Nice to have some wind!!!
But is there a special term for a day where you crash and get a board in the eye, then the wind rips the stuff out of your hands on the beach, hitting a gazebo and smashing the rail of your board in, and breaking the GoPro mount u have only used once after spending ages making it, and then you get home and the vacuum pump just died making board repairs a bit harder. Grr
I thought of some bloody words for it, trust me....... 
Hope y'all had a better time 
Not a good day to buy a lottery ticket Mark!
You haven't offended some God or the other have you?
Past karma catching up perhaps.
Bad luck Mark. 
Wasn't too pleasant at Melville today either. Gusty, choppy, heavy rain...
No place for a faint heart at Melville.
Wind was all over the place,choppy as and freezing.
Downright dangerous conditions and that includes being hit by flying sails on the lawn.
One sail got picked in a huge gust and flew about 15ft over one blokes head---- he didn't even notice!
Gee, sorry to hear that Mark!
I think every once in a while we all have days like that, I've had a few in the past myself and they are incredibly frustrating.
I tried Avalon Point down in Mandurah, and although I was quite overpowered with the 4.7m2, it was a great day... I just had to take breaks after every second lap because my forearms where at their limit 
So is that how you managed to get your finger through there?
Sorry to hear of your misadventures.
I escaped without injury to myself or gear but did not have a good time at all. 
Called it quits after less than 3 km.
Roll on summer!
wow... sounds like it got a little untidy Mark! Hope it wasn't the Goya. It's times like these you could do with a minty and failing that a good size snickers
hope the eye is ok. Material items can be repaired, but flesh hurts and harder to replace
It seems 35 knots was the average everywhere. down our way every one got flogged on a 4.0 or 4.2. A nice steady 35 to 45 as safety bay must have been interesting.
Here are some pics. Aaron Gavin and Matt Gwynne seemed to cope well. I am not sure how doing massive backies can help a bad heel. Only six months ago Matt had smashed his heel into dust. Not enough bone fragments left to fuse together.
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No place for a faint heart at Melville.
Wind was all over the place,choppy as and freezing.
Downright dangerous conditions and that includes being hit by flying sails on the lawn.
One sail got picked in a huge gust and flew about 15ft over one blokes head---- he didn't even notice!
That bloke was me, and I did notice! I was rigging up and flash of white flew past my head.
If the mast foot hit me or anyone else it would've been lights out. I was lucky and so was the dude who owned the rig.
People have to be more careful, If ya can't look after your gear properly in 35-40 knots ya shouldn't be out there!
