Big winds in Melbourne this week and for tomorrows downwinder we are meeting at Sandy at 10-10.30am.

DJ

Wednesday 2 October
Gale warning for Wednesday for Port Phillip
Winds
Northwesterly 20 to 25 knots tending north to northwesterly 25 to 35 knots during the morning, then turning westerly 20 to 30 knots during the day before decreasing to 15 to 25 knots by the evening.
Seas
1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing below 1.5 metres during the afternoon.
Weather
The chance of thunderstorms during the evening. Possible hail at night.

Definitely will be there

We got a constant 35-45 knots out there today ..

Awesome downwinder.. and I was on the new shape 14' Glide..

Thanks to RPS (it's their demo board)

One word.. Wow!

DJ

DavidJohn said...
We got a constant 35-45 knots out there today ..

Awesome downwinder.. and I was on the new shape 14' Glide..

Thanks to RPS (it's their demo board)

One word.. Wow!

DJ

Mmhh that is interesting, done a few DW runs last few days and had a mate on a new glide and he struggled with it, he is even talking about getting rid of it already.

DavidJohn said..

We got a constant 35-45 knots out there today ..

Awesome downwinder.. and I was on the new shape 14' Glide..

Thanks to RPS (it's their demo board)

One word.. Wow!

DJ

Let us hear more! - I've done 3 downwinds on the new 2014 Glide but never had more than 20knot ave windspeed so still need to see how it goes in the bigger stuff....so far I'm really impressed with how easy it is in terms of stability and steering whilst on a run. You have to ride this board with the nose just above water at all times. This means keeping nose up by stepping back at the right time. Like most dwd boards it does not like engaging the nose as this causes a slowing down which means you may miss the run - having said that, you can engage nose without it throwing you off - so it's easy enough to save a penetrating nose, it's just not that efficient to run with the nose under water. The bigger the runs get the easier it gets as you can catch runs from standing quite far back - but really need to try in 35knots+ - hence the first comment!!!

Towny said..Mmhh that is interesting, done a few DW runs last few days and had a mate on a new glide and he struggled with it, he is even talking about getting rid of it already.

What's his number?

Towny said..

foamballer said...

Towny said..Mmhh that is interesting, done a few DW runs last few days and had a mate on a new glide and he struggled with it, he is even talking about getting rid of it already.

What's his number?

He will read this and if he wants it gone I'm sure he will think of you
Just not sure if he sold his old glide

Well I've got a almost new 2013 glide I can swap

I will be interested to see DJ's clip of your run this morning. I only had time to do Green Point to Rickets at 11:30am - was a fun run with some pretty good runners. I see from PTWoody that it was gusting to 50 knots at 11:00am, so no wonder I needed help getting my board off the car in the carpark at Green Point)