This tuesday (30th June) is looking good for a down-winder.. Who's in?

DJ

Forecast for Tuesday
Winds: Northerly 15 to 25 knots increasing to 25 to 35 knots during the morning
then tending northwesterly 20 to 30 knots during the evening. Seas: mainly 1 to
2 metres.

Windy Miller is keen as mustard DJ

If I can stop coughing I'm in! Dave, might be able to convince my daughter to babysit.

Come on Windy, much more fun than windsurfing in a Northerly in Melbourne - did that for the last 20 years, no comparison!!!

Good breeze DJ you might get to use your new life jacket see if you get a short video on some of the runs.

Rob

We have planned a 9.00-9.30 meet at Rickets point (City side of Kiosk) and then plan to head off from St Kilda at 10am sharp.

DJ

Most Epic downwinder I've done for a while. We were getting heaps of runners and many quite big. Taking the late drop on a few!

Bit of East in the wind so we stuck pretty close to shore. Got smashed big time when the front came through in the middle of the day. Jonos new Pene went well, though to be honest you could;ve been out there on a 9 foot board and the wind would still have hurled you.

Any photos or videos???

DavidJohn said...

I saw Oliver fall and his big 11'6" Naish went spinning through the air like a feather....
Maybe I need a Gath helmet for these extreme down-winders.

After copping a fin in the head from my own board once before in two foot surf, I think a garth helmet could be recommended for these things. There were a few times today I felt just as Jonothan said - a cork.

When some of the wild gusts hit I felt quite insane to be out there. I can now understand why people don't take their medication - it was so much fun.