The Boat Photoshoot Day and back to testing

This morning, we woke up to head to the Red Rhino for a lil' photoshoot - sorry, you don't get to see pictures yet - but Dave will probably post some video outtakes soon. Let's just say we're stoked with the outcome, and you'll see it in the mag ;-)

After that, it was back to Kanaha for - MORE board testing! The last few boards of the fleet arrived today, and, fortunately, they were big'uns... it was a little on the lighter side. However - it was still Maui - which means, even at my 'heavyweight' size (OK, I'm probably even bigger than the average heavyweight) I was planing on ~90 liters boards and a 5.5 with wind averaging about 20 mph. At home in Florida, I'd probably be on 5.7 or probably 6.2, and a 115 liter board. Even so, the wind lightened up, and I hung on the beach while the flyweights planed away. Most impressive was Brit guester Chris "Spider-monkey" Peacock - who blasted by 5 slogging sailors, planed through a nice inside duck jibe, and kept blasting back out to the reef.