Lets go sailing - Seacliff goes off!

Sorry for the delay in posting, seems Facebook has taken the mantle from blogging for the moment, plus I have been so bloody busy! Here's a clip from yesterdays session at Seacliff......who says windsurfing is dead in Australia? 26 people out at one stage....some great sailors


Seacliff - Sensational Saturday from Dave Lane on Vimeo.

Robe - Australia Day weekend

Here's a little vid from out last weekend, Robe rocks!

Not a lot of wind for the whole weekend, but a great group of people, some generous gifts (prizes) from our local shops (Onboard and Glascraft), all in all a great weekend.


Robe Australia Day Long weekend from Dave Lane on Vimeo.

A bit of Lano randomness

These are images from my mobile, its a groovy nokia with a half decent camera on it, heres a few of my faves.......

The first two are the lovely Amy O'hanlon, who has moved to our Perth office, her desk got 'punked' on her last day, nice one Stuart and Jodie who spent hours wrapping everything on her desk.

A nice, no wind day, at Sellicks beach - note cool trailer

Phoebe spraying Trevor with water after school

My beloved Adelaide United (geez I wish they got to play Manchester United in the club world cup last month!)

Adelaide Oval game on Saturday night against Sydney United - another win to us 2-0

Why do people light flares, this was the Asian Champions League final, we lost to Gamba Osaka 5-0 on aggregate :( , we must have looked like thugs to the rest of Asia - makes me mad

Played a bit of golf, Royal Adelaide if you dont mind!

Ryan teeing of on the 12th

Nice lockers, 'get me a towel geeves'

My sister, Fiona and her son Lachie came to stay, we had gelato at Norwood that afternoon. Was great to meet her new man Nathan, lovely chap, hope we can see more of them this year

More Gelati anyone? Illy at North Adelaide......num num num

Lambretta - sweet, Quadraphenia eat your heart out, was half hoping Paul Weller would be the pilot of this baby

And last but not least, another bit of super market madness in Blackwood Coles. Click on this pic to see how hilarious someone has been with one of the kiddy etch-a-sketch's,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Final post of the year, just wanted to say have a great holiday break and a Happy New Year everyone.

We are currently on a few weeks holiday, enjoying family and friends, windsurfing heaps, eating and drinking way too much and catching up on lots of sleep.

We had a good friend of ours come and stay with us for a few days this week, Megan. She is currently working in Far North Queensland, so its not often we see her. It has been so good having her here, sharing her love of shoes and her new camera.

Megan and Phoebe.

Here's me serenading her, goo goo ga joo!

Christmas this year was at Kyms mum and dads down at Inman Valley, just out of Victor Harbour, we had a beautiful lunch of Turkey and roasted veggies, topped off with my dads now legendary Pavlova, twas delicious! All this was topped off by a late afternoon walk along the reef at Encounter Bay. One of the best christmas' ever. I did really well in the present department. Kym got me a 430 skinny mast with a skinny Chinook base, so excited! I also got Guitar Hero from Kyms family, if you havent played this yet, get onto it, its a hoot!

Christmas Day walk at Encounter Bay

'Livin on a prayer!!!!!!!!' Guitar Hero getting another work out

Johndo.
Da Pav

Heres the girls singing some random Madonna song, not sure Abbey knows the words :) very cute though,

Have a great New years everyone!

TC Fun - Lano goes old school

Susie just sent this image through, how stylish of me?

South Australian Social Windsurfers Family Day

West Lakes family day..

Well last Sunday we had the inaugural SA Social Windsurfing club family day, wind wasnt forecast, so we were expecting to rock up at West Lakes (not the best spot in the world, but very family friendly), so we were hoping really for a few newbies and a float around the lake. Well, it blew 15 knots all day, at one time we had 15 sailors on the lake, three or four new comers and a heap of kids. Russ cooked up a BBQ, Pete from ONBOARD supplied boards and sails to try, so did the GLASCRAFT guys, was good to see Leeanne out as well with her kids.

Bubs Senior gets some action in the TC Runner......only board to get planning all day

The crowd going wild......

Phoebe seemed to be having fun, think she was more interested in jelly fish than sailing though.

After 5 hours of family fun we made the call to hit the wind and waves at Semaphore, it looked windy, but not quite enough, so we made the call to hit Seacliff for a seabreeze session. Great 20-25 knot SW wind for three hours, both Kym and I had a great sail. I have been sailing flat water a bit much lately, so sailing on the smaller kit was challenging to say the least. I had Kyms 93 JP FSW (07) and my new 5.7 Firefly. Steve and Kym rocked up, Susie and Dean were already out, as well as a few other crew, so a good group to sail with

I got a few nice turns in, nearly made some gybes on the small board (aim for end of summer, gybe small kit), also popped a few little jumps, destroyed a 25cm fin on the rocks and had a smile on my face the whole time :)

Cant wait for this weekend, good SW conditions set to kick in come Saturday!

Kym hits the reef!

Well Saturday turned out to be a great day out, Southerly, highish tide and a little wave on the mid coast, Seaford reef to be exact. We set up with about 8 other fanatics, Kym rigged up her trusty 4.4 Core, then proceeded to hit the waves. Cant see us doing to many more flat sessions after this one, she is totally hooked on the waves now (I had better lift my game)

U-Turns is about 25 minutes south of Adelaide, just south of Noarlunga. This is great for us, as its close to home, nothing better than being in the water 30 minutes after leaving home. We sail all over the state, mainly on the south coast, which means a one hour drive, so mid coast is looking like a good option this year.

Crew heading out

Dean Ryles showing us all how its done....fark he is a good sailor!

The view from Seaford back towards Southport / Noarlunga, breath taking coast line.