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Haircut
Haircut
QLD
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QLD, 6491 posts
4 Dec 2010 2:12pm
obs say 20+ knots eh?

but not a leaf moving on trees here at home, and 15knot ne usually feels like a mini cyclone at my house
claw
claw
SA
59 posts
SA, 59 posts
4 Dec 2010 3:12pm
12 knts at shearwater and sqaully.
Haircut
Haircut
QLD
6491 posts
QLD, 6491 posts
4 Dec 2010 3:24pm
thanks claw.

its windy here now. i was about to head to the SW
raf1200
raf1200
QLD
41 posts
QLD, 41 posts
4 Dec 2010 3:32pm
Tomorrow looks good at the coast, Haircut. Where will all the cool cats be? And where will you be?
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14969 posts
QLD, 14969 posts
4 Dec 2010 6:30pm
how'd you guys get on? i'm down here at the moment and it's windy for 5 minutes then calm.

i hit wello early this morning and got 12-15 knots all to myself on the 6.4m

wind went SE on me which led to a long walk back along the bank
Haircut
Haircut
QLD
6491 posts
QLD, 6491 posts
4 Dec 2010 8:00pm
from the moment i hit the water i had about 30minutes of 15-20knots and then it dropped right off. the nice thing about ene is there's virtually no annoying chop at the SW (even with 15+ wind)

hi Raf - if there's wind before 2pm i'll do KFC, otherwise i'll go back to the shearwater
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14969 posts
QLD, 14969 posts
4 Dec 2010 9:07pm
my inlaws today (live on the goldy) were telling how much wind there's been this year. i couldn't explain to them the pain we've all been feeling.

i'm looking to hit wello again tomorrow to catch the high tide. fingers crossed some wind comes through.
sonic
sonic
QLD
756 posts
QLD, 756 posts
5 Dec 2010 10:19am
my mates keep saying"you must be happy its been windy everyday" those Easterlys feel windy but no guts they need to be 25knts to get 15knts if that makes sense
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14969 posts
QLD, 14969 posts
5 Dec 2010 2:43pm
^ yeah, explaining the difference between 8 knots, 12 knots and 15knots is difficult. to the non windsurfer anything over 5 knots is blowing.
da vecta
da vecta
QLD
2515 posts
QLD, 2515 posts
5 Dec 2010 7:42pm
...you could try telling them that it is not the speed of the wind that makes you plane but the power...and wind power is proportional to the cube of wind speed...so 20k knots has 8 times more power than 10 knots? ...confusing myself now.
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
14969 posts
QLD, 14969 posts
5 Dec 2010 8:55pm
lol,

i tried to convince them that global warming is man made over a couple of bottles of red and failed so i'm thinking the physics is not going to hold much weight. [}:)]
hitch
hitch
QLD
144 posts
QLD, 144 posts
6 Dec 2010 12:46pm
got a nice run on saturday from about 2 - 4 dead east - so was sailing down the chanel from train to the grand & back nice long runs on very flat water - low tide -on 7.4m & 150lt board -a little gusty but i have never sailed in that wind direction. long runs on flat water is nice.
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