Sailing further south of the Cooks River mouth in a southerly, especially after rain, gives you cleaner water to sail in as well as longer runs.
And isn't this season just about our worst on record. Sailing about once a week in October, then a good southerly in at the beginning of November, a week off, a couple of good north easterly breezes, which should have been blowing in just about every day, and another decent southerly finally appears, with nothing on the horizon.