The water looked incredibly rough, I doubt I would've gone out in those conditions with that amount of wind, massive effort by competitors, shows you how many different levels there are in this sport!!
some of the crashes looked good!
howdy bender long time no hear....how was the honeymoon? you sounded a bit.......drained
Wow some good stacks there.
I didnt think that was all that rough we sail in the crap all the time haha.
One interesting comment in the description was the mention of production gear. About the only sailor (possibly) using custom gear is Chris Lockwood (slowboat) - even then, I think he uses a production model.
As for fast guys on production stuff @ 500m:
- Mal Wright 46.3 Missile XS
- Tony Wynhoven 44.5 Missile S
- Spotty 44.3 Carbon Art 44
- Daffy 43.0 ISonic 50
- Pierre 40.0 CA 44
Chris used production gear for his PB's. There is no doubt he has the fastest 500m run on production gear in the world.
Does that make him the 'Production World Record Holder' ? [}:)]
(Andrew ducks for cover.....
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After looking at those photo's we are very lucky to have a place like Sandy Point in Australia.
I still cannot believe that none of these top speed(international) sailors have even bothered sailing at SP,they run around the world looking for the best venue but by far the best place is here in oz.......what are they scared that the locals will kick their butts.
only reason everyone goes to sandy point is cause they haven't heard of burrum heads....
yet!!!!!
[}:)]
Oh yeah.
Southeaster have started for 2008 so we'll start counting. It helps to live close and just go when every thing is right. Now until May we usually get SE'ers every fortnight and they usually last for 5-7 days. 35-40 knots is a big call for up here but 22-30 knots is common. Perfect us soft QLD'ers.
