Nice day at LF, wind angle seemed almost perfect and it looked windy enough but decent speeds on the coarse was not happening.

The wind had no power and felt a bit hollow, good crowd on the water made it a good day though.

Its been a great trip.... heading home on wednesday.

Amazing how the spot can change within 24h! Yesterday there were no shallow parts near the shore, today someone hit the sandbar and broke his mast.

So I went for short safe runs. It looked as if the wind was strong but somehow it gave not enough power.

Nice sailing with the UK guys, Martin who showed up and all the others. It was regrettable my Belgian speedfriends were not here to push me.

Tried all the fins Dave borrowed but best speed was with this Caspar.

This session brought me a little PR

Display showed 70.09 km/h  

1 sec speed in GPSAR 70.30 km/h

Edit: Now I'm back home I think about some things.

Maybe I should have used the 6.3 insted of 5.6 because it was not 40knt blowing but more like 35 knt? Now and then we had a 40 knts gust but they were rare. Changing fin's was maybe not a good idea afterwards, and now knowing wat the conditions would be, I should have sticked to the 25, I have the idea that in my last two runs it would have been faster, because the wind was not stronger than in the best part of my session. On the other hand, without testing, how would I know how they behave?

A part of me is pleased with the PR, wich I call "a salami-PR" because I seem to improve my best speed with verry thin slices, but the other part thinks it could have been faster.

Great day at La Franqui but no PB's but 5th best session ever - nice people - nice sun- life is sweet

 made 39+ Max but still no 40 knot run yet --  next time

First test of MXR 54 and MXR fin UFO 26 G10 ,

board is very fast and easy to use ,

Thanks Martin to give me the board

First test of new fins MxR UFO wide 30° G11 24 cm with new MxR 54 Rockstar

Very good balance with this two new concept , great job Martin and Ron for your boards

it works very well in all condition and it is very easy to go fast .

The new step concept is a great improvement in stability and confort , so the result is an easier performance .    

A late posting as I lost the afternoon session off my gps after a crash and the unit seized up :( I did get some better times including a 38.97 peak but can't win'um all !!!

We had a good night on the approach road to Ian and Pauls campsite after an evening pinching their campsite Wi-Fi :) but Mag woke at six and looked out the van window and saw the most amazing red sky sunrise so we packed everything quickly away and with Mag still in bed drove a mile up the road to the wooden jetty on La Franqui beach – sadly we had just missed the best but it was still pretty good!!! I took some pics, we did our exercises on the beach and after a leisurely breakfast we walked to the mile maker I put in the other day as no windsurfers had arrived and the wind was light!!! When Pete, Ian and Paul arrived it was the usual discussion about board/sail size and how much wind we were going to get??? Then Martin van Meurs turned up :) showing off his great range of stepped boards and fins saying that the strong wind was turning up in the afternoon. As I had already taken my longboard out twice on the La Franqui speedstrip and seemed to have reached my maximum at 32kts it was time for the shortboard and with no 6.4m (sadly died!!!) it was 5.2 or 5.8 on the speedboard. I went for the bigger sail as the wind hadn’t arrived with Pete and Ian out with 6.3 on Falcon 80’s, but the wind filled in enough to get the speedboard going but nothing too brilliant for me:( With I both on speedboards and 5.6/5.8 flying and having a real dual:) my speeds increased to 38kts as the wind filled in, Mag and Leisel even braved being sandblasted to take some pics and I even managed a up and down mile – not brilliant as the wind was very up and down and the course was very shallow in places:( After lunch in the strongest wind of the day got a 38.97kt max just after Pete improved his to over 39 kts:) – sadly I might have lost this as my gps seized up after a couple of crashes !!! I can’t even turn it off and am waiting for the battery to run down – including one crash when I was trying Paul’s weight jacket for the first time and split it!!!!!!!!! :( Sorry Paul. Then later on the wind became very up and down and too broad for me making the course very bumpy at times:( and I didn’t get the chance for another mile and the 40 kt ave is still a little way off but it was great fun trying:) So after a group shot we headed to our favourite spot to stay the night at Peyriac-de-Mer and then away from the coast and home in a week after a fantastic 90 days in France – hope to come back in Sept/Nov:)

Fanatic Falcon Speed with a Tushingham 5.8 x-15

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