Quick Friday night session

There wasn't really any wind predicted but when we got up north indeed there was a reasonable SW convection wind blowing.

I raced out and got the Duke 6.2 sail and the Fanatic Freewave 116 board. I managed to get a bunch of runs just blasting back and forth. I was also having fun doing a few duck jibes, upwind 360s etc. and my sail feel improved when I shortened the boom by 2cm to get more curvature in the sail. I'm not sure whether I like it more or the Skate 108 for blasting, I need to do a bit more back to back sailing on those two.

The first 2/3 of the session was on the Duke 6.2 and Freewave 116
The last 1/3 was on the NP V6 7.0 and faster Ray 122

After the wind died a bit I took out the NP V6 7.0 and used the Ray 122 for the first time this year. I got it up to 44 km/h on one run.

An image of the 2014 Fanatic Freewave 96, I have the 116 - for waves

Image of my 2013 Fanatic Ray 122 - for speed

The Ray is a fast board with so much relative stability due to its 76 cm width. Even though it is only 1 cm wider than the Techno, I'm kind of tempted to try it with the foil some time!

I think this was the first session this year that I didn't try foiling at all. Overall an hour and 45 minutes of clean windsurfing fun.