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Yes, about the masts, Gaastra recomend their SDM 75 430 and 460 for the first 4 sails, for the 8,5 they say 460/490, my idea was to just use an extension for the 32cm on the 460 mast, that way I only need two masts, my AL360 Carbon Boom covers all the sails. If I find in the future that the 8,5 is too ”floppy” on the 460 21IMCS mast, I can get the 490 25IMCS.
Damn I am looking forward to getting on the water with this stuff, delivery should be end of Feb….

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Some good advice here from everyone, I have a lot of free time so it often happens that I am on the water for 5-6 hours a day, even this winter I have been out for many 4 hour sessions, without a break. With a big sail range I can always change sails with the conditions so I am always sailing with the right sail to conserve energy, I am hoping these Phantoms are going to be as easy to rig as Gaastra advertise so that I do actually come in and change sail size when the wind changes…still in doubt though…

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As far as what sail I will use on what board is concerned I have not really enough experience to tell , I will just have to try, I haven’t even got the 80 yet, my wife is giving me that for my birthday ”I Think”, God bless her ! I think I will get the the 7,8 and the 8,5 and just be poorer for it!

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Thanks Glenn
Didn’t even know they existed, oooohhh, a new shop….picture me doing the ”Homer Simpson” thought bubble when he thinks of beer…

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Hey Guys
Thanks for the support and efforts.
Like I said, I was probably swimming for about half an hour to get in, at the distance I was from anyone at the time it would be impossible for anyone but me to say if I was anywhere near the beach or not, I still maintain that I did not break the 200m from the shoreline at anytime until after my mastfoot let go.
I did react aggressively (verbally) after the guy said I should rather have drowned than gone ashore amongst his seals.
I am not that bothered by the whole thing, I sail alot in Scandinavia with my family on a yacht and from time to time, unfortunatley, you come across people who are just not that nice.

The opposite can be said for all the nice people I have met since I started windsurfing in Sweden, I got off the water at 16:00 today at Habo !

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Thanks Henryk…

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Well, judging by the way the dude I came into contact with denied what he said to me when the police where there, he probably kept our little chat to himself ! Maybe he does regret it ?

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I didn’t think the seals were threatening, more like curious, I think they always have such naughty facial expressions, they just look like they are upto no good !

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OK boys, for those of you who have not heard, it was actually me that got stuck right at the very tip of Måkläppen and taken away by the cops.

I sail a yacht with my family in the summer so I know how flat it gets there in anything Northerly. I started sailing just from just West of the canal.
It was my second day out after 18 years of no windsurfing. A mate of mine in the States gave me a 2004 Carve 99 and two Neil Pryde sails, it was blowing 10m/s NE so I started sailing up towards Näset, I think you have stay 200m of the beach or something, anyway, made it all the way up towards Näset in about six tacks.
On my last run getting all the way out towards the tip of Näset, still 200 meters out, I felt my board go off balance, looked down and the mast foot was not in the center line anymore. tried to head in as high upwind as I could and about 150 meters of the beach, South of Näset, the bolt that goes into the mast track let go, probably been sitting in my mates garage wet with salty SanFran water over and over again and a galvanic cell kinda thing just ate the bolt where it goes through the big flat plastic washer that rests between the mast foot and the board.
It took me at least half an hour to swim the board and rig in to the shore. There were seals all around me, they came as close as three meters to me and were at least 20 of them.
Once on the shore, I tied my board on top of my sail and ballanced it on my head in the stiff 10m/s breeze and proceeded to walk back to my car.
I tried along the shoreline but it was so muddy and full of reeds that I gave that up, instead, I walked up on dry land and, in the waste deep grass and bushes proceed to walk out, I fell many time on the uneven ground, after the first half an hour I notice an idiot about 100 meters ahead of me, ”spying on me” with his camera or phone or binoculars or something, for the next hour he was there, always 100 meters ahead, no help offered to me, and I was very obviously having a hard time of it.
This is now 2 hours since I started swimming in and I am really exhausted, starting to feel quite dehydrated and weak. Once on the beach I am met by the ”Livräddare” in his Landrover.
”Hey” I smile
”Sure glad to see you! ” thinking he is going to help me out with a lift back to my car…
This is when it gets even better, he proceeds to shit me out from a dizzy height, telling me how much trouble I am in and being a real dick about it too.
I show him the broken bolt and tell him how close I was to actually drowning out there and ask him if I should rather have drowned instead of swimming in amongst his precious seals and he actually tells me yes, he would rather I had drowned ! At this time I lost my temper and told him to ”F…off” and refused to talk to him anymore. He points down the beach and says ”they are waiting for you”.

In the distance I see 2 dark figures who turned out to be cops. We met half way, the arsehole in his Landrover following me along the beach as I still carry my downed equipement.
The cops were cool but when the ”Livradderen” came and joined us I told the cops I didn’t want that idiot anywhere near me, I told them what he had said to get me so angry and he blatantly denied it all, the coward!
He got the same message from me again the cops tried to calm us down a bit and eventually took him off to one side so they could get my story out of me, they took pictures of my broken bolt and were kind enough to give me a lift back to my car so I could drive back to my rig and fetch it.
They also thought the ”Livräddere” was being a dick but could not stop him from ”police anmelding” me. They could take a statement that day or if I wanted a defender, they would have to do it at later date. I decided the defender would come in handy so opted for a later date. About 10 days, without any further contact later I got a letter from the ”åklager”. All was well, he did not think I had had any criminal intentions and had dropped the whole thing.
The cops said they had been looking for me for over an hour when I first met them on the beach and a story I had read in the paper kept flashing in head the rest of the day. A woman had found someone on ”Blocket” selling a bicycle that had been stolen from her, she had been to see it and identified it as hers and called the cops, only to be told that they were to busy to be dealing with stuff like that .

