(machine translated in 2023) Left late at work, a lot of wind predicted, but eventually a setback. Wind was too north for the Grevelingendam, so the wind is always gusty. Well today it was completely bad, 10 minutes wind force 6 then 20 minutes wind force 2. So you can't do anything with that. 7.5 rigged in the hope of sailing between showers, and to test the GTX 7.5 with the Gaastra Freerace 75% mast. Well that mast doesn't help anything, works just like my Ultimate Race. So the problem is probably in cambers. If the pressure on the cambers is too high even with the original mast, then something is not right there. Rigging the weather was hell, too little downhaul so the cambers don't rotate, anymore, breaks my string, eventually the sail rotates anyway. And then it sails well, but you don't have trimrange anymore. Sail is already trimmed over max. In the gusts the GTX could only just be kept, in the bay I could sail with it, but certainly not outside, just before and after the shower it was nice to sail. But for the rest, bobbing.

Grevelingendam

15:00 1 hour Wind: N/NW 8/25 kts
Board: HTS Super Fast M - Hurricane SRA 40cm
Sail: Gaastra GTX 7.5 - Gaastra Ignition 75 490cm - Arrows Ultimate Race 190-240
  (machine translated in 2023) Also with the Gaastra mast, the sail only rotates with more than max trim. But once sailing it runs nicely, a bit very direct and stiff, but a lot of control.