I only saw flipper - but was thinking about your shark story as I was treading water waiting for a gust to water start - da duh da duh daduhdaduhdaduh
The sailing was a bit of fun at least - but o for a consistent 25knts instead of 20 mins of 15-25 then half hour of 0-15

I had them circling me on my swimming in, Needless to say the first sight had me breathing pretty heavily!

haha no worries.

Yea went out after with a bigger a sail and more wind and caught my first waves, loved it!!

russh said...

barri said...

I had them circling me on my swimming in, Needless to say the first sight had me breathing pretty heavily!

Was an impressive swim - welcome to day st - 30 knts one minute - sheet glass the next - it doesn't matter what you rig cause at some stage it will be right

It is definately the flukiest wind ive sailed in, but semaphore is pretty good in that respect.
Lets just hope that's my swim out the way.....but i doubt it ha

Cheers Richard, definitely glad that wind came back up!

Slim Jim said...

Young fella,
1. Uphaul
2. More volume - When the wind is offshore (the conditions a wave sailor craves) it's gusty, full stop - adapt to it - I ride 18L more volume than my body mass - biggest breakthru I had when I was learning. Perhps, save the smaller board (vol approaching mass) for Mid Coast sessions when the N'ly is roaring unimpeded down the Gulf.

Yea i definitely need to get used to gusty conditions, never really had to yet.
I was riding 92l freestyle wave and my other board is a 133l starboard carve. Would you recommend using that in waves?
Also, i had only rode that board once before so I was a bit shaky on such a low volume.
As for the uphaul i had a new boom and forgot to put it on... maybe i was just a little too excited haha.
Thanks!

divaldo said...

http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/fisheries/fishwatch/sharks/shark_sighting_log

Note the entry for Beachport on the Sunday 8th April (Easter weekend)

Surf was great about 800 metres down the coast that day!

its funny people log PT JACKSON shark sightings??
one of those couldn't eat the skin off a old custard tart.

more to the point how the hell do you see one??

yer seen the "retro" dolphin for a few weekends in a row now. shiwt myself when i first saw it, cos it doesnt go up an down as much as a normal dophin, kind of loves driving a bow wave........and its big