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Next week's foreacast and bizarro behaviour

Created by KenHo KenHo  > 9 months ago, 16 Apr 2010
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KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

16 Apr 2010 10:12pm
I've come to realise something. Seabreeze is like a work roster for me, it seems.
Green arrows mean I'm working.
Yellow arrows, mean I'd like to think I can get time off, but probably won't. You can actually tell what happened by looking at the wind readings. Yellows that turn green mean I got too busy to leave. Yellows that turn red mean that patients cancelled, and I got to go home.
Red arrows indicate when I'm not working.
Anyone else ever notice that Monday is consistently the windiest day of the week ?? And get driven totally nuts by the fact ?

I think it's a conspiracy.....................bloody Illuminati !!
sonic
sonic

QLD

756 posts

18 Apr 2010 9:06am
i have noticed 7 days out they often give you hope so you keep opening the page and looking at their sponsors adverts only to slowly be disappointed as the days pass by.
Richiefish
Richiefish

QLD

5612 posts

18 Apr 2010 9:29am
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KenHo said...

I've come to realise something. Seabreeze is like a work roster for me, it seems.
Green arrows mean I'm working.
Yellow arrows, mean I'd like to think I can get time off, but probably won't. You can actually tell what happened by looking at the wind readings. Yellows that turn green mean I got too busy to leave. Yellows that turn red mean that patients cancelled, and I got to go home.
Red arrows indicate when I'm not working.
Anyone else ever notice that Monday is consistently the windiest day of the week ?? And get driven totally nuts by the fact ?

I think it's a conspiracy.....................bloody Illuminati !!


reverse the colours ????
KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

18 Apr 2010 11:50am
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sonic said...

i have noticed 7 days out they often give you hope so you keep opening the page and looking at their sponsors adverts only to slowly be disappointed as the days pass by.


Yeah, I've noticed that too, now you mention it.
I never pay attention to ads, so I hadn't made the connection.

KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

20 Apr 2010 4:12pm
And next Monday has a big forecast now too. A familiar pattern emerging.
Haircut
Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

20 Apr 2010 5:35pm

THIS IS THE BESTEST APRIL EVER!!
swoosh
swoosh

QLD

1929 posts

20 Apr 2010 7:24pm
my skate demands... MORE WIND PLZ
KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

20 Apr 2010 9:39pm
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Haircut said...


THIS IS THE BESTEST APRIL EVER!!


Yeah, it's been good, but if there was a medal for "Avoiding Wind", I'd be getting it.
Seems every day there is good wind, I'm working.
Oh well...................

And since my job at Tweed has turned to wet pus, I'm going away for 2 weeks work. MIght get a sail at Elliott Hds this weekend though cos I'm going to Gin Gin. Bet it drops out.
Gestalt
Gestalt

QLD

14722 posts

20 Apr 2010 10:32pm
it's been alright but to be honest this year from xmas through has been crap on the whole.

worst year i can remember

we haven't had any good hybrid cyclones, no east coast lows, yada yada yada

huey is a big fat poo head!

fingers crossed we get some westerlies this winter, cause over the last few seasons they sucked as well.

ikw777
ikw777

QLD

2995 posts

20 Apr 2010 10:56pm
Hmm, It's been pretty bad the last two months. Then again the beginning of the season was great. I've sailed 41 times so far this season against only 29 last season.

Don't know why I still can't gybe tho.
KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

21 Apr 2010 8:30am
Well, I was trying to be agreeable, but I have not had as many sails as I would have liked.
Just seem to make the wrong call, though going to Bundaberg a few weeks back was a good one. I think it's the best weekend they have had.
Never mind, it's more than I had for a few years before that, and I have all my gear sorted now, so I'm happy about that and ready for next spring.
KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

21 Apr 2010 8:36am
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ikw777 said...

Hmm, It's been pretty bad the last two months. Then again the beginning of the season was great. I've sailed 41 times so far this season against only 29 last season.

Don't know why I still can't gybe tho.



Have you made it the focus of a few sessions ??
When I went to BBG, my primary goal was to resurrect my gybing skillz.
I was much happier with my gybes after that.

ikw777
ikw777

QLD

2995 posts

21 Apr 2010 2:04pm
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Have you made it the focus of a few sessions ??



Yeah. I'm not as bad as I make out (though others I sail with might have a different opinion!). Just can't get it perfect and reliable every time.
KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

21 Apr 2010 6:09pm
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ikw777 said...



Have you made it the focus of a few sessions ??



Yeah. I'm not as bad as I make out (though others I sail with might have a different opinion!). Just can't get it perfect and reliable every time.



Well join the club there. I have my days. The worst thing for gybing is running out of wind. It just destroys technique. Easy to gybe in plenty of wind, esp with smaller sails.


swoosh
swoosh

QLD

1929 posts

21 Apr 2010 6:52pm
Best thing i ever did for my gybes was to sail on one tack just long enough to get upwind. Just means that instead of doing maybe 20 gybes a session you do 100+. Another thing is to tack one side and gybe the other, really easy to stay upwind and you can stay upwind doing only 100m runs and get heaps of tacks and gybes in.

But I reckon if you get to a point where you just keep messing them up, then stop and do something else.



KenHo
KenHo

NSW

1353 posts

21 Apr 2010 8:58pm
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swoosh said...

Best thing i ever did for my gybes was to sail on one tack just long enough to get upwind. Just means that instead of doing maybe 20 gybes a session you do 100+. Another thing is to tack one side and gybe the other, really easy to stay upwind and you can stay upwind doing only 100m runs and get heaps of tacks and gybes in.

But I reckon if you get to a point where you just keep messing them up, then stop and do something else.






That's exactly what I did at Elliott Hds. Gybed every 50m for a half hour at one stage.
Can't tack but, for love nor money.

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