Those sails don't need much out haul do they, you'll be right!

Yep, your boom went boooom!!

Respect for that

Great video - looks damn challenging conditions for slalom gear.

samurais !!! respect !!!

Looks great. Just one thing tho-- I wanted to see how many did or did not complete the gybe round that inshore marker. But the shot got edited every single time!

Mate
That's a surf beach on a windy day, not choppy.
Your surf must fricking huge on a calm day if that's choppy
Looks fun but

Impressive

I will never again say that Botany was choppy...

Ha ha looks awesome!

That's the cool sort of racing! Love the footage!


We used to race in that sort of setting 20 years ago, but in a side shore downwind slalom format. I used to love it as I was light so not fast, but in that stuff, good gybes and starts were key. We did running beach starts and the best kit seemed to be fast bump and jump stuff. One of our mates showed up with his full carbon, hard to gybe DSB and fully cammed race sail, sure he got to the first mark in the lead but never survived the lumpy outside gybe marks!

The fun bit was gybing the inside marks in the breaking surf!

Thanks for the post and vid!

Here comes the full report movie, 16 minutes that should also brush up your Japanese.