Tasmania Wavesailing Guide

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AI.Dave
AI.Dave
TAS
192 posts
TAS, 192 posts
3 Aug 2026 4:17pm
Because of the influx of foreign sailors flooding onto our shores (3 in the last 5 yrs 🎉), the republic has commissioned a new spot guide.

www.wavesailing.au/

There's about 30 of our well known breaks in it, enough to get you going. Once you start travelling around its not hard to find a wave.

Jens
Jens
WA
349 posts
WA, 349 posts
5 Aug 2026 12:22am
That's a beautiful effort Dave that's going to generate a lot of interest. Does Tassie have a regular season like WA? When's the best time to go?

Cheers Jens
AI.Dave
AI.Dave
TAS
192 posts
TAS, 192 posts
5 Aug 2026 6:50am
Thanks Jens! We sail year round. Summer is probably the best time, Jan to Mar. The last few years we've seen NE patterns which last for days, followed by short sharp SW changes. These favour the east and west coasts. But frontal systems and westerlies come thru at any time of year. The trick for tassie wavesailing is to be mobile, you can usually find somewhere that suits the conditions.
RumChaser
RumChaser
TAS
640 posts
TAS, 640 posts
5 Aug 2026 8:41am
Good work Dave!!! That works really well.
AUS02
AUS02
TAS
2051 posts
TAS, 2051 posts
5 Aug 2026 8:41am
Well done, that's such great guide! 👍
azymuth
azymuth
WA
2213 posts
WA, 2213 posts
5 Aug 2026 7:39am
Awesome guide
Maybe I’m one of the three so especially useful 😀
shaggy696
shaggy696
WA
81 posts
WA, 81 posts
7 Aug 2026 3:52pm
Fantastic guide, hope to use it someday!
AI.Dave
AI.Dave
TAS
192 posts
TAS, 192 posts
7 Aug 2026 7:58pm
awesome!! havent put my personal deets on it but you can get in touch via the insta link if you need intel or want to catch up with locals
AI.Dave
AI.Dave
TAS
192 posts
TAS, 192 posts
8 Aug 2026 12:45pm
Couple of tweaks and photos section added

www.wavesailing.au/photos

AI.Dave
AI.Dave
TAS
192 posts
TAS, 192 posts
1 Oct 2026 1:14pm
Heading over to WA so added the rest of Oz to the guide 😎
www.wavesailing.au/

It's meant to show you what is happening on the day by estimating conditions for a location based on nearby weather data (and in Tassie using terrain data to compensate for the effect of hills/headlands etc)

The obs are from BOM, the wave data is meteo-france 8 day forecast which seems to line up reasonably well with the BOM forecast, at least in open ocean areas


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