PassingWind said...

If the tides out heaps far here is a solution. Strap your board to your back and if you got a landboard, just landboard out there. Leave your bopard on the beach and then bobs your uncle. Do 2k's in five minutes.

Don't forget to attach a marker float to your landboard so you can find it after the tide comes in

Fossil

Tom83 said...

I can't get up that way until the weekend - looks like adelaide will be dead on sat so might give it a go - what do you recon????

Yeah all ya can do is give it a shot dude, hopefully it keeps on blowing .

coastflyer said...

This is a number that I use regularly as part of my job. It is the auto weather station at Edinbourgh Air Force base and is probaly the closest WX station to PT Parham. The wind recorded on it is always stronger than the ATIS at Adelaide airport, so may be of some help.
Call 0883932417

no good to far away coastflyer

Stormboy said...

So tomorrow at 4.30pm tide will be approx 1.3m so should be fine? ie not too much walking through crab turds? From the tide chart on here there are higher tides of 2.45m, forgive my ignorance but that is vertical height right? Anyway hope its on and lk fwd 2 tomorrow arvos sess

With a 1.3m you have to walk approx 500m, before you can get on the board.......a 2.4m is right in to the boat ramp and gets choppy, a bit like milang.

Here's another attempt at trying to predict the wind at Pazza. It shows that the sea surface wind will be up to 10 knots stronger than Adelaide coastal seabreezes.
www.bom.gov.au/marine/wind.shtml
Introduction
The wind forecasts are generated automatically by computer models and updated twice a day at around 6 am and 6 pm EST. The 'Day 1' and 'Day 2' wind forecast is from the Bureau of Meteorology's high resolution weather forecast model. The 'Days 3 - 7' wind forecasts are based on data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Forecast wind
The forecast wind speed and direction is presented on a national colour coded map that can be clicked to link to state and territory views and northern and southern area maps for the larger states. Views are also available for the capital city local waters areas. The wind speed in knots, is indicated by the colours shown in the legend, as well as by the arrow size. The arrow sizes show the relative wind speed for each map, with the longest length scaled to represent the highest wind speed. Wind direction is indicated by the arrow direction. The start of the arrow is the direction that the wind is blowing from. The arrow point shows the direction the wind is blowing to. For example an arrow pointing upwards is blowing from the South to the North.

The Day 1 and Day 2 wind forecast maps can be animated by using the controls above the image. Animation controls enable play, stop, step forward, step back and animation speed buttons, as well as a button that can be dragged with your mouse, to control the sequence. These maps are in 3 hourly intervals.

Wind forecast maps from Day 3, up to 7 days ahead are available in 6 hourly intervals. The animation feature is not available for the 3 to 7 day forecast due to the large number of images. Use the 'Earlier' or 'Later' buttons, or the time selection menu to step through the forecast.
The forecast time and date is below the maps, as well as the time of issue and the next routine forecast update. Australian Eastern Standard Time (EST) is used for the national map. State and territory maps use local times.

Me and a mate are also heading up there leaving at about 4;30 from largs. Hopefully will be sweet.

HAd an awesome session there today, a little bit on and off, but more frequently 'on'. Water is clear, shallow and in some places dead flat. Awesome spot, lets make sure we are good to the locals.

Hey guys, sounds like you are all having fun at paz. Please also remember to check the restricted zone notice board at the boat ramp which notifies when other zones including parham are out of bounds, don't want the army shooting at anyone. I think the army has video cameras on the restricted zone poles so be careful guys.
cheers

coastflyer said...

I live on the south side of town, and Pt Parham is quite a long drive, especially in traffic around 1500 in the arvo. I have been heading down south to the Goolwa channel or Murray mouth where the winds are always stronger than metro waters.
Here is the Hindmarsh Island wind recording from yesterday for example. It was going off and a pleasant 26 degrees. One day though, I hope to kite Pazza, it looks worth the trip.

