I'm thinking of heading up to Shelly Point Tuesday could be worth a trip, do you think there's enough swell or am I dreaming.

Tuesday 28 January
Winds: Northerly 15 to 25 knots increasing to 20 to 30 knots in the early afternoon then decreasing to 20 to 25 knots in the evening.
Seas1.5 to 2.5 metres.
1st Swell: Northeasterly around 1 metre, increasing to 1.5 metres around midday.
2nd Swell: Southerly below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore by early evening

I would be keen to take a look at Shelly ,could we get lucky with swell and wind two trips in row

Ant, can you give me a call when you get here?

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Iceman said..

Ant, can you give me a call when you get here?

I'll ring you in the morning Iceman the forecast still looks pretty good not sure whether Damo and Fluro are coming they will no doubt need to call a committee meeting to decide whether they should think about it then they'll call an annual general meeting to decide whether they could have potentially made the wrong or right decision depending on what decision they came to but all that is very confusing so we need a process to decrease the complexity of decision making.................................... maybe I'm a dumb bastard but I just look at the forecast and if it's good I go

The big W ....................................

Only two words to say:
1. Epic

Three out of three for the road warrior , how big were the waves?

2. Potential

3. Load of ....

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Kazza said..

3. Load of ....

Yeah Kaz you describe it better than I.................. 6hrs driving no swell very gusty off shore one of the worst sails I've had for a while my apologies to Iceman I tried to convince him it was epic

After my rather embarrassing and hopeless efforts it was good to see someone at least got a bit of a ride. We will do it again one day. As a side note, I had a rather long swim in with my gear after having trouble getting going after my first ride out, as mentioned on another thread, some extra floatation is a good idea as well as being some protection for the ribs.