Hold onto your hats its cyclone time!

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Leech
Leech
WA
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26 Jan 2009 4:10pm
Expecting some good winds and swell for the south west in the wake of the cyclone that's due to cross the coast between Onslow and Karratha any time!

Dust off your 4.x metre sails, Perth!
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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26 Jan 2009 5:54pm
Huh?

Depends what forecast you look at I think
westhammer
westhammer
WA
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26 Jan 2009 8:39pm
Bring on the summer perfect storm
Greenroom
Greenroom
WA
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26 Jan 2009 10:40pm
Anyone got a 3.5m or 3.7m I can borrow?
There might be wind but without waves its no fun
Nebs can I borrow your thinga-ma-jig that records your whats-a-ma-call-it to put it onto a dooba-lackie?
nebbian
nebbian
WA
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26 Jan 2009 11:01pm
Any time Greenroom, but as always I need to know the night before
elmo
elmo
WA
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26 Jan 2009 11:44pm
Don't want to put a dampener on anyone's parade and I may be wrong here

But...

Don't Cyclone's rotate clockwise?

So

if the cyclone crosses the coast anywhere nth of us all we are going to get is offshore winds.

For it to give us any benifit it needs to be like Cyclone Alby and go past us giving us the onshore winds and f'ken huge swells which go with it.

Cyclones are good on the eastern seaboard as the clockwise rotation gives anything Sth of the system an onshore wind and swell, over here they just suck a big hairy bottom by stuffing up whatever wind and waves we have.

Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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26 Jan 2009 11:47pm
+24hr and +36hr charts show it just splurging out into a big fat low over the Kimberley and down to the tri state border.

we get an inland trough and seabreezes.

nothing exceptional in it (but not bad though...)

Leech
Leech
WA
1933 posts
WA, 1933 posts
27 Jan 2009 12:00pm
Ah, thanks for the info. I wasn't sure what effect cyclones typically have but I can remember one a few years ago that produced some sensational winds and kick arse swells.

Now fingers crossed this cyclone doesn't stuff up the wind this week!
Gestalt
Gestalt
QLD
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27 Jan 2009 1:32pm
bugger that's gotta suck.

only cyclone i've sailed in i needed a 3.5m and still got blown off the water, enjoyed spinouts half way through laydown gybes....

don't waste the thing. we'll have it.
Greenroom
Greenroom
WA
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27 Jan 2009 1:56pm
elmo said...

For it to give us any benifit it needs to be like Cyclone Alby and go past us giving us the onshore winds and f'ken huge swells which go with it.

Hey Elmz can you whip up one of these cyclones again please?
You seem to have the name for it
Greenroom
Greenroom
WA
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27 Jan 2009 1:58pm
nebbian said...

Any time Greenroom, but as always I need to know the night before

Sweet Nebs. I just dont want to take it if you are wanting to use it.
The next time it looks like I can get on the water could be Thursday?
Will keep in touch if the swell fizzles.

nebbian
nebbian
WA
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27 Jan 2009 2:16pm
Thursday's good for me... let me know.
elmo
elmo
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27 Jan 2009 2:26pm
Greenroom said...

elmo said...

For it to give us any benifit it needs to be like Cyclone Alby and go past us giving us the onshore winds and f'ken huge swells which go with it.

Hey Elmz can you whip up one of these cyclones again please?
You seem to have the name for it



I actually got the "Alby" name when I started my apprenticeship the year after the cyclone, all the tradies reckoned I had an equivalent path of destruction
Greenroom
Greenroom
WA
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27 Jan 2009 4:30pm
elmo said...

Greenroom said...

elmo said...

For it to give us any benifit it needs to be like Cyclone Alby and go past us giving us the onshore winds and f'ken huge swells which go with it.

Hey Elmz can you whip up one of these cyclones again please?
You seem to have the name for it



I actually got the "Alby" name when I started my apprenticeship the year after the cyclone, all the tradies reckoned I had an equivalent path of destruction

Hahaha... plumber?

elmo
elmo
WA
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27 Jan 2009 4:43pm
Greenroom said...

elmo said...

Greenroom said...

elmo said...

For it to give us any benifit it needs to be like Cyclone Alby and go past us giving us the onshore winds and f'ken huge swells which go with it.

Hey Elmz can you whip up one of these cyclones again please?
You seem to have the name for it



I actually got the "Alby" name when I started my apprenticeship the year after the cyclone, all the tradies reckoned I had an equivalent path of destruction

Hahaha... plumber?




F & M
Leech
Leech
WA
1933 posts
WA, 1933 posts
27 Jan 2009 11:25pm
Elmo you were right. Shouldn't have headed north
Greenroom
Greenroom
WA
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27 Jan 2009 11:41pm
Leech, Gazza and Rider got punked while Miller was on his 5.3m and I was on my 4.5m at the retirement village
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