Anyone else on the coast get one? A few of us scored Birubi today. Patchy at times but at least there was 1-2ft of a wave breaking compared to everywhere else. On 4.5-4.7 size sails, couple of sharks sighted, couple of smacks to be had, all good.

no didnt get one today but was hoping for sunday what yous think

went windfishing on my stand up. Caught a 3kg salmon.

Had fun in the 5-30 knot winds with my 5.0.

haha windfishing sounds good

I think here in the Gong even measuring the surf size in mm would be optimistic. Have also never seen such a cyclic/gusty westerly before...so ****e. Gave it a miss.

Ain't it risky sailing off the beach in a westerly? Anything breaks and its a long way to the next piece of land. When i lived in the gong and went out in the waves I wouldn't sail off the beach in a strong westerly. The waves were usually pretty non existant anyway.

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Mobydisc said...

Ain't it risky sailing off the beach in a westerly? Anything breaks and its a long way to the next piece of land. When i lived in the gong and went out in the waves I wouldn't sail off the beach in a strong westerly. The waves were usually pretty non existant anyway.

Pretty safe at the beaches that wrap around enough for a westerly to be cross-shore.
ie. East Corrimal, Port Kembla, Warilla, etc.

On the big board it feels safe, had my wave gear rigged so it should be able to handle cruising. Also I would just paddle in without the sail if everything went totally wrong. I sailed from warilla to bass point and back. Caught the fish about 100 metres from the beach when I was getting back.