Hey guys who are the regular sailor's at primbee and will anyone else be joining me on the lake this weekend? The forecast looks good for high winds turning westerly. Hope this is right
Its a bit early to get an accurate wind forecast for the weekend. A useful exercise is to take a record of the Seabreeze graphs and see how they change over time.
Thanks for the reply. I have seen big forecasts disappear in the past but I remain ever the optimist and hope that this one comes to fruition. Hope you can make it if it does.
Does anyone sail from tallawarra power station anymore. It was very popular in the eighties but I haven't seen anyone there recently? .
if the forecast holds ill prob be there as botany sucks in west / nw
Anyone know what the weed / water depth is like atm?
The weed at primbee is more or less only the bottom dwelling slimy type. The water level changes more than ever before now that the entrance is open to the tidal influence so you might have to walk away out to get enough depth at low tide.1 foot of water here makes a huge difference. With 3 feet of water in a westerly the surface is still quite flat and free of weed.
Lake level was super low on Sunday. About 10m of mud to walk across before you even hit water at Primbee. Very flat though so probably only represents 10-15 cm of actual depth. Couldn't see any obstacles in the water which is comforting!!
Sailed Kanahooka today and pleasing to say the jellyfish seem to have disappeared.
Putting 2 and 2 together, the jellyfish have swum out to sea in such huge quantities that they have caused the lake level to drop due to their missing volume!!
Well it's 10.30 on Saturday and not a breath of wind at Dapto. I guess nothing has changed in forecasting over the past 20 years that's a shame. I thought with all the technology these days things would be better. although we're going to be forced to use the NBN now and that's a step backward cos it's twice as slow as the copper network and uses twice as much power. If you're looking forward to getting it connected don't.
Where do you sail from at sanctuary point? I haven't been there for 24 year's and probably won't recognize the place now.
basically hasn't changed in that time , we sail from the boatramp that looks over to wrights beach the n/east is usually 5knts stronger than you guys get in Wollongong , if you want some flat-water speed sailing bring a weed fin