this was the course that vando clocked his 43 knot run on thursday. earlier in the day it was knee high chop and the guys were doing 36 knots through it. pierre clocked a 42+ knot run as well and both were consistantly over 40 knots.
not exactly flat.
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looks similar to melvile waters aswell. pretty close to the same colour water as well.
Here is Hardies run 40 has been done here many times and some big nautical miles too
Portland harbour 14/11/2009 highest gust 72 knot
But if we didn't have Chesil Beach well this is the sea state the otherside on the same day!!!
Google it what a phenomenom!!!!!
Great photos Swagger, and thanx Gestaslt for giving us a view of QLD, and thatnx Bundy for Hardies, mus admit I got a bit of an E happnin with all those photo's of wind, when I was a young lad it was girlie pictures, now its wind pictures
i think the boys had an e or 2 amongst them on thursday also. either that or they were cold and needed to hug out on the water to warm up. [}:)]
it's been so long since we've had wind that strong. farrrk it was good.~!
i wanna sail in 70 knots. most i've done is 45-50 and had a ball
The last time I had a ball in 45 - 50 knots with Gestalt:
I wasn't windsurfing in it, I can tell you now!!!
haha neither was i, i was scared let me tell you. cowering behind a bbq.
funny story,
the euro tourist beside me (crouched behind a bbq) says to me "how long is this going to last and will it get worse?"
i calmly responded "this, oh this is just a little storm in australia" 
meanwhile a car beside us gets it's roof caved in by a falling tree.
that storm had, lightning, hail, floods and a little wrath of god.
Forgot to say Nick had a spell of speedsurfing back in November got a 39.24 10 second average, second to the mighty Pete Young (The Matrix) in Portland Harbour and 42.06 max.
Gives me hope he weighs 72 kilos same as me.
Who says you have to be heavy for speed sailing.
scary as
@ nebbian, and here's to many more goodtimes nebs.
@ sailquik, at 105kg i handle a fair amount of wind. if we had 60 knots come through i'd go and buy a 3.5m sail to celebrate or maybe grab the kids rig.
Similar to the Isle of Portland Storm of 2009, but with windsurfing!! Very gutsy effort.
So cool to watch going out in those radical storm conditions, more so since I wont let myself do it any more, another thing thats passed me by now!!!
Amazing footage in France and strangely you don't get a feel for the size of the sea at portland but here is a picture of Pulpit Rock on a normal day with people to scale against it.
The funny thing is on this day the boys in the pictures were out on 6m,5.6 and a 5.0 how Si was holding the 6m down (sail number 115) i will never know?
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haha neither was i, i was scared let me tell you. cowering behind a bbq.
funny story,
the euro tourist beside me (crouched behind a bbq) says to me "how long is this going to last and will it get worse?"
i calmly responded "this, oh this is just a little storm in australia"
meanwhile a car beside us gets it's roof caved in by a falling tree.
that storm had, lightning, hail, floods and a little wrath of god.
It was the quickest time i have exited the water!!! the green clouds and lightning made me think it could be bad! That shelter was awesome as well as the snags and beer!!!
