What was it like up there today, i'm on the Gold Coast and it was on and off all day. Is it worth the drive tomorrow?

yeah spill the beans. am keen to sail tomorrow if on.

yep, me too. And Curt is coming as well. Should organize bus tour from Gold Coast.

Its looking like the wind is going to get lighter after 10am

was okay at shearwater from 3pm onward. would consider a trip to vp too :)

Come on Haircut, come with us to VP! I plan to get there about 12pm. Wind looks good and tide as well.

25 knots at Vic pt according to the liters ATM - blowing a gale according to the wife LOL

Yeah that'd be right. Stuck with family weekend out of town. VP my fav place too. Hope u all enjoy....

I stayed on the Goldie today there was plenty of wind and set two new PBs so im happy.

VP was stellar... should have rigged the 4.7

Well it was pretty hard for me on the slalom gear and 6.2 sail. But it was nice to meet few locals and Marty.
Cheers guys, looking forward to sail with you soon again.

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GeoGeo said..

Well it was pretty hard for me on the slalom gear and 6.2 sail. But it was nice to meet few locals and Marty.
Cheers guys, looking forward to sail with you soon again.

Thanks George. Great to meet you too. I'm glad I went for the Bump and Jump gear with the 5.5m sail instead of the slalom gear like yourself. Some of those bullets coming through were pretty full on. It was far more comfortable in the rough stuff than the slalom board although I couldn't beat your 2sec peak....

Gestalt - I'm not sure who you were out there sorry. I'll have to introduce myself next time.

I'll put together a clip from today and post it up from the GoPro on my head.
Cheers
Marty

Hi guys - I was there for a couple of hours - you could probably tell I was the one getting smashed on the big board, the monster (pacifico) with Ka 5.3m sail. I must admit to having a couple of nice runs early. You guys looked to be having a ball - good to see.
Cheers
Morgan

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Dwbh said..

Hi guys - I was there for a couple of hours - you could probably tell I was the one getting smashed on the big board, the monster (pacifico) with Ka 5.3m sail. I must admit to having a couple of nice runs early. You guys looked to be having a ball - good to see.
Cheers
Morgan

Hey mate everyone was getting a bit smashed out there that day, i had a massive catapult and not didnt make a single gybe at the northern end. I think I saw you doing some good waterstarts though

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Dwbh said..

Hi guys - I was there for a couple of hours - you could probably tell I was the one getting smashed on the big board, the monster (pacifico) with Ka 5.3m sail. I must admit to having a couple of nice runs early. You guys looked to be having a ball - good to see.
Cheers
Morgan

Hey mate everyone was getting a bit smashed out there that day, i had a massive catapult and not didnt make a single gybe at the northern end. I think I saw you doing some good waterstarts though

I figured I would have a go at some Beach/Water starts after all I spent a lot of time in the water lol. You guys looked to getting some nice pace on. Nice - good to watch, keen to get a bit of that myself.

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Dwbh said..

tilldark said..

Dwbh said..

Hi guys - I was there for a couple of hours - you could probably tell I was the one getting smashed on the big board, the monster (pacifico) with Ka 5.3m sail. I must admit to having a couple of nice runs early. You guys looked to be having a ball - good to see.
Cheers
Morgan

Hey mate everyone was getting a bit smashed out there that day, i had a massive catapult and not didnt make a single gybe at the northern end. I think I saw you doing some good waterstarts though

I figured I would have a go at some Beach/Water starts after all I spent a lot of time in the water lol. You guys looked to getting some nice pace on. Nice - good to watch, keen to get a bit of that myself.

Mate I'd say you keep up all this progress you've made and you wont be very far away at all. Great bunch at Vic point and nice safe conditions to learn in (especially if your wearing boots)

Quick video from last Sunday at Victoria Point. It's really only the first run as there was water on the lens for the rest of the time which made the footage unwatchable. Sorry guys as I thought there might be more footage of some others.
Cheers
Marty

cool vid, jinxy will be happy he made it into the vid. shows the conditions well.


yeah it was very choppy down the eastern end. made sticking the gybes real hard. i had to really bend the knees and stacked a lot of them getting airborn off those rollers halfway through the gybe.

Nice video Martin

Nice sailing Marty hopefully you will teach me to gybe like that.
Here is a dodgy video from last Sunday also.

-high-fbc

Community service

I like it and lucky you have someone to video you guys.

Here is another of mine.

Cheers
Marty

great videos guys

Really cool Marty! Yip my wife took that footage If we get some more wind in a weekend she'll get some of all of us out there

Whats this - the VP Video show....... Here's an old one!!

I've watched yours many times Greg which is what made me finally come out there to try the spot in a SE'er as it looked like fun. It's a great spot for learners and can be reasonably flat in the SW corner on high tide. As long as you can miss the low tide is a great place.

Thanks everyone for sharing.
Cheers
Marty

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MartinF2 said..

I've watched yours many times Greg which is what made me finally come out there to try the spot in a SE'er as it looked like fun. It's a great spot for learners and can be reasonably flat in the SW corner on high tide. As long as you can miss the low tide is a great place.

Thanks everyone for sharing.
Cheers
Marty

It's good at low tide, very flat water over by the banks, bumps in the middle, pretty flat in the south west shallows.