Date/Time
CDT Temp App
Temp Dew
Point Rel
Hum Delta-T Wind Press
QNH Press
MSL Rain
since 9 am
Dir Speed Gust Speed Gust
°C °C °C % °C km/h knots hPa hPa mm
12/11:30pm 21.9 22.0 15.5 67 3.8 SW 9 11 5 6 1019.8 - 0.0
12/10:30pm 22.0 21.2 12.8 56 5.2 WNW 9 11 5 6 1019.9 - 0.0
12/09:30pm 22.8 22.2 13.6 56 5.3 W 9 13 5 7 1020.0 - 0.0
12/09:00pm 22.9 21.9 13.4 55 5.5 W 11 - 6 - - 1019.8 0.0
12/08:30pm 22.4 22.1 14.3 60 4.7 WSW 9 13 5 7 1019.9 - 0.0
12/07:30pm 22.7 21.6 14.3 59 4.9 WSW 13 15 7 8 1019.6 - 0.0
12/06:30pm 23.8 22.4 15.6 60 4.9 SW 17 20 9 11 1019.4 - 0.0
12/06:00pm 24.1 22.5 15.9 60 5.0 SW 19 - 10 - - 1019.4 -
12/05:30pm 24.2 22.1 16.2 61 4.9 SSW 22 26 12 14 1019.3 - 0.0
12/04:30pm 25.8 24.2 16.4 56 5.8 SW 20 26 11 14 1018.9 - 0.0
12/03:30pm 26.4 25.0 16.9 56 5.9 SSW 20 28 11 15 1019.0 - 0.0
12/03:00pm 26.1 23.8 16.6 55 5.9 SSW 24 - 13 - - 1019.1 0.0
12/02:30pm 26.8 25.0 17.0 55 6.1 SW 22 32 12 17 1019.0 - 0.0
12/01:35pm 29.7 26.2 15.4 42 8.8 SSW 28 56 15 30 1018.0 - 0.0
12/01:30pm 30.1 27.9 16.9 45 8.3 SSW 24 28 13 15 1018.2 - 0.0
12/12:30pm 30.6 29.4 16.2 41 9.0 SW 17 20 9 11 1018.7 - 0.0
12/12:00pm 32.3 31.1 17.0 40 9.7 SW 19 - 10 - - 1018.7 -
12/11:54am 32.4 31.1 16.7 39 9.9 SW 19 22 10 12 1018.7 - 0.0
12/11:30am 37.5 35.3 5.5 14 17.5 NNW 6 13 3 7 1018.9 - 0.0
12/10:30am 35.8 32.3 8.6 19 15.5 N 17 20 9 11 1019.3 - 0.0
12/09:30am 31.5 29.8 12.3 31 11.3 N 13 19 7 10 1019

I've only been down a couple of times - when ever I look on seabreeze hindmarsh island look to be about the same as here - are these readings from a different station? what are the days that it works best?

Who has the top tip for sat and sunday - PAZ VS MOUTH
I really want to get a solid kite in

think we might try and hold out for the local session that is going to happen

so who is hitting paz this weekend? Ill be going sunday , saturday is out for me Ive got james wedding to go to. Forcast looks ok .

sunday arvo is the day i reakon,
sat loks good but the easterly might carry up the gulf a bit, might have to go to thompsons beach...
know knows time will tell!

Yeah sounds good, at 2:30pm the tide will be at over 1.2m and on it's way in... high tide is at around 5pm, up at almost 1.8m.. so will be plenty of water then, by sunset it will be back to around 1m and on the way down... so watch out for the rocks near the channel marker if still out at sunset!
Lets hope that wind is gonna do the right thing!

Hope you have a great day on Saturday James... see ya on Sunday maybe Tim, that's if your hangover is not excessive! lol

Cheers, Dave

what time are you guys going on saturday? I've never been there can someone put the location so I can fire up the gps...

I went Friday late afternoon. Wind was ok for crusin around on the 12m with skim board.

Tide was going out strongest wind was close to shore.

Only 3 kites there last night.

Not a Bad place. 1.1 hrs from glenelg Goolwa is closer for me

Hope we get some good winds over the weekend.