up here there is 25-30 NW forecast but wont be able to sail flat water till 2pm,here at port sorell.

I will have to go with you next time.

there was no wind in town.

cheers russ

Dave are you sailing tomorrow

we need you guys to attack the hour while we go for speed and maybe a NM if the forecast stays the way it does....will Houston post??

blowing here big time right now,but just got to wait for tide now.

gear packed on car i will see you there Easty

cheers Russ

so will you post now??

cool good to see you getting it sorted.

Nice to meet you Russ and Easty and it was great to get out again today I Took my new GPS out to for the first time, my max speed was only 17.66 (no where near you Russ) but it felt fast haha. I posted my results from today up on the GPS team challenge website; I’m looking forward to improving a LOT on these

Great to hear the wind did come in and came in well by the sounds of it. Great photos!!!

Hey Russ, good to hear you had your GPS on. Try posting to the GPS TC site by doing the following:
Take out the Memory Card and stick it in your computer.
Go to the following website (http://www.ka72.com/freeUpload.aspx)
Locate the file from your session today (by date) and upload it to this site.
Use the automatic posting on this site to post to the GPS TC website

It really is as easy as turning on your GPS before sailing and turning it off when you finish. Then uploading that single file to the ka72 website which will post your results into the GPS TC. You should have your results in the system within about two minutes and there is no converting off files, checking data or anything else - it's all completely automatic.

Try this and if you have any issues, give me a call!!

AUS02 said...


Hey Russ, good to hear you had your GPS on. Try posting to the GPS TC site by doing the following:
Take out the Memory Card and stick it in your computer.

Hey Dave, Russ was using one of those units that go on your wrist, like an oversize watch - I don't think they use a SD card.

I was actually talking to Dave today about those posts, he said he nearly hit one too. With the sun so low in winter it's hard to see anything when sailing out. I suspect they are there to warn boaties of the sandflat, but they are definately not regulation hazard markers, and are half way down the sandflat. Call M.A.S.T. and see if we can remove them.
Did your board survive outside the hall?

AUS02 said...

Be good to replace with two flouro marker buoys at either end of the bay to race around. Maybe we can ask MAST whether we can do that at the same time?

Now that's a good idea!

I think those posts at Dorans could be totally taken out, there's no channel there and boats don't go up into there anyway. I kayaked around them last weekend and the one with the cross (well x cross) is just lying in the water next to the little stump now sticking up. It's just waiting for some nice little windsurfer to tread on or wipe out their fin on. Or worse!!!! Might take a walk out there on low tide one day and see if they actually move.

Easty,

Thanks for the photo's kind regards Russ

Dave,

I have been using the fortrex watch gps. I will get the gt11 going soon i like the fortrex because its easy.


Cheers Russ

Anthony,

You were very lucky not to do more damage to yourself. Stay safe mate, are you sure the Walker Corp didn’t place those stakes there??? How ironic you hit the stakes on the day you were celebrating saving Ralphs bay......