Early reports in from Sandy, and it seems the easterlies of the past week at Shallow Inlet and 'longarms' are closer to the 'gust' strength than the 'average' strength that is measured at the new Yanakie automatic weather station.
Be interesting to hear how it goes as we get some westerlies and SW'ers, but at least for east'ers its a good sign, particularly for those that like a wavesail.
Any comments @djwally??

BTW: location, according to lat/lon on BoMsite, is www.google.com.au/maps?q=-38.81+146.19&hl=en&ll=-38.813764,146.180477&spn=0.069286,0.151577&sll=-37.860283,145.079616&sspn=1.123261,2.425232&t=p&z=13

windjunky said...

Early reports in from Sandy, and it seems the easterlies of the past week at Shallow Inlet and 'longarms' are closer to the 'gust' strength than the 'average' strength that is measured at the new Yanakie automatic weather station.
Be interesting to hear how it goes as we get some westerlies and SW'ers, but at least for east'ers its a good sign, particularly for those that like a wavesail.
Any comments @djwally??

BTW: location, according to lat/lon on BoMsite, is www.google.com.au/maps?q=-38.81+146.19&hl=en&ll=-38.813764,146.180477&spn=0.069286,0.151577&sll=-37.860283,145.079616&sspn=1.123261,2.425232&t=p&z=13

Sailed there mon-wed last week and yanakie was saying 14-15 gusting to 25-30knots. Particularly on the wednesday i had a 4.2 fully downhauled and had no problems getting out at Longarms and catching a wave. Would advise using the gust as a sail guide - though i reckon the best indication is a couple of runs on the inlet and if you feel plenty powered there, you'll be ok across in the surf.

At the gap both yesterday and today, Yanakie gusts were a good guide.
Yesterday 25knots - 4.7 to 4.2 wind
Today about 28-30 knots, prob with some gusts over 30 - 3.7s were the go.
Would've been really offshore at longarms today, considering the gap was cross-off.