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Jimmy's Beach in a SW?

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Created by nosinkanow > 9 months ago, 12 Jun 2013
nosinkanow
NSW, 441 posts
12 Jun 2013 4:00PM
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It's apparently going to blow on Saturday and I'm going to be at Hawks Nest for the weekend. Is Jimmy's too open and will become hugely choppy? The run on the map though looks like one will be flying parallel to the beach. Can anyone advise the best spots and anything to be wary about?

BarryFawkes
NSW, 149 posts
12 Jun 2013 4:23PM
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Yes very choppy but sailable watch out for outgoing tide and great whites

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
12 Jun 2013 4:56PM
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If you are looking for flatter water I'd recommend the southern most Myall Lake, Bombah Broadwater about a 15 minute drive from Hawkes Nest. Its a huge expanse of water. I sailed there doing about 25 knots for 10 minutes in one direction and only got about a third of the way out. The water was pretty flat in a southerly wind too. I'm not sure but I don't think its very deep.

Waiting4wind
NSW, 1871 posts
12 Jun 2013 5:01PM
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Don't go down the Winda Woppa end, big shore break there due to sand erosion.

AJEaster
NSW, 698 posts
12 Jun 2013 5:09PM
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just get your ass back up to Queens Raf.....we miss seeing you on the water

PhilSWR
NSW, 1104 posts
12 Jun 2013 9:57PM
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AJEaster said..

just get your ass back up to Queens Raf.....we miss seeing you on the water


Like he said ^^ And SWR's for a change of scenary- and lovely clean sand and user friendly waves.

nosinkanow
NSW, 441 posts
13 Jun 2013 12:37AM
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Adam & Phil, I have not forsaken you guys

Just catching up with some very old buddies, some I haven't seen for over 10 years. I thought of bringing the windsurfing gear....maybe not wise to hehe...hic!

Heard good things about Jimmy's but sounds like a better go to NE spot. Good river system for yak fishing too it appears.

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8253 posts
13 Jun 2013 10:26AM
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I've often though it would be good in a SW..shark sightings worry me but not sure how much risk there really is..

wdric
NSW, 1625 posts
14 Jun 2013 11:11PM
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Kiting, I go up in around the next bay to the west from winda woppa (launch from the point on the west side) from wnw to sw (west is best), not flat but better than the open bay, which can be very bumping with tide against the wind, not a big area though.
Working upwind a bit more at low tide it is a little more protected from a big sand bank that comes out from the river mouth.

From memory the tide was heading out for another 1hr after.
Depending on tide direction have had some fun on small waves around the entrance to the river.
One end of the tack is closer to shore and it does get flatter.

For the next few months often the shoal bay webcam shows white caps early in the morning from the west till about lunch time when we often got nothing in Newy

Here is a pic from last year





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