thursday 29th nov

[rexi]

Decided to use this light wind day to practice some fundamentals that i´ve never checked out. I have been sailing nothing but sinkers since I learned how to waterstart some long time ago. Now I´ve had a 100L freestyle board for a little over a year and It really has provided me with a ton of sailable days. Today I worked on the helitack a trick i´ve only tried in powered conditions and with little success. First tries were horrible but I slowly improved and after about an hour my hit rate was probably around 50%. I wasn´t expecting too have lots of fun today and thought of it more as a training day for days with more wind but I really enjoyed myself. I will try to go out more often in light winds to practice on different stuff, will probably pay of sooner then later.

[rod]

In sub zero temps? ! ?

[rexi]

Well I try to stick to sailing above the 0c mark and most sessions are between 0-4c during winter, but I find that going a little below zero can also be ok for about an hour or so.

Thanks for your blog Rod, motivated me to go for my first loop attempt!

[Arf]

Well done Rexi, Iceland has got to be a bit cooler than here (if the name means anything).

50% is a good result for a first day of helitacks!