Hey Qwerty the southerly came through like freight train 50-60 knots. Whyner & I got smashed by it right on dark at the dang.Y do they always come at night???

50knots+ = big fast stacks. Had a beauty on the lagoon coming in. Travelling at about 1000km/h caught rail and got thumped.

actually saw you stack it. I was haning out on the other side of the lagoon (near the surf club) waiting for the change all day... when it finally arrived at 7:45 it looked pretty gnarly. 50 knts. against 2 meters of surf with no one else in sight and next to no one on the beach... decided to give it a miss untill I saw duno and whyner upwind only 10 minutes later... by the time I went around the bay to the lagoon it was too late to rig up... damn!

I think the wind actually was around 60knts where it squeezed passed the island. I was standing on the rocks near the lagoon watching the guys getting hammered and nearly got blown off as well.

They did indeed do a couple of runs on the flat water in the lagoon. First I saw Donk getting slammed by his sail in a monster gust then whymer got nicely flattened... It would have been insane around 10pm as the wind dropped down to around 25-30knts.... if only there was some light.

PS: New Years Eve wasn't bad down at Shoalhaven Heads... was out on a 4.7 fully powered up... while not perfect there where some nice waves around and only a few guys out...

Where were you CC?
Last week Friday (23rd) head high 25 knots, Sunday(Xmas), Monday, Tuesday - over head high 20 knots, Friday, Saturday (NYE), Sunday.

I wouldn't mind more "total fizzers" like that.

Pity about last Wednesday/Thursday though. Still got a southerly sail in.

CC, note that I said Friday the 23rd was head high. Not last Friday.
Although they were breaking over my head last Friday when I was slammed into the sandbank.
The Heads session was a great way to finish the year.
Hope we get wind this weekend.

yep. plenty of power.
sailed for about 4 hours and got about 100000 waves.

Leski, Sunday could be awesome. Graph looks spot on. Just need to do an anti-rain dance. But hopefully it will have gone by then.

hang on! 100000 waves in 4 hours?? let's make few calculations at 7s period waves , 4 hours would only give...hmmmm wait a sec...4 hours =4x60x60=14400 seconds...divide by 7... 2057.1waves!!!!!
hey WHAT IS GOING ON!!!! are you trying to bull** us???hmmm?
unless you are talking each time you cross a wave goin out...so hang on..if you travellin at 20knots with waves coming towards you ...7sec period...ohhh f*ck this is too hard.
ME THINK THEN after all these highly complicated calculs that ya're not tellllin da true truth!

Leski, too much thinking and not enough sailing!

Anyway I wasn't far off. I was very fast. I was also plugged into the Matrix.

I was taking it pretty easy that day.

We don't eat cereals. We catch live birds with our bare hands and eat them on the spot, feathers and all.

As the saying goes, "if you can catch a bird, you can catch a wave".

Gerroa went off today!!! 5.0 and 72lt all day, and there were waves half mast sometimes. Just had to have a bit of a gloat bout how good it was now Im goin to go to bed cos im so buggered!!!
Cant wait till next time