On Saturday, Round 1 of the VicWavesailng Series kicked off at Point Impossible. It was an arctic blast with a super cold west/south westerly and a nice 3 to 4 foot swell. They challenging conditions with a strong side sweep and the odd rogue monster set rolling through. Given the bitterly cold conditions for this time of year and rain deluge the night before, we got a good turn out with 8 people competing and around 20 people free sailing in total.

 The aim of the day was to get as much water time as possible as most of us literally hadn’t sailed for 6 months (me!), and facing a 25 knot cold gusty westerly in biggish surf conditions with soft un-windsurfed hands and unconditioned muscles takes a bit of getting used to again.

The day got underway with an hour long freesailing session followed by a 30 minute expression session. The four top sailors from the expression session then proceeded to battle it out in a 15 minute final which was judged on the best 3 waves and 1 jump. Evan, James, Alastair, Hudson and Hoc (who retired with a migraine) fought it out in a very impressive final which saw James winning with two massive pushloops (and he only needed to do one!) and solid long waverides down to the river mouth. Then on queue, just as everything had finished and it was time for me to get out for a bit more of a sail, the wind decided to drop to absolutely nothing leaving me and a few unlucky others facing a 300m swim in!

Thanks to everyone who braved the weather conditions and came down for a sail.  Hope to see you at the next event which will be the SHQ long weekend at Sandy Point. - DB