ok guys,

even though we look to be getting short changed with the wind. when is everyone hitting the water.

i'm on the water sunday. can't do saturday. i am feeling pretty cheated with that. forecast now shows 5-10 knots. so if that is true then i am going for distance on the formula kit. so who's got lightwind gear. fitz, borrow something from pete...

anyway, wind may change. this is what the BOM have to say.

Note: The forecasts are based on movement of low currently near Rundle Island.
These forecasts will be closely monitored and updated if the low changes
intensity or expected movement. Caution is advised during the outlook period as
this situation is very difficult to forecast correctly.

can you believe that

get up to cairns and green island for the long weekend..

www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/qld2.asp

mad if you dont!!!!

it all green at green!!!

wello for saturday?

hard to say haggar.

normally during a westerly at high tide it is very bumpy on the western side of the bank. but at low tide on a westerly it can be flattish there, depends on wind strength.

however. when the tide is high, if the water on the eastern side of the bank is deep enough that is very very flat. it's only 40cm deep in parts too.

wello can be unpredictable. take all the gear you got. i do cause you just never know.

I'm most likely going to the bar at Bulcock beach on Saturday morning. Should be cranking from 8am. Looking forward to a couple of hours of B&J on incoming tide. Nothing like seeing the spray flying of the top of the waves on an offshore breeze. I'll also sail down Briby a little and check to see if suitable for speed.

man i got so ripped off with the forecast this weekend.....

Maximus , I'm right to get out after all. Will head up with wave and mid sized gear and get into that bar. I'll take the Gps and do few runs at Bribie, after seeing what it is like.

I went to go this arvo but missed the wind. DaMMMMMMM. I'll try 1st thing 2morrow.

what a mongrel
Scuse ignorance,(only used mine twice) didn't it record on the NAVi at same time either?? I thought it did both at same time

OK before anyone else asks YES I did try downloading from the NAVI and there's nothing there.

And when I turn the unit on now it records quite happily. So something's either wiped the card between two hours ago and now, or space aliens came down and swapped my card with a blank one (albeit with a GPS_DATA folder on it).

It's always worked fine before, I seem to remember seeing the "Blank card found" and "New file" dialog boxes popping up when I turned it on this morning, and I definitely have a max of 26.80 knots and 90k's on the trip meter.

So I'm going to chalk it up to space aliens I guess.

I'd still like to hit something

bugga ben... that sucks.... oops, sorry, i don't mean we should bugger ben.... gotta be carefull, all this potential date inspections has got me concerned.

sorry to hear you lost data mate. did you format the card when you first got it?

that's a bummer too haggar.

so are we all hitting the water tomorrow. i am keen, so if anyone else gets on the water at will count.

Thinking back to yesterday, and without my crankypants headache face on, I think the sequence of events was something like this:

1) Turn unit on.
2) Try to reset the max speed in the aquapack, but couldn't because the thumb switch was too fiddly (and aquapack too tight)
3) Take unit out of aquapack.
4) Reset max speed
5) Put unit back in aquapack.

*** DANGER Will Robinson! ****

As I was putting it back in, the aquapack pushed the thumb switch up, and possibly in. When the unit was being inserted, all the options were flashing up on the screen.
Possibly what happened was that the unit selected "Format Card" as I was putting the NAVI into the pack.

6) Seal up and go sailing.


The moral of the story is:
1) Reset your max speed at home when you download data.
2) If something weird happens on shore, turn the unit off, then back on. It's better to have two files that you have to stitch together, than no file

Gentlemen, we have green arrows forecast for Sunday. What is our team plan

windwanderers?

ok. cancel that. just had a look at the forecasts

big heads up for WindWanderers on sun 24th at bribie island off the southern tip.

wild times ahead.