Usage this fin Year so far mostly Redcliffe and the lake.

Sails

4.7 2 times
5.4 5 times
6's 21 Times ( 3 rigs in this range)
7's 20 Times ( 2 rigs in this range)


Boards

83 LTR 6 Times
92-101 ltr 19 Times (2 boards in this range )
112-120 ltr 23 times (3 boards in this range )

If you had to have one board and say 2 rigs it wouldn't be hard to work out what to get.

and you don't weigh that much.

so do you think that is a good season or bad season? and is that from july last year till now?

Gestalt said...

and you don't weigh that much.

so do you think that is a good season or bad season? and is that from july last year till now?

Yes July 1 to now. 89 kgs( working on that this winter).
The wind was lower this year. I'll get the stats for 08/09 tonight. Smaller baords more often at a glance.

2008 2009 stats
Note: more than one sail used in session in this year.

84 ltr 16 times
101 Ltr 16 times
112 Ltr 16 times
136 ltr 4 times

4.7 7 sails
5.4 10 "
6.2 17 sails
7.4 18
9.0 4

You can see why the large kit was sold. The difference also in 2008/2009 was I nearlly always sailed Redcliffe, more wind and bump and jump gear doesn't need to be that big. The 2010 result was chasing flat water for GPS. Less wind, A lot more unreliable. A lesson in that as well. Actually teaching kids took me to flat water where I would normally sailed Redcliffe as well. They had better advance fast this year coming.

Gestalt said...

2006 12.7 0.1 13.8 15.2 -9.8 -5.5 -8.9 -15.9 -5.1 -15.3 -1.4 -3.0
2007 -7.3 -2.7 -1.4 -3.0 -2.7 5.0 -4.3 2.7 1.5 5.4 9.8 14.4
2008 14.1 21.3 12.2 4.5 -4.3 5.0 2.2 9.1 14.1 13.4 17.1 13.3
2009 9.4 14.8 0.2 8.6 -5.1 -2.3 1.6 -5.0 3.9 -14.7 -6.7 -7.0
2010 -10.1 -14.5 -10.6 15.2 10.0
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

it's an interesting comparison.

the above figures are soi numbers. positive over a few months indicates la nina and negative indicates el nino. interesting that it corresponds to your data.

models are expecting positive right up until march next year. so don't sell the small gear.

50% of those numbers are below average. Interesting.

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Ha HA Panda

Agree, mostly bigger gear this year, 6.6 and 7.4 had plenty of use but I've been sitting on a new 5.9 for 6 months and haven't even rigged it yet

Just shows what a difference 15kgs makes.

No. of times used this year to date (all in Yeppoon except 4 sessions at Burrum)

Boards
iS122.............23
iS101.............15
iS76............... 5

Sails
Code Red 8.8........21
Code Red 7.7........6
Koncept 7.5.........2
Koncept 6.6.........9
Code Red 6.1........4
Overdrive 5.0........1

And here it is in colour

I always find these sorts of stats interesting.

I started using a GPS whilst sailing in August 2004. I have logged 90% of my sessions since then noting the equipment I used. In that time the equipment ranges from formula board with 11.6m sail down to 44cm wide speed board at 5.0m sail ... and everything in between.

In 246 sessions I have averaged the following:

Average sail size used - 7.0m
Average wind speed - 17.6knots
Average fin size used - 35.83cm
Average board width - 63.66cm
Max speed achieved - 45.43 knots (2 sec)
Total Distance sailed - 11,032.29km
Average efficiency - 1.93 (*)

(*) average efficiency is a bit sketchy. I've divided my max speed in knots by the max wind speed to give this figure. There are many other variables, but this is still an interesting calculation. In light wind (iS131 + 8.3 Koncept with 50cm Venom) the 'efficiency' can be staggering. In strong wind with 4.7m Kult on Kode 86 the 'efficiency' is almost break-even, i.e. 30 knots of wind with 30 knots of board speed.

If I was to ever get sick of all my gear and just get one board and one rig, then theoretically I could just use the stats above to get the perfect fit.

I just like my toys too much ...

Chris Dimond said...

Sausage, must be an Architect thing.

So who is veering towards less equipment, and who is veering towards more?
I was intending to reduce the size of my quiver, but have gone the opposite.

I think I've finally completed my quiver though:

Boards:
80 litre Evo
98 litre JP FrestyleWave
111 litre Starboard Carve

Fins
wave: 23, 29, 31
freestyle: 24 (still unused)
freeride: 36, 40

sails
wave: 4.7 5.4 6.2
freeride/race: 5.9 7.2

From memory I used the 5.4 & 98 litre the most last season, especially early Summer.

Would like one more fin for ultra light days, 12 knots. and then the quiver is truly complete. Maybe a light wind sail too, hmm...

Just figured my gear cost more than my car.

choco said...

i'm not into shoe boxes but love donuts 2010

Nice donuts, but I'm more a pie man (residing in a ultra modern messy shoebox).

I had an excellent spring, sailing a mostly on a JP FSW 101L and 6.2 NP Alpha. Ther were possibly days that I could have used a smaller sail, but getting bogged down at Paly is no fun, and I prefer to hand on to a big sail in teh gusts, if it means I can blast out through a shorebreak instead of being hammered.
Hoping to shed 5kg over winter so I can turn a lot of 6.2 days into 5.8 days.
I bought heaps more gear too, turing the FSW into a FS and a wave, and adding a 5.8 and a 5.3, with plans to travel more to stronger wind.
Summer and autumn was not so good for me. I had two left feet when it came to catching wind. HAd a few good sails though, despite that.

This is a great thread, I think I might be shocked into recording sessions to get some more relevant gear, I like yours Sausage, very s****y

KenHo said...
In any discussion of statistics, by definition, 50% will be above teh mean, 50% will be below the mean.

Guys come on!

By definition, 50% will be above the median. The mean is something else

Take 10 numbers
1,2,1,2,3,2,1,2,5,400

Mean is over 40

9 of the numbers are below the mean

90% of the numbers are below the mean