Wing foiling on lake Eildon

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thdurrant
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21 Dec 2021 11:41am
Hi All,
I have been kitesurfing for the last 5 or 6 years, living at the coast in Raglan NZ. I am about to move to Mansfield Victoria, and am feeling very nervous about being away from the coast!
Wing foilers have gradually overtaken kiters at my local, so the thought has occurred to me that I could take the opportunity to take up wing foiling on Lake Eildon. Probably launching from Goughs Bay.
Has anyone wing foiled on Lake Eildon? Is reliable enough to justify investing in some gear?
Thanks in advance!
bomberdave
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22 Dec 2021 12:47pm
I would think it would work well, just watch out for all the ski boats
thdurrant
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31 Dec 2021 1:04pm
Thanks bomberdave - yes, its a good point.

I couldn't find any good information on wind speed, so I decided to run a 1km downscaled atmostpheric model over the lake for a year just to get an idea and calculate a few stats. Just in case anyone is interested in the future, the first plot is mean wind speed, the second 90th percentile wind speed and the third is a wind rose at Goughs bay. This is very quick and dirty, and as I say only based on 1 year of data, but it looks like there is a 10-13knot SSE wind with some regularity. Overall I was quite encouraged!













CH3MTR4IL5
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31 Dec 2021 9:12pm
Wow, that went from casual query to extreme science very quickly
DavidJohn
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2 Jan 2022 9:07pm
I'm up there now and it's definitely do'able..

Right now it's at about 90% full.. Perfect.

A S/E wind works well and up the north western end (near Mansfield) is a good spot.. It's called Ford Inlet.

thdurrant
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4 Jan 2022 1:43pm
Thanks DavidJohn! Beautiful photo
MikeyS
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6 Jan 2022 2:04pm
And the water is warm- 25 degrees according to the sounder on my boat when we were tow-foiling a few days ago. So nice.
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