Good one Bob, that's Primbee alright. Was thinking there was just enough windsurfing content for the windsurfing section. Just. ( I've noted that the two starring windsurfers are SuperGus and the Teabagger )
Nice work old man ! Was a fun day sailing. I even had a bit of a kite that day too Ian ! Still misssummer though !!!
Enjoy the video very much. Water seems shallow. Will visit there one day.
Watching the video and realise carve gybe is not that simple to master
Good to see Gus back on a board, and even better to see that Teabag hasn't upgraded his..
It was good to see such a nice turn out down at Primbi the other day, Keef reckons my freestyle video sparked the revival but it's probably just the conditions..
Shameless plug of said video, Primbi sesh from a few years ago when 5 people on the water was a 'crowd'
I remember when this video was posted...and I took a drive one weekend to check out this place. Then the westerly primbee speed photos were posted over last year or two. Then this year I bought a winter wetsuit, and a slalom board, and a gt31, and that bloke keef fitted me out with a primbee weed fin.
barn your the man that put primbee on the map 
guys were sailing there but rigging from the yacht club until you posted your vid , then LEO (Christopher Columbus) started navigating the shallow shorelines with his legendary modified drake weed fin , we all thought he was totally mad
I remember the day LEO the navman and Craig Hammond was becalmed between windang and primbee , so I drove around to primbee and stuck a red wind jacket on a mast too pick them up from primbee -15deg , from there on we started developeing primbee weedy's as there was only two options , a delta weed or flexy fins at 45deg and both of those choices weren't an option
getting back to Christopher Columbus , there was a mud bank between the yacht club and primbee so you needed to put a tack in to get past the mud bank , so as you would if you would thinking the earth was flat (with a slalom fin) you wouldn't sail any closer than the imaginary line , so thanks to you barn and the MAN primbee is on the map as one of the prime speed /freestyle venues in Australia
sorry you caught the bug dezza , new board ,sails, boom, seat harness ,gps,, I hope you get some sailing time 
"edit" yep that's the mud hole where you took the vid, and barn you've come a long way in your board development , a feather in your cap to have AB the countries best freestyler
Keef I was sailing alone at primbee in 1983 that's over thirty years ago but it's true that it wasn't popular back then but I lived there in those days and didn't have a car or license so I was restricted to just primbee and couldn't venture anywhere else until 1985. Then I met other sailors who I brought to primbee to sail with me. Many of them no longer sail but one who visited there last weekend was amazed to see so many people there.
Yep I lived in Warilla and then Primbee in the 90s. I sailed there regularly in westerlies. One of my more memorable sailing experiences was in a huge westerly which raised dust clouds over the escarpment. I bought a Bombora 260 board for there. There was a regular crew sailing there but not as many as today which is great. This is in the days before weed fins. The best we had were swept back wave fins.
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Yep I lived in Warilla and then Primbee in the 90s. I sailed there regularly in westerlies. One of my more memorable sailing experiences was in a huge westerly which raised dust clouds over the escarpment. I bought a Bombora 260 board for there. There was a regular crew sailing there but not as many as today which is great. This is in the days before weed fins. The best we had were swept back wave fins.
were you rigging at primbee or the yacht club, when I started to sail there the locals never rigged at primbee because of the shallow water
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Yep I lived in Warilla and then Primbee in the 90s. I sailed there regularly in westerlies. One of my more memorable sailing experiences was in a huge westerly which raised dust clouds over the escarpment. I bought a Bombora 260 board for there. There was a regular crew sailing there but not as many as today which is great. This is in the days before weed fins. The best we had were swept back wave fins.
were you rigging at primbee or the yacht club, when I started to sail there the locals never rigged at primbee because of the shallow water
Normally I'd rig up in my front yard, I lived next to the football field, carry my gear down and go sailing. I never launched from the Yacht Club in a westerly. Sometimes I'd drive around the a little park jutting into the lake, up from the club as it was an easy reach over to Primbee. This was when I lived at Warilla and had to drive there.
I think what has happened with windsurfing is there has been a generational change. A lot of the blokes I sailed with in the 90s in the Illawarra were in the mid fourties and are no longer sailing. I would not mind catching up with them but they don't seem to be around.
And the reason it wasn't popular for launching is that cars would get broken into regularly and junkies would shoot up there. The foreshore was a dumping ground for a long time . I saw an old box trailer left in the water there one day , even dead cats were dumped there. Terry ( over 30 years sailing ) would launch from there a lot and Leon has been sailing there since 92 . Leon and I started kiting there in 2007 and cleaned a lot of the foreshore up to make it safer for kiting .The area started to get a few more kiters coming and going and less junkies pulling in there. Then one day we saw this young guy doing some crazy stuff on this board that didn't look anything like a windsurfing board , awesome stuff barn and nice vid . The speedsailors started launching there instead of the Yacht Club and it became very popular thanks to photos and videos of windsurfing and kiting on seabreeze , nice work guys and the lake entrance having a permanent opening has improved the water quality. Awesome job of clearing out those reeds Anibal , mate I heard that a family pulled up there one day when there was no wind and had a picnic next to the water , great stuff
You gotta remember that in the 80s and early 90s there was no such thing as the Internet or websites these would have sounded like somewhere that spiders would live no mobile phones and only rich people had video cameras so only locals knew of spots like primbee but in this modern day sharing information is rampant and very accessable.
There were plenty of drug users around the area in the 90s. I often came across used needles. The responsible ones placed their needles in a plastic container that was then discarded. My car, a yellow Valiant Charger got broken into too there. They checked out my windsurfer fins as I found then ordered on the front seat but took all the change kept in the ash tray.
