or maybe Glovie is just full of sh!t.

...but he does rip though

Looks like some NWr's forcast for Fri and Sunday down here in the Gong. Don't typically get out much in these directions. Have sailed PKembla in W/SW and that was sweet but NW = no go there. I'm thinking maybe southern end of Bellambi or a bit south of Fairy Meadow there; Beach really curves around and faces NWish towards the North Beach end. Ideas? I suppose the 'Dang might work too, that wall must be hitting the water by now though :|

Anyone get out today? I went out at Fairy Meadow and the only way to really describe it is 0-nuclear. I was either stuck with no wind and couldn't catch a wave or stuck in 40kts which made bottom turning interesting. The gust I came in on must have been 45kts. The water was just getting chopped up and thrown everywhere, the whole board/rig was just flapping/airborne and I was hanging on for dear life. If I let go of the damn thing I swear it would have ended up at the lighthouse. Lucky I came in too because it suddenly went way West, I probably would have been on a one way ticket to NZ. What a crap sail :(

Edit: Just looked at the Bellambi AWS and when I was out there was a gust recorded at 39-62kts. No wonder it felt like the world was exploding.

Well I had a 4.1 up so lol at the 5m :o Waves must have been a bit bigger down there, probably chest high at most up North. I considered going down there probably should have, it's a far better spot in that direction. It was okay where I was while it was N but as it swung N/NW, NW (way cross off) the break gets sheltered a bit by the dunes.

And yeah that wall :( Will it at all be sailable once it's finsihed? Maybe a bank will form up off it's northern side? Guess it will be pretty high :(

I went out at Pittwater on the other side of Palm Beach. Been sailing there for over 20 years now and I don't think I have EVER seen the kind of conditions that were happening out there. At one stage I was taking a breather in waist deep water and I was witnessing small eddies of wind lifting plumes of water and then throwing them down on us in sheets. It was amazing to watch. It was also getting plain dangerous out there so I decided one more run was the order of the day and time to pack up. Typically though that was the one run that I got catapulted probably the most violently I have ever been in 23 years of windsurfing. After being picked up off the water by what felt like one of those 62knot gusts you were talking about qwerty I got slammed and thrown so hard I did not know which was up. I was twisted on my harness line and still hooked in as a result. When I effectively came to I discovered i had a very sore head from it hitting my mast or boom or both for that matter and I was now standing in the middle of the centre panel of a now dead 4.5m sail. I also had a lovely gash in my right arm from where it had rubbed across my harness lines. All in all not too bad a result I guess after hitting my head as hard as I did.
Soooo, anyone got a 4.5m freeride sail they wanna sell cheaply????

Qwerty & Whyner, what time were you at Windang? I went pass this way mid arvo looking for a place to sailed but looked really offshore.
I was down at Gerroa for the week end. ** hey I knew I should have text the local crazies to be in da know where/when to go .

yeah I pop by a bit later..went by Warila beach (really offshore there) to look at Shellharbour from a distance (didn't know there was a secret spot ther though) but couldn't see anyone out so left disappointed. Anyway will call next time.