Lake George Glass (Video)

Following on from my Lake George Speed Run video is this vid of a light wind session with a few glassy patches.  The wind was probably 13-18 at most!

A Lake George Speed Run (Video)

Here is a short clip of the "normal" speed run at Lake George(near Beachport in South Australia).  The launch is on the northern side of cocky's point with the upwind leg heading WSW.  Winds on the day were only into the low 30's and I ended up with a PB 10s average of 43.89 GPSTC

A Close Shave Speedsailing - Lake George

At my last session at Lake George I had a Close Shave with my SA Speeed Demons team mate Choco.  As you can see from the footage I thought I was aware of all the sailors in my vicinity!  I started off a few hundread meters from another sailor and followed.  I passed them over the top and scanned back and forth for other sailors.  You can see a slight haze in my luff pocket at 1:43 and then Choco appears.  The nose of his board clipped the foot of my sail and if I had been a second later who knows what might have happened.  There was no reason to stop and I was on a NM so I finished the run and caught up with Choco later.

I have never had such a close shave and I think the conditions were a contributor.  You could sail fast on all tacks at a constant speed so 2 sailors could converge on a point from a long distance away being blissfully unaware of each other.  Choco was hidden by my luff pocket and I was in his blind spot upwind.

Lake George 2012-01-31

I had the good fortune of another trip to Lake George (big thankyou to my Wife ;) and this time I made sure I got some photos and video footage.  When I came 10 days ago I was focused on getting some pb's and so using the GoPro was another complication I could do without.  The morning was a change from the other days with a light 15-20 knot breeze and overcast conditions.  This allowed Lake George to show off its legendary glasssy conditions!

Gear rigged for the day.

 Choco & Hamma

 The Long Walk

 Carpark

 The trudge out

 The drag to deeper water

 Weedy start

 Weed wake

 Kato

 Tricky

 Falcon 89 Deck Concave

 Daffy

 Wake

 Time check

 Choco

 Spotty

 Glass in 20 knots!!!

 Glassy gybe exit

 More wake

 Dave

Hard to gybe badly here...

 Near miss with Choco...

Lake George 10-4-2011

I had a fun session down at Lake George near Beachport a few weeks ago.  Here are some of the stills I took with my GoPro.  I am still trying to edit the video footage I took.

Here is one of my favourite shots showing a nice arc to the gybe entry.

I went out on the 7.8 / 49 combo first - pushing the limits of the 49's range!

 The JP 49 hitting WARP speed ;)

JP 49 / 7.8 gybe sequence below...

Falcon 111 / 7.8 gybe sequence below...