How does a city of 5 million people only manage to get 6 sailors onto Botany Bay in a solid 25 knot sea breeze that blew until 10pm?!

I know a few guys left earlier because the wind hadn't come in (sorry guys, bad decision ), but I still can't believe how few people were out there.

Demographically coffs harbour has 1 windsurfer per 130 square kilometers , 1 in 7777 people ( less waves available per sailor than sydney )

5 out on Wallis lake. We must be punching above our weight

They're all in Gero

Plenty out on Lake Macquarie and Budgy..

They were all stuck in traffic. If you don't make it down there by 2:30 on a weekday it's pretty much all over red rover. You be spending the afternoon in traffic.

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stehsegler said..
They were all stuck in traffic. If you don't make it down there by 2:30 on a weekday it's pretty much all over red rover. You be spending the afternoon in traffic.

Yep, one of the reasons I moved to Jervis bay, otherwise there would have been 7 out

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stehsegler said..
They were all stuck in traffic. If you don't make it down there by 2:30 on a weekday it's pretty much all over red rover. You be spending the afternoon in traffic.

Yep, need to beat the school pick-up rush.

Harrow you'd love coronation beach wa about 100windsurfers out

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stehsegler said..
They were all stuck in traffic. If you don't make it down there by 2:30 on a weekday it's pretty much all over red rover. You be spending the afternoon in traffic.

Yep, need to beat the school pick-up rush.

I think you are forgetting that the traffic from the city is huge in the afternoon. Once they get to the M5 split near Kyeemagh a large part of it has already been done and it can take ages if someone has a crash or its the lead-up to a long weekend.

Coming from the south side you would avoid all of that so may not notice.

Congratulations on a rare sighting of these near extinct species .

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lotofwind said..
Congratulations on a rare sighting of these near extinct species .

28-33 knots at our local today, 2 out of 2 local population of windsurfers out, only 3 out of 50 local population of kiteboarders out. What's going on there?????

Wow, only 2 left there as well, its a shame the numbers are dropping so fast.

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lotofwind said..
Wow, only 2 left there as well, its a shame the numbers are dropping so fast.

Yeah it's really sad. There's been a steady exodus to Maui since the eighties, no waves here due to that natural wonder thing off the coast. But hey, makes it easier to get a park.

It was blowing 28 to 33 knots.Dont write us poleys of yet.maybe there was'nt enough wind for them.

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Harrow said..
How does a city of 5 million people only manage to get 6 sailors onto Botany Bay in a solid 25 knot sea breeze that blew until 10pm?!

But a good percentage of those 5 million wouldn't venture into Botany Bay no matter what because it's deep enough to conceal a shark. Should we count them?

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Orange Whip said..

lotofwind said..
Congratulations on a rare sighting of these near extinct species .

28-33 knots at our local today, 2 out of 2 local population of windsurfers out, only 3 out of 50 local population of kiteboarders out. What's going on there?????

The're doing their hair ,
or ,
color matching .
or ,
getting humor glands removed

When i sail alone ...I'm the fastest man on the water

It's still an awesome sport. Last Wednesday I was derigging and a guy in his sixties thought the sport had died. Amitatly it's not a popular windsurf spot and sailing 2-300m offshore to get into the real breeze, so it's only a longboard and unless they are from sailing background don't see the blasting 25knots 500m offshore in flattish water(depending on tide).
I have a mate and he hadn't sailed for 6-8 months. Rigging up the breeze went from 15 to 25 knots in 10 minutes. As we connected rigs to boards his uj broke. I went out and overpowered with mast bast slidding forward I came back in and sorted tuning for good blast - stoked bra!????????

I will get back out on small boards, just have to add an hour each way for traffic in Auckland, Shakespeare Bay which is 10km as the crowe flies.
Then it will be busy unless you get out before peak times ????????

Only Pat Malone and I out today but that's usually the way anyway

Did you sail electricals greenie?
It was blowing it's ring out at the carpark. A few bombs to

I feel sad sad that Jason had to sail this spot all by himself.

I am noticing with the modern generation they mostly dislike anything to do with manual labor.

Windsurfing is also very much physical,then you add in the time for rigging and de- rigging and it all becomes too 'hard'.

Most prefer techno games whilst sitting on their backside.

Others are sadly simply too out of condition to learn the sport.

Only me and another guy out on Sydney Harbour that I could see.

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It was 15-22 knots on the river today. Forecast was for 30C but it felt a bit cooler.

Very few out at Melville. Perhaps a dozen at most. Car park nearly empty. When I sailed down to Pelican Point only around half a dozen sailing at any one time.

For this time of year that is a large drop off. Did not see a single hydrofoiler and very few kites.

Many in the last year or two have left windsurfing in favour of hydrofoil windsurfing.

And they tend to only venture out when the wind is is 15 knots and lower.

Maybe they have blisters after the weekend

50 + - around Melville on Sunday. Roll on!

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It was 15-22 knots on the river today. Forecast was for 30C but it felt a bit cooler.

Very few out at Melville. Perhaps a dozen at most. Car park nearly empty. When I sailed down to Pelican Point only around half a dozen sailing at any one time.

For this time of year that is a large drop off. Did not see a single hydrofoiler and very few kites.

Many in the last year or two have left windsurfing in favour of hydrofoil windsurfing.

And they tend to only venture out when the wind is is 15 knots and lower.

"hydrofoil windsurfing" is windsurfing. Our fin is just different. We haven't left anything. Most of us are usually on the water more than most windsurfers. We tend to whine less about the wind and get a thrill out of a 10-15 forecast.

We come out when the wind is above 15 knots (often on wave/high wind gear) but it may not be where people are mowing the grass.

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petermac33 said..
It was 15-22 knots on the river today. Forecast was for 30C but it felt a bit cooler.

Very few out at Melville. Perhaps a dozen at most. Car park nearly empty. When I sailed down to Pelican Point only around half a dozen sailing at any one time.

For this time of year that is a large drop off. Did not see a single hydrofoiler and very few kites.

Many in the last year or two have left windsurfing in favour of hydrofoil windsurfing.

And they tend to only venture out when the wind is is 15 knots and lower.

It is Tuesday.