There were a few of us at V.P.

yes i was there!!!! i'm justin. hehe...

hey you scored in the end. the wind kicked in again as i was packing up. i watched you blast back n forth while derigging.

how nice were the conditions, dead flat, blue skies and 15 knots!

Hey Justin, forgotten what it's like to have a sail and envious with all the talk of good SE wind at VP.
Hopefully will be back sometime after Xmas with surgury on my wrist in a weeks time, been a tough month or two waiting. Rheumatoid Arthritis strikes again.....

Will catch up again one day on the water!!
Cheers

i hope it comes good mate. you haven't missed much i know i said that last time i saw you and it's still the case.

Hey Justin,

Yeah the wind picked up for about 1/2 hour after everone went in and I tried your suggestion of pushing on the boom to stop the harness lines falling out on the chop. Worked great, thanks for the tip

Was anybody out there Saturday morning on those 30 knot gusts? Me n a mate were out in the small bay with 'the steps' in manly.... I was holding on for dear life & trying not to break stuff... is it normal to spend ur whole time spilling 90% of the wind out of your sail in those kind of winds or am I 1) too useless for high winds or 2) using the whole sail (6.8)?.

Btw are the forecsts on this site reliable? The last few times they've seemed a bit off ... do they measure from Cape Moretone or something?

Hope to see some of you out on the weekend ... and hoping that forecast for '13-15kn easterly' comes to fruiton!

Tim

a smaller sail probably woulda been the go.

I sailed saturday at the same spot, but after lunch when the wind had dropped off a bit, and I was using a 4.5m sail.

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Hey Justin,

Yeah the wind picked up for about 1/2 hour after everone went in and I tried your suggestion of pushing on the boom to stop the harness lines falling out on the chop. Worked great, thanks for the tip

it's a good method for forcing you to load up the harness lines. i still do it occasionally just to check my stance is working. it's important to make sure you are hiked out when you do it and you only do it for about 10 secs then hold the boom normally. if your harness lines are unhooking because of chop you will need to hike out further in general.

Gestalt, looks like the wind has gone. Whats the better spot down there for light wind days?

depends on wind direction i guess.

i'm looking at where to go tomorrow for an hour session. if it's ESE i'll go to vicki point. if it's NE i'll go to wello.

you could also take a look at redcliffe. ESE blasting from suttons beach down to margate and back parallel with the shore is lots of fun. plenty of small waves and rollers. NE at redcliffe then queens beach north.

actually, make sure you sail redcliffe at some point if you can. it's awesome.

what days are you around mineral?

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Gestalt said...

depends on wind direction i guess.

i'm looking at where to go tomorrow for an hour session. if it's ESE i'll go to vicki point. if it's NE i'll go to wello.

you could also take a look at redcliffe. ESE blasting from suttons beach down to margate and back parallel with the shore is lots of fun. plenty of small waves and rollers. NE at redcliffe then queens beach north.

actually, make sure you sail redcliffe at some point if you can. it's awesome.

Yer Gestalt abit soft and like his sandy beaches but the wind will be better at Wello for sure in a ESE tides really good too at the moment. Wish I could sail

i'd rather drive to redcliffe which ****s on wello in a ESE wind.

lets see.

redcliffe,

excellent wind
real swell,
sand beaches,
plenty of parking,
grass rigging areas,
hot chicks running
clear water

wello eastern side.

good wind
not bad swell
boat ramp access
rocks and shells and mud beach
no parking
dirt rigging
no chicks running
brown water



oh i forgot,

VP,

good wind
dead flat water
sand beaches
grass rigging
plenty of parking
no chix running
7 minutes from home
clearish water

Sailed a light ESE this afternoon. Th water off Redcliffe is pretty dirty atm. A whole week of SE has churned it up. Never could figure out why a NE makes the water clear and SE makes it dirty. Maybe it stirs mud up from the south end of the bay.

Bet it's cleaner than wello though.

If you have time definitely check Redcliffe out. If there's any wind most sailors will at Queens beach at the northern end, but one or two go to Sutton's/Margate beaches. It's very rough no matter what the wind strength, but fun for that. Pity it doesn't look like the wind's going to be there this weekend.

Yer Reddy be good in a ESE as well but VP sucks for wind too many Islands around.
Boat ramp just the way you get to the water, once out it doesn't really matter does it.
Waters only really brown at Wello in a Westerly, SE side can get pretty clear.
Hey Gesty you havnt been on the SE side at wello for a long while have you its all grassed now along the waters edge and you can park the whole way along.

nope haven't for a while. the rain must have made the grass grow.

stopped bothering going there after hitting the reef and nearly taking off my big toe. actually, i have been there since then but i got the ****s with the launch area. must be something to do with growing up on the sunny coast and sailing mooloolaba and caloundra every weekend.


VP does the job for me. sail there alone a lot also. if i lived at wello i'd prob still sail the eastern side but it's not that much better than VP so i don't bother driving over there.

unless of course it's a NE wind and high tide. love wello then. or for that matter a westerly, or a Nor westerly, or a northerly........ hehe....

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Gestalt said...

depends on wind direction i guess.

i'm looking at where to go tomorrow for an hour session. if it's ESE i'll go to vicki point. if it's NE i'll go to wello.

you could also take a look at redcliffe. ESE blasting from suttons beach down to margate and back parallel with the shore is lots of fun. plenty of small waves and rollers. NE at redcliffe then queens beach north.

actually, make sure you sail redcliffe at some point if you can. it's awesome.

Only here for a day, so will try Wello, even for a look if nothing else. Got to leap frog quickly down the Coast now. Spent to much time gawking about in FNQ

well mineral, no wind today,

i'm hoping for a seabreeze tomorrow. wello if there is.

if your down the coast plenty of open beaches to sail. the train's popular and works in a ne wind if you want flat water.