The forecast looks dodgy, but will the pit or Inverloch work at all on 7m freeride gear? I've heard that Sandy Point is usually windier than forecasts. A beginning teabagger on a 12m kite is also coming. What can we expect?
Cheers.

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McMahon said...
What can we expect?
Cheers.

You'll have an ok sail on Monday. He'll probably end up in a tree.

Thats good enough for me!

Heading down tomorrow - expecting it to be 5m or 5.7m freestyle weather according to Windguru (apply the modification that Matt put up)

Planning first trip to Sandy tomorrow. What is the 'no-no' bottom line wind direction at Sandy ? (no records to beat, just steep, painful but still exiting learning curve).
Thanks.

looks dodgy for the 6hr round trip..........

unless you surf !

...unless it's fun. The question was on the bottom line. Going.

5.5 - 6.5 was the go today, from about 2pm onwards. tomorrow probably Green Point about 11am.

The wind was crappy Saturday, boozed on at Fish Creek. Left at Midday Sunday. Didn't get the board wet apart from the crazy rain we had to drive through. Still not a bad road trip

Wind arrived 1pm Sunday, dropped out for 30 minutes in the afternoon, but all up a great day at Sandy Point - about 4 hours on a 5.7.

On Monday afternoon we discovered that the suggestion that "any wind works at Sany Point" is not true!

No wind doesn't work at all.

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dioma said...

Planning first trip to Sandy tomorrow. What is the 'no-no' bottom line wind direction at Sandy ? (no records to beat, just steep, painful but still exiting learning curve).
Thanks.

For reference, E, ESE, ENE, W to SW all work well at Sandy Point. The moment a westerly strays north of west it goes gusty as hell though.

i sailed with my 5.4 alpha all day yesterday at rye and a few times i was over powered, cant believe you guys had no wind at the pit

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Flipper11 said...

i sailed with my 5.4 alpha all day yesterday at rye and a few times i was over powered, cant believe you guys had no wind at the pit

It was gale force yesterday a Lysterfield, absolutely epic!

At times it was quiet and it went down to 10 kts but mostly 25 -35 kts with some 40+ gusts!

jermalden,
what time were you there??? We must have just missed you.

We sailed there from about 10 am til 2 pm and it was windy but not 40 kts!
More like 15-20 with the odd 25 kt gust...it also backed off to absolutely nothing at one stage there, so I spent a nice 15 minutes bobbing around with not enough of a puff to waterstart.
It did seem to hold its direction quite well tho'

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drift said...

jermalden,
what time were you there??? We must have just missed you.

We sailed there from about 10 am til 2 pm and it was windy but not 40 kts!
More like 15-20 with the odd 25 kt gust...it also backed off to absolutely nothing at one stage there, so I spent a nice 15 minutes bobbing around with not enough of a puff to waterstart.
It did seem to hold its direction quite well tho'

We rocked up at 2.30 there were two sailors out there when we got there Yellow and a blue sail, but they packed up when the wind dropped off at around 3.30 ish.

Massive front came through and ripped the place up from 5ish . We got pelted with hail at one stage and I was so low that my back was shreding the water.

There were full on waves.

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We got pelted with hail at one stage....

Told you I wasn't throwing rocks at you!

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K Dog said...

We got pelted with hail at one stage....

Told you I wasn't throwing rocks at you!

Wish we took some footage when that massive front came through, but i had the camera and was in the middle of the lake praying to Jesus and kissing my A$$ goodbye at the time!

sunday was pretty sick in the waves across from the inlet at sandy point. solid 20-25 knots and a small fun swell. probably the most crowded i have ever seen it.

That is awesome!!!!!!!!

guys thats just too cruel to rub in...... even nice up the face action

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drift said...

jermalden,
what time were you there??? We must have just missed you.

We sailed there from about 10 am til 2 pm and it was windy but not 40 kts!
More like 15-20 with the odd 25 kt gust...it also backed off to absolutely nothing at one stage there, so I spent a nice 15 minutes bobbing around with not enough of a puff to waterstart.
It did seem to hold its direction quite well tho'

Sailed at Lake Bunnings... Almost at the end of the chaos - never, ever (and I mean it - ever) moving house again. Or dropping a sprog in the middle of the season. Terrible timing on my wife's part. What you upto Sunday Mick?

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Al McLeod said...

sunday was pretty sick in the waves across from the inlet at sandy point. solid 20-25 knots and a small fun swell. probably the most crowded i have ever seen it.

Great pics!! I think - sadly - while the guy was there taking pics i was in the rinse cycle getting, well, rinse cycled! Still, bit like hitting just one perfect 7 iron brings you back for another whole round of golf, the two pearler multi-turn waves i caught will keep me coming back there for some time to come. Awesome session to be out there...

BTW: I dont know whether it was Joel or another person, but the suggestion of the name "longarms" for that spot seems on the money.

Sick Aerials Al! I'd heard they were looking good!

Was a great session, definitely worth the drive down. So good I hear some of you didn't leave until 9:30

Hopefully we can get more of the same this weekend!

thanks fletch.
friday and saturday are definitely going to be good down there again. hopefully they will finally have the comp in some decent conditions.