Jelly Fish

[ong]

was windsurfing today. spotted many jellyfish near the beach. there were more at the beach near the second breakwater from
the monsoon pipe in the bedok jetty direction.

[Sukhdev Singh]

many years ago during a penang open, i must say this would have been probably 1987 or thereabouts we had an interesting experience. during the marathon, we ran into swarms of sea snakes and i mean swarms. you would see them everywhere you looked. being on round bottomed hulls made it all the more interesting. in his usual oblivious fashion GW (38mph) was clowning around on his board till we started yelling "george, snakes!" and he goes "where" and then sees them. never seen anyone get back on a board so fast. so take the jellyfish as incentive not to fall in. also depends on what type of jellyfish, some of them are great for throwing at each other (not much stings) and some will land you in hospital

[zincopper]

Was the round hulled board you used to sail a Davidson?

[sukhdev]

no it was a made in penang thing called the Layang (GW, Denis, etc will remember it). incredibly fast in light winds and a nightmare in anything over 15 knots. it was semi hollow and leaked like a sieve. anybody got any pictures of it anywhere?

[Denis Wee]

Wasn't the Layang made by Leong Soon? It was a horrible thing to sail downwind.

[sukhdev]

designed by Peter Moore, built by one young indian guy (forget his name, mani?) and yes leong soon was in there too. light wind downwind was ok but i used to get sick of it in anything like a decent breeze and sometimes end up sitting on with feet in the water to do a dead downwind run. ugh. horrible. but nothing would ever beat it in less than 10 knots upwind, even now i think.