Bobson
Log Started:
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Total Records: 919
This Year: 151
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Friday October 18, 2024
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Willows Bch, Windfoiling
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Friday October 18, 2024
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Conditions
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TOW
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Toys Used:
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Willows Bch, Windfoiling
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S 12 - 21
wavey
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2.00 hours
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Goya Airbolt 135
Sailworks Flyer 4.5
Slingshot Stabilizer PS400 280
Slingshot Phantasm Foil PTM-926 1263
Slingshot Phantasm Fuse 872
Slingshot Phantasm Carbon Mast 82cm
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I think that I'm getting soft, I had to wear gloves today. Sorry! Arrived early at 11am and waited for the wind for an hour with Snarfer, MtnarG and Sir Lancelot. It didn't look good until within about 5 mins the wind went from 5kts to 15kts. Everyone rushed to get out, MtnarG on his 8, Snarf on his 7, Lance on his 6 maybe? and me on a tiny 4.5m. My new Goya Airbolt from Dirty Mermaid is long enough and narrow enough to get enough board speed to be able to pump, pump, pump and BOOM, up on foil, especially easy with the smaller 4.5m sail which is very easy to pump. Took a few trips over towards Jemmy Jones and back where the waves and swell were very large with a confused sea state but better wind over that, more steady. The wind was pretty gusty and holey but enough to keep foiling if watching for the puffs to gybe. The 4.5m Sailworks flyer is so easy to pump, it's like pumping a kids sail so really not tiring at all. Some doods arrived a bit later as the wind was dying so that wasn't coolio at all. As I was packing up to leave there were 6-7 Doods waiting for the wind to come back and apparently it did so that is pretty coolio!! Anyways, great session after the wind came (all ways). It started fairly SE but as the session went on it clocked around to pretty much S and after that, died to nothing with a few of us still out. I managed to schlog in after floundering for a couple mins. I didn't quite get my 50kms in today, but better than a kick in the pants and although the weekend looks pretty wet, it looks like there will be enough wind to make it work. Sunday look like a Wing-day hopefully!!
BOBSON OUT!!
| GPS Track: RB - Foiling in the Waves | 11:59 AM to 2:05 PM |
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| Moving Time | 01:59:16 | | Foiling Time | 01:43:24 | | Distance (km) | 45.9 | | Speed (Max/2s/100m knots) | 18.9 / 18.9 / 18.7 | | Number of Turns | 56 (98% Foiling) | | MAX 2024: 23.1 kt, 247 turns, 100% | TOTAL 2024: 5,885 km, 268.0 hours | | MAX: 29.6 kt, 256 turns, 100% | TOTAL: 25,217 km, 1,072 hours |
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