Hi Justin - long way from home!!! Phil SWR (not fast Phil!) sails down there and reckons Trial Bay works in northerlies and southerlies - I will pm his phone number in case he's around and you want to sms him - he's a top guy and knows the area well
Happy New Year

Hi Dave, thanks for that. We're going around down nsw for a week or so.

Happy new year to you too!

We had lunch in McLean yesterday and left just before the mini tornado storm thingy was hitting the town

Heading south from where you are? Woolgoolga Back beach, past the treatment works - just look for the kites floating above the trees , I think it could be on right now .. Lucky you

how did you go in the Hastings river , if your still around sunday monday is looking nice

Haircut said..
Then had a look at harrington. What an awesome llooking spot, but how do you access the sandbar and waves without walking down the breakwall?

We usually sail Harrington in a dead southerly for the longest runs in the flat water against the sand bank, but I have also done it twice in a NE as well.

Access: Rig gear on the grass beside the Air/Sea Rescue building. You will find some totem poles near the rock wall to the right of the building as you look out to sea, walk over to them and look over the rock wall and you will see a rocky but flatter bottom and shallow water. VERY carefully climb down the wall with your board and place your board upside-down on the rocks at the bottom, and now even more carefully climb down the wall and fly your sail all the way down as you make the decent. Connect together on the flatish rock spot at the bottom and tack out to the sand bar and start the fun. Need booties to avoid oyster cuts if you enter and exit this way. If you hate sailing in boots like me, when you get to the sand bar, take them off and throw them on the sand bar, then put them back on before you come in.

Some have walked all the way down the wall with all their gear and rigged on the sandbar where the bar meets the rocks. Far too much walking for me, and rigging on sand in a stiff breeze is no good...... to quote Anakin: "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere".....

Glenn Bolton posted a vid on SB of Mark and I sailing there a few years ago in about a 20kn southerly. I have reposted it below so you can get a feel for how close you can sail to the bank and how smooth the water is on a southerly. On a NE you sail on the south western side of the same sand bank, and from that bank you can also sail out into the river mouth to the waves if you like. Take care, the current does move very quick on the run out tide as it squeezes it's way out.

Crowdy Bay is also fun (about 10 more minutes drive to the coast from Harrington). A NE is dead onshore, which is great fun on a fast waveboard or freestyle board hitting the steep shore break at pace.

What are the chances of a ne sail at sw rocks tomorrow (Friday?) We only need about 15 real knots.

Thanks Phil