You'll be pleased to know I sailed both thurs and Friday at Vicci Point , 7.0 and 96 hypersonic thurs and 8.6 and 128 sp naish yesterday ... Manly this afternoon with Jeff, I'll take EVERYTHING
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What time yous going?
Hi bob not sure which location you are referring to?
we are meeting at Rq early this arvo. Pete and Duncan already here
just waiting for wind to fill in
cheers jeff
The early bird caught the worm this morning. John sailed 30km at Bongaree early starting with 7.5 plus freeride board and ending up with 9.5 and SLW with 70cm fin as the wind died right off. I did a couple of runs back and forth at 11am with my 59cm fin and 9m sail and didn't stand a chance. Dag showed up late and declared he already hates winter after only 2 days and was going to break out the Wally 
Told myself I wanted some exercise. Left Bongaree with about five or six knots ( on the Walley ). Parallel with the shoreline all the way to Deception Bay (south of the water tower). Nearly there and the wind shifted to the east, and I knew it was going to pick up. Pinched up-wind toward Scarborough to Not Caboolture River and some very hard work home across the bay in 20-25 knots. 30km's only tacked 1nce. Bugger me I'm gunna be sore for a while.
"Police report man missing in Deception Bay on some kind of antique kitesurfing device."
I'm heading up for sail at Bongaree about 10 o'clock. Hope there's enough wind for a shortboard if not going to borrow one of Darren's longboard. See you there if anybody's keen
Something missing from Deception Bay is just normal Brad, no-one bothers even reporting it any more. Completely unpredictable wind up here at the moment, the only predictable part is that the wind will blow at some point during the day
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"Police report man missing in Deception Bay on some kind of antique kitesurfing device."
Haahhaa!!! Just read it!! They still make em mate! Adam wasn't impressed with his first go on one today.
Nothing to compare it against though. He had to go back after a while because he was starting to get sore.
Wind was at the higher end of the Walley scale unless your used to them (or seasoned).
I'm with Adam, they're rubbish and I've never even used one. You can't beat a windSUP for versatility, doesn't glide as good as a wally, but you can paddle it and even catch little waves if that floats ya boat.
There's plenty of things to compare a Wally to, I've owned one.
Sticking a pencil in your eye, hitting yourself on the head with a hammer, telling your wife her arse looks big in those jeans.......
Unimpressed with the one design but very impressed with the guys that can ride them. I'm just glad I did not learn on one of those. For my first month I was on a big start. Then went to a 160 funster. Now I have moved on to smaller boards.
Must try and find some old photos of the crew back in the early 80's sailing the original windsurfer with fixed centre boards from out front of the Bongaree boat ramp area. Pebble Beach was a farm back then and had no access so we needed to learn in the channel with the current and gusty SE wind. To listen to the complaining about the windsurfer has me baffled, sure we moved onto race boards and short boards but everyone still would have fun on the odd days when wind was light and we need some sort of wind fix.
To this day I remember my first run of about 20 metres on the plane and how it hooked me for life. 35 years since first learning on a windsurfer I still have a buzz when the mast flexes the sail backwinds and the boom expands as you drag the thing up on the plane. Plenty of red eyes from the water blasting into your face from the centreboard.
I have my kite foil that I hope to stick into the centre board slot soon and see if we cannot make this spruce goose fly.
Ha, mate if ya learn on one, even now, you'll always know how to ride one. Habits are hard to undo (good and bad one's).
Love to see you go "Mad Scientist" on it.
Love to see some of those photo's too if you find them. Didn't realize till a little while the other day that I was talking to
Marcus Shultz from back in the day. He's gone to the other side too, haha! He was over at Bongaree and we were twiddling our thumbs waiting for wind. An "Old Crew on Old Board's Day" would be something to see. Maybe we can make it happen.
Talk about cracking a nut with a sledge hammer, he's taken it too far this time, I'm not going to be able to sleep with those fluoro boardies etched into my retinas 
Sorry guy's, It cracks me up every time I see that one. Fool on a Walley made me think of him.
I reckon he's the Russell Coight of windsurfing. I've got a different sense of humour.
So long as I made myself laugh. I'm going to try and find those boardies now.
Is it possible that weather forecasters use a prize wheel of some sort that they spin and issue a completely different forecast every hour that still never happens 
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Is it possible that weather forecasters use a prize wheel of some sort that they spin and issue a completely different forecast every hour that still never happens
+1 BINGO!! Its been ages since theyve got the forecast anything like the real conditions. Plan 'B' is never as much fun as time spent zapping around on a sailboard.
Sandstone is looking good around 11 if anybody's keen. I know it's hard to get keen on these overcast rainy winter days but the wind is blowing
Hope to see you there.
