Last day of Speed Fortnight and the wind finally tuned it on! Big time! 
But it was not an easy day at all. The wind was very up and down and squally. The down was 15-20, if that, the couple of squalls were 35+! There was a big squall just before I rigged up but from what I heard most of the other sailors missed it too. I had a couple of runs at 37-38 underpowered with the 5m and when I saw the cloud coming I grabbed the weight vest and took off on the back of it. Missed the strongest wind but was still waaay overpowered. I could not sheet in fully even right off the wind. Still a 43.7 peak and 42.56 10 sec. By the time I walked back the squall and wind had passed.
We stood around for almost an hour before the next squall came. This time I was ready with the 4.4m Koncept and went right on the start of the squall for the flattest water but still felt like I was getting thrown around big time. I had a spin out at the end of the run, looked down and saw my rope was unhooked so I threw it away to be safe. 43.02 peak and 42.01 10 sec. I hurried back and managed to get a second run in the squall. This time I felt more stable and it was the best run with 44.57 peak and 43.694 10 secs.
No more squalls and the wind went very broad, West to WNW. A couple of very difficult runs at 39's 10 sec and that was it. The tide was rushing in, the whoopdedoos were huge and it was time to excape before being trapped. The frustrating thing is the wind has picked up again to 30-40 and seems a bit more WSW now after we have left, but the inlet is super flooded so even if you walked in there would be no bank to run.
CA 40, 5.0m and 4.4m KA Koncepts, KA 20cm assy fin.
A good turn out today including Peter Wittenburg all the way from Europe!
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