GPS Team Challenge - Mandurah Mob (WA, Australia)

Well that blew the cobwebs out, along with a number of muscles and joints that have been in hibernation. There seemed to a good-sized circus of gainfully underemployed on the water, the usual suspects from the WASTed, plus a number of keen commuters along with the mighty MH Mobbers. I reckon pretty much all of them will give it a worthy Google review: good wind, good weed, and enough water for an inside run if you wanted.

I was keen to make a start on testing my stash of bizarre prototype fins. The first on the board today was an 21 cm 8% chord with a massively over developed fillet.

Bully boy fat Basil (723km):

263 days ago

Coodanup, WA, AU Best conditions so far this season.God company .Good sailing

(Puf-) fin (766km):

263 days ago

Coodanup, fangys,

Yep... that was a good arvo sail in the weedy goodnes, but did get tiring at the end ,and nearly came off in the midle of the thick weed.

Had the old wintec kinetic, 5.8 ka kon, with 50- 17cm weedy.

Decrepit (1775km):

263 days ago

Another fun fangy session.

A few of us launched at Wamba st, wasn't too bad, the rest seemed to come from John st, probably less of a walk out, but a longer upwind run in chop.

I made a good choice today, 55cm board, 5.7 speed and 17cm@55deg.

Didn't actually blast through the weed bank, but it was possible at speed in a chanel. A few times I missed a channel I went through sideways.

From Wamba st looked like the speed bank was long enough for a NM, so I tried it, but ran into chop towards the end of the run.

However, there was a great 2s section on the inside of the weed bank, very flat at optimum angle, as you can see from my tracks.

note, all the 10s runs are in the same place, that's my top speed spot.

Improved my over 80 2s and 5X10, got to be happy with that.

Flex

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Just pure fin porn there Fangy. I see you stil have the broken nose though...do you think that makes any difference? Sorry to hear the solar storm effected your 40kt run...I guess many will report the same issue?

Nauli

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Great numbers Mike!!

fangy

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Flex I sanded out the broken nose and made it the duck's nuts at the filling with epoxy stage (after this photo was taken). The fin isn't a win atm, but with some of my usual linisher carnage, I am sure I will get something a little more useful.

Maree Jordan

NSW
Australia

263 days ago

Great numbers guys

MobZ

NSW
Australia

263 days ago

Nice fin fangy. I was going to go out and do 40, i wasn’t worried about the geo storm wiping it if I got it but I’d want to do it on that backside clanging fin as it would be pretty scary I think.

Flex

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Fangy, thanks to Mobz enthusiasm woz motivated to get back into new fin designs, ideas are many but other projects been robbing my time to execute...latest fin should be in the post to him tomorrow though...if you don't see any more posts or YT vids from that chap you will know why...

fangy

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Alas poor Mobz.

SluGger

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Great going fellas 😎😎

Elmo

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Nice going peoples, late arrival and an bloody cottage cheese oozing third nipple gave me a lack of interest tonight

fangy

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Is that a euphemism, Elmo? (given the mental picture, I am sort of hoping it is ...)

waricle

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Sorry I didnt back you up fellas but it looks like I didnt need to

Peter

USA
United States of America

263 days ago

Nice speeds, Mike! And it's good to see Fangy getting poetic again. Seeing that the weed seems good now, but will probably be dead again in January, Nina and I are looking into options to come back earlier next year, even if that requires a trip to a place like Borocay in the middle due to visa restrictions and a distinct lack of desire to return to the US when temperatures are near freezing.

Elmo

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Unforunately it's not a euphemism

It's an infected sebaceous cyst, on antibiotics, but eventually will need to be cut out.

Richo 72

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Great speeds Mike and all 👍

fangy

WA
Australia

263 days ago

Peter, yes the weed is usually done by January, but would be cool to have you back here.

And for all those disbelieving my GPS data robbery caused by the gods - the Coodanup Foreshore has had a good Aurora Australis display (by our standards anyway.)

Elmo...just eughhhh!

MobZ

NSW
Australia

263 days ago

Poor old Budgy smugglers won’t know what hit them when I turn up packin warp fins and blast into yet another dimension. Geo storm was seen this side as far north as port Macquarie - latitude-ish Geraldton. Was a cold night. I left camera at home, maybe I could see It naked eye or I was just imagining it over Jimmy’s beach. Decrepit’s GPS seems to be working good, nice speed 👍

Decrepit

WA
Australia

262 days ago

MobZ

Fingers is beating me on the NM, we both have 28s not far apart, yesterday I saw a 28.71 on the watch, so though that may change things. But it's exactly the same as I already had, still under Fingers 28.74. But I had hope, the GPS on my head that I always post from, quite often is a bit higher than the watch.

So I plugged the watch data into GPSSpeedReader, and yes there was a small difference, BUT it went the wrong way, it's only a 28.6 something.

So I'm not too pleased with it at the moment!

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