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Who Needs The Paeroas?

Ok, today looks even better. But it doesn't look like launch is going to be crowded.

Plan to get to launch by 1115 but end up arriving at 1130.

Jeff is there and ready to go, conditions look good, and he was away.

Rigging up and launching I'm airborne by Noon.

Initially I'm getting some good lifts, but nothing that drags me screaming to cloudbase. Jeff is ranging far and wide but not getting a lot higher.

Then the seabreeze arrives pinning me to the ridge, while Jeff finally claws his way up and over the back.

The breeze kills what thermals were left and I assume my usual position and head for the Bomb-out paddock, while Jeff runs to Warkworth, then is pushed North over the Dome and is finally drilled by the NE seabreeze, still a respectable 20km+ flight.
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