for next summer.
My daughter is still working on getting back to the start point without walking back up the beach.
The main thing is they're still keen and looking forward to next summer.
7 / 10

i think i must have failed that one as i can't remember what those goals were?

I've only had a couple of decent sessions since that thread! The summer was pretty tame here..

Tidying up my top and bottom turns - bottom ones mostly.. Got better, need to carry more speed back up to the top again, and engage still more of the rail at the bottom
Jibes on my little gear (kinda related to the bottom turns I guess!) Yep, got around dry on a couple - none that were close to planing though
and planning to get stuck into loops (okay cheese rolls to start with) this season..Do tweaked out tabletops count? Or only if you land without breaking a boom with your head?

I'd say no - the season was a miserable failure for me. I'm holding out for some winter fronts, and hopefully a decent windy spring.

Hopefully there will be some wind this summer so I can go sailing. I'd like to use my smaller board more, do screaming broad reaches and go for carve gybes .

Buggered my back at work half way through summer so didn't get out all that much. Did do a bit of sailing before then and used the small board sometimes and made a few gybes.

sausage said...

1) Mine was to beat Sailpilot and,
2) it was to be able to tell my wife I was going sailing, rather than asking if I could.

One out of two ain't bad.................

Ok Sausage, you can put the baseball bat down now, I've had enough beatings. And just remember who's getting ya back from Green next month!. Maybe you'll let me have one division.....please.!

well my goal was to walk in particular un and down step let alone sail after doing the knee.

However the doc let me off the chain. So i've been:
wavesailing in mast high lumps all over the coast
cracked over 32knots
tacking a 67cm board 90% of the time
even started surfing again!!!

Sailed 4 to 5 days a week all summer.

1.Lost 10kg,s get planing earlier and can use the RRD 84L wave cult (bought in Sydney at xmas time) when its 20knts - it's made a ** load of difference to sailing and the fitness improves with it - can sail as long as most of these young whipper snappers now

2. Sailed a lot and getting more short board tacks and a few duckies (summer only as too cold to fall in during winter)

3. Put some of Cribbies Gibing ideas into action and planing out of gibes a little more often - and the tips wiork really well for wave face gybes as well - gotta love the speed out of them

4. Got my wife and kids into sailing the Funster and they love it

failed miserably
1. - still a kook at jumping on r) foot forward (?starboard tack / Adelaide northerlies - but can do some spectacular dismounts trying)
2. Having good wind and waves on the same day for a wave sailing club event - but the events were great fun!
3. Getting away somewhere remote with good wind waves and a few mates -have a sail drink and sit by the fire and crap on about the day


CJW - you've set the standard for next summer

Mine was to

Get off my 160 ltr and get something smaller; Yep
downwind carving; yep
tacking;yep
chop hop; yep
waterstart; yep
helitack; yep ish
jumps; yep ish
catapult; im a champion at this move
carve jibe; sort off ish
trying to find ways of letting my missus go more often; nope
trying to bribe my missus; nope

this years wish list

new board and sails
a go on some waves
carve jibe
pivot jibe
vulcun
get my missus into windsurfing

Carve gybe consistantly in chop on small gear. Getting good at timing entry so wave assists rather than hinders. Semi-pass.

Winning the race against the yachts and Skandia on a huge square course on my formula board. I win if the wind is strong and consistant or if not I lose badly. One time I came in 2 hours after sunset; 10knots, off shore 4kms (scary stuff). ALso planing downwind in chop is hairy as hell! Passes and fails.

Get out in my biggest wind and survive. 60knot peak (average 45knots)on a Sunday about a month ago on my 5.3m. Survival sailing mostly but made it. Broke mast and boom coming in, in shore break. Pass.

Avoid breaking equipment every month. Fail and broke.

Enjoyed myself immensely. Mega pass!