Sailed at Auckland, Bucklands Beach
Rated a 7 of 10

Wind from the SW (knots)

lulls: 9

average: 13

gusts: 19

Board: Starboard Carve 99 2004 Wood
Sail: NP Saber 6.2 2005
Fin: Drake Freeride 280
Suit: XCel 4/3 infinity x-zip.

Bought a windmeter, the windspeed I've given should be accurate now :-)

Waterstarting? No problemo. It seems it was mostly the wind. Could waterstart fairly well. My sail still flipped over sometimes, or I fell back in, but was ok most of times. Didn't do a lot of windsurfing as I was still scared. But that means less fun, so perhaps I should just go for it and start windsurfing. Just some waterstarting backward and forward isn't that much fun. And very tiring on the arms.

BTW, I made a quarter jibe with this board. Boy, that will be a struggle I'm afraid. But let me first start with actually windsurfing this board, I just have to trust my waterstart skills now.