Ok lads, I have just had three days very good surfing (overhead and some potential barrels - others were doing it justice better than me) and now it looks like a genuine Southerly is coming!
So its time to pack the little wave board, my new 5.0 and head to the outer reefs! Whose with me?
Actually Sunday is better for me..... so I hope to read some great "should have been here Sat stories"
cheers
A couple weeks back I saw someone out solo at Makaha. Looked brilliant. I'm keen to give it a try if anyone else is. Can't work out how you wold get there other than a broad reach from longy or a walk with gear on the north side. Let me know if you need someone for shark bait....
as I've never sailed there and only read about it at..... 
You can launch from carpark at the end of Florence Av(see link).
Just watch the shallow bits on the way out to Makaha near the beach.
The swell has to be getting big from the south before Makaha starts getting good.
You can also launch from Longreef but usually by the time Makaha is working, Longreef is big and messy and is hard to get out through.
There is a wind shadow on the way out, downwind of the cliffs which can be tricky too, so once off the beach at florence av, do a broad reach to get as much speed as you can and hopefully the wind shaddow will not bother you too much.
You can also carry your gear around from fishermans beach(where the tinnies are stored)to Makaha but it is hard work.
Might see you there on the weekend.
Cheers
Roberto
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Roberto's advice is on the money! Today the outer reef was breaking owing to the NE swell and looked awesome... but the SE was light and not enough to get out from Brown Water/Florence st. It was a long way out and looked very isolated.
The reef at Newport was just starting to break this afternoon and on the low tide it would have been awesome. Pity the SE didn't hang in. I did get out for an hour or so off the island and got some waves right off the point and into the Crosswave. Tricky but awesome and the bog in no wind was not that fun!
Jesus Jase, jakes going to be a tough little bloke when he's older....... If he survives his youth
It will be good to have some company out there.
No matter how shallow it looks there is always enough water and you can sail into the bay area for high speed lay down gybes.
I'm going to try to be on it early. Launching from Brown Water, down the road from the the windsurf shop.
Had a session at wanda where it was windy and not too bad but came up short due to equipment failures.. 
... A quick stop by the shop at collaroy in the morning and seeing as i'm in the area I reackon i'll give Makaha a shot 
....sounds like there will be a crowd there.
wanda has big swell and a strong southerly / south westerly. been to long reef and Makaha this morning and didn't seem as windy as south side and more westerly. hope all have a good sail today. it is definately on 
wanda was sic till about 11am this morn before it got to gusty. then checked again bout 2pm on way to work and it had swung south east and was lookin good again.
It turned out the peak at White Rock was the goer. It's the break just before Makaha. The wind was too South for Newport to work - it was a mess any way as the swell kicked up.
At White rock the swell was wrapping around the headland and on the big sets it was well over mast high but still pretty full and crumbly on most waves. But soooo good. The trick was to stay as close to the rocks as possible and pick up the 3rd wave of the biggest sets that looked like there would be a decent wall to it.
Go out at 1:00pm on a 5.0 and sailed until 3:30.. then the wind started to die and catch a lot of us out.
hope you all got some
Hi guys, I was up in NSW all of last week, had to leave early Saturday....By the sounds of it you guys had a good sess on Sat....
While I was there I checked out Gerroa, Kiama, Corrimal, and Wanda....had a few awesome surf's at Wanda....You guys are so lucky to have such awesome spots to sail, and the warm water is a treat compared to the icy VIC waters....How consistent is the wind in those places over the winter? In VIC where I live, we will get stuff all for the next few months
I noticed that there are some breaks way out the back at a few of the above mentioned places, do you guys sail out to those?
