Whoah.
Edit: obviously the live reading I posted was a little time sensitive. Use this instead:
www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60701/IDV60701.94893.shtml
Meh, you all get the picture anyway. Some good stories.
Yeh
I was down their with my 1 mtr sail(raincoat) and 5 ltr board(skate) and did 50 kts before I hit the water. Official measurement by Speed camera before I hit the water and accelerated away
Whoa, I know the pros can sail in those sorta conditions in the French Trench, but is there anyone floating round in Aus that has a crack at these conditions (11am-4pm)?
Certainly. Most of the more experienced bay sailors have a 3.5m in their kit, just for these days. If it was a Sandy Point, they would be on the smallest speed gear.
I had a similar day to Sailquik, but replace Sandy point with Cape Woolamai surf beach.
Left work about 12.00 so I was committed to a sail. Tossing up between Rye back beach and Wooly on the way down thinking I can always chicken out and sail Rye front beach is it goes to ballistic.
Found myself veering off to Philip Island dogging dust storms and trees. Witnessed big gum fall over on the side of the road and hit a fence- awesome.
Got there and it didn’t look as bad as I thought - cross off heaps of banks holding the swell. Then after about 10 minutes into the session it must of picked up from 30knts to 40kts +. From out of control to too out of control.
Waited for a lull but it never came. Wind kept building.
Duct back to a shop to pick up a wetty, that took an hour because the Island had lost all its power due to a tree and we had to use a manual credit card swiper.
Wind dropped back to about 30knts so went back out at Woolamai. Slightly bigger waves than before on the incoming tide - was good but still too windy. Then about 40minutes later the wind picked up again and it was getting dark so got out of there. A Jap tourist made me pose for a picture but didn’t wait for me to put the gear down and wipe the snot on my face.
Traffic lights out everywhere so had a fast run home. (Conspiracy those things , we don’t need them)
Thought there would be a replay of the action because I was in front of the Woolamai Costalwatch Camera, but that’s right the power was out so no replay.
Back in the 90s when I still lived in Europe I used to sail a lot in the South of France. I remember one particular day where I saw a 20 foot container roll across the road.
We went to one of the Etangs (salterwater lakes) with an area usually known to have less wind. My weight at that time was about 90kgs... I sailed with an 80l board on a 3.5 sail. Most of it was fine until the big "container rolling" gusts would hit.
What was really depressing however was a local French man who came down in the afternoon when the wind had picked up a bit more (yeah, I know. What's the point). He was on a 65l board and had a 2.8m sail. That seemed to be the perfect combo given that he weight about 120 kgs. I have never since seen anyone do mast high forwards in those sort of conditions. Especially not on a lake.
So I think at 75kgs I am not surprised you would have problems... someone with another 45kgs of balast would have started to have fun at those conditions.
sounds like you should have got out the 3.7 wave sail Daffy and flattened the guts out of it.
