Sailed at Auckland, Bucklands Beach
Rated a 8 of 10

Wind from the SW (knots)

lulls: 15

average: 12

gusts: 17

Board: Starboard Carve 99 2004 Wood
Sail: NP Saber 6.2 2005
Fin: Drake Freeride 280
Suit: XCel 4/3 infinity x-zip.
Air Temperature: 14 C

Good time, especially first 45 minutes or so. After that the wind decreased to subplaning speed. Made almost all my jibes. Not near to carving, but did some carving exercises I saw on Peter Hart's video, just try with the foot to steer to board. All alone there actually, but this amount of wind wasn't forecast and probably most who wanted to windsurf did it yesterday when there was a lot more wind.

I can say that I start to feel quite comfortable on my Carve 99. And especially that session on the 80 liter wave board helped, how strange that may sound. Just gave me some more feedback how to steer the board.