berny Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 Definitely a Summer interest here in Oz if activity on this forum is any indication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 G'day Berny waiting for sail delivery then venturing into the water. (Which is surprisingly warm I noticed today when I went for a surf) Yeah the only postings on the forum seem to be for sale notices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted June 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Hi Alex, Where do you surf and did you get any waves? Maybe the reason the boats are 4 sale is that shopping has taken precedence. Lakes are empty, Malls are full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Just went out on the beach break at Warrilla. Pretty small but looked like it was trying to get up under the SW wind. Only went out for an hour or so. In regard to what you said about shopping... Have you ever checked out some of the websites of the Victorian clubs? They seem to have several classes sailing regularly Whereas in NSW (Outside of the Sydney area at least)clubs struggle just to survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted July 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 Anyone interest in a social sail at Balmoral tomorrow. I'm in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berny Posted July 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 What a day. Got there 11.30 (a bit late for winter), with 10/15k of wind as forecast. Needed to rig my new spi halyard which extended rigging time somewhat but I was finally on the water around 1.30. No wind! Drifted for 1/2 an hour then some fluky 2/3k stuff started but it was swinging 90deg, very frustrating. Got a decent spi run in a 5 min. gust then it died again. Next thing, the tackline detaches from the sail? (bad knot) After a slow trip back to the beach and an equally slow tacking feast back out, I finally got to set the kite again only to discouver that when I had re-attached the tackline (without setting the kite) (blunder) I'd created a huge tangle/twist in the kite. I gave up. Except for dropping the mast during de-rigging, it was a good day........NOT! New halyard is great and my recent change to a 1:1 tackline was a success making setting and retrieval much smoother. Not all bad I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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