The Speed Freaks 2020 Contest




Rules:

Post your own GoPro or GPS speed screenshots that happen in 2020.
All GPSs will get rounded down to the whole mph to stay in line with GoPros.
Funny GoPro speedometers will get scrutinized (like ready to go to 300mph from weird satellite lock)
Windsurfing gear - anything goes.
Locations - you rip it, you post it.

Feel free to post gear used, location, conditions, etc.

I will update the leaderboard graph as speed screenshots come in. May the gust and flat water be with you.

I'll get things started. Here's something for you guys to shoot for / take the doors off.

31 mph. New record for my 108 FSW. Deceptively fast. 15 mm pads at the heels. V bottom. Giving it Buick Roadmaster with Cush-Glide over chop. Its low nose might help with speed.

Sail: 5.8 Ezzy Tiger
Board: 108 RRD FSW
Fin: 36 cm MFC Freewave 2019 Square Tip(might be faster)
Location: Clinton Lake, IL, (Main pool)
Date: 5/08/20

Post your 2020 speed screenshots. Here's another one from me. New high for 2020 and first time for the 4.7 and 31 cm fin.


Sail: 4.7 Ezzy Tiger
Board: 95 RRD FSW
Fin: 31 cm MFC Freewave
Location: Clinton Lake, IL, (Main pool)
Date: 6/10/20

Ok, i'll post some speed stuff. I use Strava and record the activity using Garmin GPS devices. It shows peak speed. If this doesn't qualify me let me know. I am able to load the garmin files for other speed databases.

This session is probably my mid-west peak speed for 2020 (31.7 knots). www.strava.com/activities/3233337827


Here is my peak speed of 2020 from a session in Hatteras. Peak speed is crazy this day. I love Hatteras. I went plenty fast this day but not sure I hit the speed recorded but it was a crazy day on a 69 liter and a 4.2. Broke a mast from Too much power. (over 40 knots on the day) www.strava.com/activities/3544858796 I personally don't count this one as I think it was mal-function on the data collection somehow.

Dennis Koscielski wrote:

Can't see the speed in your links. I think you have to be logged-in into Strava. Take a screenshot off Strava or Garmin and post it.

Went thru my data for the year. Found the high speed run for mid-west sailing.

Ok, I posted a picture.

This session was on Creve Coeur Lake on Mothers Day. Nasty cold day that I missed most of the wind. Thanks to my wife for letting me go play at the end of the day before dark. She is 100% supportive of my windsurfing mid-life crisis.

Report: Got bored on the 110 liter and 8.4. Not enough wind to power thru the jibes so switched boards. Went out on the Formula Patrick 166 liter with a 54 cm Tectonics fin since wind was still gusting in the 30's plus. Wind range was all over the place as usual for this little lake. It was a Break Through session for me because I finally got over the hump on figuring out formula. It took about 20 painful sessions to get to this point. Today was bliss on the formula and got great speed and more importantly control. So ended up hitting 32.5 knots on the Formula board in one of the down wind runs. Up to this point going downwind on that giant door was filled pretty damn scary. Now it is just fun. Day got ruined though w/ a broken batten and ripped sail. Peak speed was 32.5 knots or 37.4 mph.

So why formula? I quit windsurfing for 15-years and missed all this big gear and sails. I am perplexed by what I missed and trying to conquer it before going onto foil. Long term goal is to get technically better and formula is teaching me to rig carefully as being balanced is key to handling these large sails, booms, fins, boards.

Get yourself on the board, folks. Post a 2020 screenshot.

106L board, 36cm fin, 5.9m2 sail
28 mph

We'll have more folks this fall. And more chances to best our speeds. Join the fun.

Marc / 5.7 Freeride / 120 L RDD / 27 cm fin / Bonaire, Dutch Carribean / March 2020
23.8 knots = 27.4 MPH
Measurement via Garmin GPS watch Vivoactive HR

The board is growing.

New top speed for my 108L FSW. 32 mph.

Sail: 5.8 Ezzy Tiger
Board: 108L RRD FSW
Fin: 36 cm MFC Freewave 2019 (square tip)
Location: Clinton Lake, IL, (Main pool)
Date: 7/10/20