I haven't been out in two weeks. Apparently sandy was good today..
Should I drive out to inverloch tomorrow? Or sandy even?
Really need to get a sail
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i give up 
Wasn't too bad on the bay yesterday. I was planing all the time for 2.5 hours at Hampton on 110l + 7.0sqm. Not very exciting, but not enough time to go to the ocean.
Sadly, it seems I need 0.5--1sqm more sail on average compared to the previous summers :(. Ginger, thought about buying bigger gear?
I wonder if the seabreeze will get over 15kn this arvo...
Hooray
Got out with a 5.8m on a 111l skate at Dendy this alvo. Planed out of my first duck gybe which was nice....
Yeah had a sweet seabreeze hit Mornington about 6pm. About time! Fingers crossed for one tonight.
Same forecast again for tomorrow, hopefully different result 
, but then this should be my final low-wind whinge ever ! 
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2 months ago if somebody had asked me if I'd be interested in cruising around on "big gear" I would have said no. But lately I've been giving it some thought. Question is, if your wanting to plane fairly easily in 8-14 knots of wind what type of gear would you need. My thoughts would be something similar to a 133 slalom board and 8.5/9m cambered sail. Is this too small still for a 80kg sailor?
I picked up an old Tyronsea 330 from ebay for $50, its in bloody good condition too. For those hot summer days where there is around 0 - 10 knots its good fun just mucking around on it in my boardies. Big enough to take the missus out sitting on the front, or a group of kids.
I think its called light wind loven 
anything bigger than 5.7 is poo, even 5.7 is gumby .
nothing feels better than a tad o'er power'd up on a 5 - come alive
In SURF 8/2009 they tested how big your gear needs to be in light winds. Thought this might interest some of you. Here is how many knots of wind you need for planing on the different setups according to them (~80kg experienced sailor, lake, on-water windspeeds).
Board/Sail (with pumping, w/o pumping, planing through, top end)
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Lorch Glider 129, Sailoft Traction 7.5 (10-11, 12-13, 9, >20)
Fanatic Shark 145, Severne Glide 8.5 (8, 11, 7, 15-16)
Tabou Manta 79, Gaastra Vapor 9.3 (9, 12, 8, >18)
Formula, Point-7 11.0 (7, 10, 6, 15-16)
Edit: My personal conlusion is to stick to 7.5 or less (largest that rigs on a 4.60) cause anything bigger feels really massive to me and I can live with not planing in <10kn.
For the breakwater-to-beacon, I used a formula board + 9.5m sail.... and was a little underpowered, so not sure if something less would have been enough to be planing 100% of the time.
If you want to go sub-10kn, then you are going to need a 10m+ and a wide board (wider than slalom)... I've tried formula in 6kn (as measured using a windmeter on the Sandy Point spit) to find that you need the odd few knots of gust to pump onto a plane.
If 10kn is your minimum, then you can get away with a slightly smaller rig, say 8/9m + a large (and light-weight) slalom board can work -> a large'ish Starboard Futura works really nice.
Well Santa didnt get me and 8m+
(I was hardly going to entrust buying windsurf equipment to family!)
But my wife did manage to come through with this 0.02 Metre & 0.01 Litre setup
(theyre on UK ebay)
Should extend my high wind range !
