Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
Welcome to 1992 on a windsurfer. The race always was both ways. Some peeps here seem to not know that...?
However, ballsy effort unless you had 10 flares, EPIRB, phone, and told plenty of people your intentions.....
Even then..... 
Hats off ... but compared to any form of surface slappin' it has to be way easier on a foil and less aggro on the knees.
Imagine the 'Round Rotto' for all the sports, with 12-20 each drawn from a hat in surface windsurfer, foil windsurfer, foil kite, surface kite and all-forms strapless. Have to keep numbers low for safety.
(Might be easier to do the 'Round Karnac').
Who runs the Rotto Bakery? The winner gets a year's free pies! ;).
Select to expand quoteBletti said..
83.6km next year's course? 
Using this map, it looks feasible to be able to do it in as few as 5-6 tacks in a SW'ly.
Maybe that should be the goal in any event - the least tacks.
Select to expand quoteBletti said..
Zeeko spitfire wave foil on a shortened shinnster and a 7m kite. Foiling from 12-30kts so it handled the strong south winds and wind shadowed north side well.
Hi Bletti
Just wondering what you mean by 'shortened Shinnster'? .... Oops, I just read further & saw your mods - great innovation. I have an early Shinnster which I like a lot. Used it before I got into foiling. I then glassed in inserts according to instructions from Mark Shinn, bolted on the carbon plate & have been using a Zeeko alloy foil with it. I really like the board but 150cm would have been a perfect length I recon.
Thanks. Gus
