Jez and I are off to Marion early, hope to see anyone else there as well.

Cheers Russ

Russ and I went down, it was actually to windy and blowing fairly easterly. Maria Island is saying 34 to 51 Back home now so will wait and see what the arvo brings

Local sailing today.
Dorans for off shore speed.
Front beach cremorne could actually be good if it is super windy and ne
Dont know if there is any swell, so goats if east

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Jezstrt said...

Russ and I went down, it was actually to windy and blowing fairly easterly. Maria Island is saying 34 to 51 Back home now so will wait and see what the arvo brings

WTF Too windy!

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buzzy said...

Jezstrt said...

Russ and I went down, it was actually to windy and blowing fairly easterly. Maria Island is saying 34 to 51 Back home now so will wait and see what the arvo brings

WTF Too windy!

Well could have sailed but blowing on shore and really close chop in 30+ knots = not that enjoyable on slalom kit! Ka's would have stood up not sure about s..

You could have explored the area. There are a couple of other spots

Too windy?? we risked our lives in god knows how many knots at Stanley yesterday

I'm guttered with our stupid call
Came home to heaps of jobs Sim is very happy and thinks we made a stupid call as well.


Rule number one never leave the wind!

Stuff all wind at the moment but the rain has stopped, blue sky coming out so wind could come back this arvo

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Kazza said...

Too windy?? we risked our lives in god knows how many knots at Stanley yesterday

Hahahahaha it would have been just as windy if not windier than Stanley flat water is easy kazza

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buzzy said...

You could have explored the area. There are a couple of other spots

Yer we should have, the horizontal rain didn't help the motivation to explore oh well getting heaps done at home! wind 'should' come in later

I got there at 6am and had a little nap in the car as it looked rather unappealing. Rigged a 5.8m and headed out just as Jeremy & Russ got there. Unfortunately the wind had gone up about 5 knots whilst I was rigging so I got belted but did manage to sail back to the car park (okay, there was some body dragging involved ).

Rigged a 4.7 and then had an absolute blast. The waves were smooth and it was a fun ride. Unfortunately I had to be back in Hobart by 9am so only got about twenty minutes of sailing in. A pretty poor driving/sailing ratio :-(.

The new board (Isonic 94) is brilliant, way easier to sail. I can't wait to see how fast I can take it in good conditions.

I'm bad at judging wind, but I reckon it was about 30 knots gusting to 35 with some lulls at 25knots. I could hold on to the 5.8, the waterstarts were just a bit exhausting. The 4.7 was powered up in the gusts and just enough to get planing in the lulls.

Klaas I reckon Russ and Jez had a little nap in the van while you were sailing

sitting here in the rain a few hours ago, now it's sunny and breezy, and i notice marion is 20 kt N, crazy 40 knots in the morning! says swinging offshore NW to W again but i'm going to wander out there, maybe carlton on the way back if it does go W.

moving from FNQ to sail at south coast NSW i thought the weather was more dynamic, but down here it's hour by hour?!

Had a nice little sail on the sandbar today.

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