I didn't take pictures this morning, but I placed a patch on the pigfish, got the 5'2" finbox area smoothed out, and filled the voids on Marlon's finboxes. After about 3 hours the epoxy had hardened and I set out to grind down yesterday's and today's work. So I pretty much finished the work required on the pigfish and the 5'2" and I can rotate those back into service. And I'll turn over the last sanding to Marlon for his board. He did say he wants to paint it before placing clear coat on it - it's all his now.
The afternoon snuck up on me and I asked La if she would drop Marlon and I off at the beach. The tide was sitting at around 1.4'. There was an onshore breeze (since the trades have backed off - this was afternoon convection). And the waves were stomach high and fairly consistent. Every 20 minutes or so a chest high set would pull through. For a Monday afternoon, there were a bunch of people in the water. I got some long rides - negotiate the takeoff, line up the section that had the best potential for running. I did have two inexplicable breaches - I was just cruising along and splat - just like that. My last wave was a long runner but I wrenched out two tight back to back turns right before the shore landing - nice feeling. I think I could have done better on the Iwa today - I could have used the extra lift in the flat sections (or at least it would have been a good time to figure out the differences between the HA wing and the low speed lift wing. I've been using the GL180 for several sessions now. I probably should mix things up again.
Marlon was practicing his helicopter takeoffs. He said he landed a few of them, and even rode one wave with the board parallel to the beach.
La had talked to a few people when she first got back to the parking area. They said they had seen the police giving out parking tickets again around 5:15pm, so they only get dropped off now (same as Marlon and I). Nice session!
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