Got there @ 1500 on Saturday & launched just inside entrance; looked pretty crappy from shore (usually does as is so far offshore) but 3 hour session was GREAT; easterly @ 20 knots (starboard tack waveriding), sailing the bar from Ozone upwind to Point Smythe and all the way back again; perfect cross / off, glassy faces (apart from over the channel (outflowing tide)) awesome sections to hit on the R handers upwind and the L handers near Ozone were sooooo fast, cross - (very) offshore (smooth) and a couple of hundred metres long. Not real big but heaps of fun (bigger sets head high; perfect for me). Unreal speed run @ the entrance for when tired @ the end of the session. Sunday's westerley then sothwesterly was just as good; jumping playground, nice waveriding (port) when westerly. Only 1 problem; no one else out (apart from heaps in the inlet)!!!

Plenty in the inlet, but not overcrowded; mainly off the angling club, pretty choppy there on an easterly (great speed run here on west - southwesterly). There are much better areas there to sail, esp on easterly; Launch off Venus Street for the slicks leeward of the exposed bars (there's now a bar here exposed at all tides) and the awesome boiling glass on the other side @ Point Smythe (tide dependent; also really good here on w-sw where can sail inside or on the surf towards Venus Bay). Even better launch just west of the Kiosk / creek and sail towards the entrance or in the Surf at the entrance.
Cape Paterson is great on a westerly, leeward of the bombie @ the surf beach; surf breaks inside (usually pretty small). I'd love to sail the lovely surf at the channel there on a westerly, and at the western point of the opening of the Safety Beach.
Phillip Island; Woolamai on nw. Cat Bay (Right Point) is the best down-the-line spot I've seen in Vic on a sw; water's just a bit scary black sharky out the back; don't wanna grovel out here too long!!! Kilcunda / Powlett looks promising on an e-se.
I'd love to sail all these spots a lot more; wish more sailed there.

I think the ramps you mention may be on the edge of the channel way out? I've heard of groups sailing out there and right across to the Peninsula (would want to pick the day / have a boat / ski!?) Apparently Flynns Reef (R hander) can be great on a Northerly; would love to try it one day. You're right; so many wasted spots around there!!

I notice there are a few of those "breaking waves in the middle of nowehere" around there, and once they stand up they seem to keep going for ages, imagine all the turns you'd get off one cluster of waves there?! I drove the boat over to the ones near Flinders, and it seems to just be a sandbar, but always wondered what those ones are out in the middle straight off the western side of the island.

by the way, if one sails off Ozone street, does that mean that one does not require sunscreen?

Wave sailing ay Inverloch - Such a pity its not more popular.
Had a great sail there on 25 Jan , in 20 knt side-shore easterly, from Ozone St.
Wind was a little bit patchy at times, but had the right gear for this palce - 6 M sail and 117L Starboard Aero. Great starboard-tack riding, lots of smooth faces and good ramps for top turns.

But lonely!
Easterly in the estuary can be pretty uninspiring - consistent strong wind, but short, awkward chop.

Anyone out there who also hankers to sail the waves rather than the estuary, or already a committed beach sailor??

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That water out there looks very scary to me Haircut! Always worry about what's chasing them seals;

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i used to fish alot from the jettys around the island, especially at night. I was fishing with a fishing friend off cowes pier and he caught a big 7 gill shark. Thats the only toothy shark i've ever seen while living in victoria for 28 years. Everything else i caught were your typical gummy, elephant, or banjo shark.

cheers