Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark
Watch stints, handovers and sleep that holds up
How-to guides, tips and tricks
Watch stints, handovers and sleep that holds up
Late winter clarity, and how to use it in August.
Float rigs and berley for winter garfish
Point the nose off the wind, then sheet in.
Sail back on a close reach and stop, not run.
Finesse lure tactics for winter estuaries
Plan and execute drift dives in any current
Your guide to Bunbury coastal weather
Hop a plastic over the lip on a run-out tide.
Stay upwind on your kiteboard
Small early pumps beat one big desperate heave.
Gear, signals and pacing for diving after dark
Stop slapping the wake. Load the new rail early.
Pressure systems steer every wind shift
Read the water and link open-ocean bumps
Spot the gutters and you have found the fish
Timing and nose push: slip under clean every time
Reef before you need to, not after
Highs, lows, fronts and isobars made simple
Clear your ears early to dive pain-free
Reduce sail before you wish you had
Midships spring docking, phase by phase.
Time the foam, not the face, off the sand.
Spend bottom-turn speed to get back to the pocket.
Foil through the wind first, flip the wing last.
A 200-year-old scale still wins
Body, board and wing: getting upwind on a foil
Find gutters, holes and rips to catch more
Skip the uphaul and step onto a moving board
A preventer is not a vang. Know the difference.
Where the wind scale came from
Carve on the rail first, flip the sail last.
Find sandbars, read peaks and use the channel
Three points of contact beat balance every time
Compress, look, and drive off the rail
Estimate wind by sea and shore
Your first steps on a paddleboard, made easy
Step back, unweight the nose, let the board spin.
The kite lifts you; standing up comes last.
Bung, cords, jackets, then the key.
Position better, catch more waves at any break
Carve wide, stay low, ride out still flying.
A field guide to coastal clouds and what they mean
Stay locked in when the wind is up
Get up and stay level without the bow hunting.
Nail buoyancy and transform your diving
Build speed, then lift onto the foil
When and how to reef before the wind wins
Step back, sink the tail, spin on the spot
Why 5 m for 3 minutes ends every dive properly
Clip the lanyard on before the engine fires.
Swap edges through the flat, not with a flick.
Why your arms stay tired - and how to fix it
Cold-season setup, wetsuit choice, and wind reads
Carve a gybe without dropping off the foil
Relax, cover up, and let the wave pass
Stall a sloop safely when the wind builds
Park the boat at sea in any conditions
The kite skill that saves sessions and riders
Cross on slack or the first of the flood.
Nearby |
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Merimbula (Coastal), NSW |
4 kn WSW |
14° | ||
Bega, NSW |
Calm |
11° | ||
Green Cape, NSW |
14 kn WNW |
15° | ||
Windiest in Australia |
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Wilsons Promontory, VIC |
31 kn SW |
11° | ||
Most Windless in Australia |
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Halls Creek, WA |
Calm |
25° | ||
Hottest in Australia |
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Telfer, WA |
8 kn S |
33° | ||
Coldest in Australia |
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Mount Wellington, TAS |
27 kn SW |
-3° | ||
Wettest in Australia |
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Mount Read, TAS |
25.0 mm | |||
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