Nice shots Jason. Did you get any today??

As fast as a seagull
Nice shots Jase.

bushfire said...
As fast as a seagull
Nice shots Jase.

Faster then a seagull...Much faster.

Sorry guys none from Saturday, I've a few more from Friday that I'll try and get on Flickr tonight after work along with the hi-res versions of the above for anyone that wants to download them.

I'll post the link when I've got it done, Cheers.

Great shots ! Just wondering where you rig up/launch and what suburb that is in the background (I'm originally from the Illawarra but I don't recognise that area).

I haven't sailed on Lake Illawarra since the late 80s or anywhere since 1994 ! But my wife & I have retained equipment (incl 3 boards of varying lengths) from that era and we're planning to move to the Shellharbour area (from Canberra) in the coming months when the sale of our house goes through (touch wood).

So, like some others I just read about in another thread, I have the idea of using the old stuff to get reacquainted with windsurfing. A few months ago I rode past Oak Flats Sailing Club so I thought that area might be a good area to start (cycling is my obsession now). Back in the 80s, while visiting family in Wollongong, I went out a lot on the lake from the yacht club at Warrawong and also from Berkeley, as well as off the beach at Towradgi & Corrimal.

Anyway, I'll see if I can get out again sometime after we get settled down there.

Greg

Thanks very much for all that information, Mike. I look forward to making my windsurfing 'comeback' in the Illawarra next summer!

Greg

Thanks, Eckas. Wow, that looks pretty serious. While I have Garmin devices for cycling and running, it hadn't occurred to me how easy it would be these days to record your speed when sailing. That's how long I've been away! Good to see that there are people of my vintage in your club (one year younger than the upper end of of the Grand Master age group !).

Back in the 80s I enjoyed reading the reports of speedsailing records in the magazines and still remember the images like those below of Pascal Maka and Fred Haywood blasting to new marks (taken from scans I made of articles in my windsurfing magazine collection, before I gave it to another forum member a year or so ago).

Now I'm inspired to get out on the Lake again on my old 8'9" fibreglass board (bought from the old Performance Sailboards shop in Flinders St) to relive some of my younger days ! However, I'm under no illusion about how much the equipment and techniques have changed - I happened to buy an issue of UK Windsurf back in 2008 that had an article by Peter Hart explaining those changes in great detail, in the context of telling the story about a guy of my vintage who was making a comeback with equipment from 1990.

Greg