We're back from Australia. Not much fun getting back (stuck on the tarmac in SF for hours, arrived on Cape Cod at 1:30 am, freezing in a snow storm waiting for a taxi or Lyft that never came, so forced to stay over night in a hotel in Hyannis, then emergency room next day for a DVT diagnosis). But we had a blast. I'll just put up some numbers here:
- Days on the water: 36 (27 windsurfing, 9 winging); Nina had a few more days winging
- Biggest windsurf gear used: 95 l board/ 7.0 sail/ 21 cm fin
- Top speed (2 sec): 41.43 knots (47.7 mph, 76.7 km/h)
- Longest session: 331.58 km (Nina)
- Days with new PBs (personal bests): 16 (at 4 different spots)
- Total number of new PBs: 32 (18 Nina, 14 Peter)
- #1 rankings in the individual women's rankings on GPSTC: 4 (1 hour, alpha, distance, overall)
I lost my GoPro early in the trip, so I don't have any videos I made to post. But check out videos others made from Lake George:
There are a few more Lake George videos from this year at https://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps/First-trip-to-Lake-George--WOW-
Here's a video from Albany, where Nina sailed 11 hours in a row to re-capture the #1 spot in the women's distance ranking with 331.58 km sailed (that's the distance of about 8 marathons in a row):
We sailed on the day the video was taken (January 5), and set a total of 4 PBs. It was quite a bit windier than the day that Nina set her distance record! On the distance day, Nina was on our biggest gear, and when the wind dropped in the late afternoon, she even slogged for a while before she made it back to the launch. It would be very interesting to see what kind of distance she could do on a really windy day - but will we ever make it back to the fantastic speedsurfing spots in Oz?