I am not saying the police were wrong here because they were really nice guys, I just don’t get how they can waste their time with these nature lovers and their hatred for anything that is not birdwatching or flower photographing or whatever floats their boat. This was such a clear cut case of ”sjönöd” but even though the police didn’t think it was needed, they still had to go all the way and waste all this time and energy and resources by ”polisanmelding” me.
The ”Livräddre” dude was just such a jerk, he should be so ashamed of himself, driving around like Baywatch and thinking he is such a hero when he was just a little man, out for blood, ”hehe, now I got him, this windsurfer doesn’t know who he is messing with !”
The whole incident just left such a bad taste in my mouth.
A taste that gets even worse everytime I walk across the stones and down the bank and through the mud and grass and god knows what else is in that muddy stuff between the car park and Habo’s water, I actually found a maggot in the velcro on my wetsuit boot the other day ! Then I think about the white sand on those beaches down in Skanör/Falstorbö area and how nice it would be to launch from there, they are deserted for 2/3rds of the year! It is just not fair at all the way they have all this no surfing here and here and here, with no real reason other than some old dudes had a council meeting and decided on it. Sure, Näset has seals, I can get that we should leave them in peace, but the rest of the areas down there are so heavily restricted for nothing, comments welcome here guys ….

@andersbq 716550 wrote:

Jag såg på min frus FB-sida att en av hennes ”vänner”, en fågeltittare irriterade sig över att en vindsurfare klampat omkring på Måkläppen förra vecka, och hämtats in av farbror blå. Men stället ser ju riktigt bra ut för speed, när jag läser regler för setta reservatet så verkar det vara fritt fram från 1 november. Är det någon som rekat denna ankdamm?

Föreskrifter för allmänheten i naturreservatet Måkläppen
Utöver föreskrifter och förbud i andra lagar och författningar är det inom naturreservatet Måkläppen förbjudet att:
med farkost färdas inom området eller i övrigt beträda ön med tillhörande sandrevlar och grunda vattenområden utanför Falsterbohalvöns fastland under tiden 1 februari- 31 oktober

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I am at work in the North Sea on a drilling rig until Tuesday ! We just had a hurricane out here, 80knots and 21 meter swells, batten down the hatches and hold on boys! The rigg was moving up and down, we call it heave, 12 meters! 6 degrees roll and pitch. Our Hull is nearly 40 years old so it not the first storm shes seen..

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Andersbq,
would like to buy some of the fins from you but can’t seem to get a reply from you via pm or email ?

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Hey Kapten K, would love some tips, I have been out of the game for 18 years so I am really quite clueless when it comes to tuning. I drive a Blue V50 with a ”readyheli” sticker on the back window…sail mostly during the week…there gotta be something pretty important going on if there is a SW blowing and I am not there !
How about fins ? I have a 32cm Chamäleon on the 107 ltr Isonic but have yet to buy fins for my 80 ltr Isonic. Was thinking of the 28 Chamäleon and a 28 Duo Weed to see if there was much of a difference and then when I get faster one of those in the 24cm version…

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Thanks for the replies and the cool video !! Think I will get one of the on mast types seeing as though I have two boards.

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@Robin 719149 wrote:

Är al360 så bra som folk verkar tycka? Vad är grejen, styvare än allt annat?

I read this piece below on another forum and the results speak for themselves, the AL360 Carbon was stiffer than the X9 by a quite a bit.

Cut and paste from the other forum:

”German magazine SURF tested the majority of booms currently available on the market. The results below come directly from this test.
Stifness in N/mm measured at 10 and 44 cm extension.
The higher the values, the stiffer the boom is.
All booms tested are in the 180-240 cm range.
Brand, model, price / stifness + 10 cm / stifness + 44

ALU
Aeron OS Slalom � 229/ 32 / 25
Aeron V-Grip � 249/ 31 / 19
AL360 Ergal � 299/ 26 / 22
Gun Expert � 239/ 24 / 19
NP X3 � 230/ 27 / 22
NP X6 hybrid � 449/ 28 / 23
North Sails Gold � 479/ 26 / 21
North Sails Silver � 289/ 22 / 21
Prolimit Assault V-grip� 249/ 31 / 25
Severne Race � 189/ 30 / 24
Unifiber Universal � 109/ 19 / 17
Unifiber RDG � 159/ 18 / 15

CARBON
Gun Select � 489/ 35 / 29
Prolimit RDG Team � 779/ 39 / 27
Gaastra Blue � 749/ 44 / 34
NP X9 � 999/ 46 / 39
AL 360 � 790/ 60 / 49
North Sails Platinum � 1239/ 65 / 60
Severne Enigma � 799/ 71 / 56

As you can see a proper alu boom is nearly as stiff as a cheap carbon boom. The magazine also noted that a hybrid boom with carbon back end doesn’t add any stiffness or added value to the boom except the higher price.”

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OK guys thanks for the tips, I am going ahead with Jester’s recommendations and ordering the Phantoms, 5,7-7,8…my wife doesn’t like him much now !
I also read his GPS advice and ordered a GT31 so I can see how I am getting along, thanks for all your answers and the GPS write up was very well written.