Is yamba any good in a nw, or does it need to be N to NE. Thinking of going for a drive this arvo after a snooze or maybe tomorrow afternoon, just coming off dog watch. I've been waiting a while for a decent northerly to have a crack. Cheers
Interested to hear how you went, as I will be travelling a bit to sail when I move to Coffs by the sounds of it.
Looks like nice northerlies there today.
G'day Wormy, I didn't end up going, I was watching the BOM observations for Yamba, did not really pick up until it was too late to make the drive. I am going to go up tomorrow, dare I say it- the forecast looks good.
Been windy out West of you in Armidale today
How did today go if ya made it to Yamba?
Where do you sail up there? Pippy beach is normally pretty messy surf
G'day Dism,
yeah I made it up, it was good. Well worth the trip. A little bit patchy, however compared to the harbour was great. Cannot wait to head up again shortly.
I was a little under powered though, which made it a bit frustrating. I only had a really old 6.2 sailwoks synchro (it still has KA 43's stickers on it) and the loft o2 7.4. I mainly sailed the 6.2 until late.
There was another young bloke there on a F2 stoke and north sails and a couple of older crew. It was good to have some company sailing, things get a bit lonely in coffs sniff sniff hahaha.
Sound like a good mission
Yeah, it is a bit like that with few sailors around Coffs, I envy the GC Windwanderers Crew
Well Wormy will be in Coffs soon, and over Summer (at least) I will be around (now just need to get good enough to sail in waves! or even slop!)
I know the feeling of the Sailworks Synchros, my first 2 sails (started last summer) were them, a 7.5, 6.5 and 5.5m they all blew out from being really old and UV damaged, cams rigged like hell, but nice and locked when going
Might look at a 7.5-8m cammed sail for light wind again, 6.5 my biggest atm
We really need to find a big open area of water around Coffs (a flatwater version of the ocean would be nice), without gusty conditions hey!
Something good to look forward to:
NSW wavesailing comp
4 - 6 Oct 2008 Event 2 - Exocet Woopi Classic - Woolgoolga
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I might get down to the coast to check it out (hopefully)
Hope to catch up with you soon, will be down at the end of november/early dec. for a few days, at this stage still not sure if we will be permanent this year or next year. Work, houses, caravans and tenants to sort out and fall into place sometime before we can move into our unit.
I'll be bringing my gear so would love to catch you dudes for a blast somewhere.
Looks like theres a ripper N.Easter there right now , I'm keen to give parky/coffs creek a blast.
Anyway I might get some details of you when gets closer.
Sound good Wormy, Mabbott would know more about sailing the Creek/NorthWall/Parkies area, i've only sailed it once, but surfed around there a fair bit
I will be back in Coffs around the same time, so look forward to a sail with you fellas, haven't sailed much with company before (probably a good thing as still learning on flatwater really and newby to surf)
Can't wait to be back on the water hey
Yeah I'm not to keen on huge surf, I grew up surfing Park Beach and had some pretty horrible encounters with some ugly surf as I was to young to no better and not to paddle out,
We sail in bump&jump conditions up here, can get small swells to 2-3 feet. So the wave thing will be new to me but If I remember correctly the swell is somewhat sheltered on that section just south of the island. With a N.E. I would think you would be sailing to the south of the sand spit out to the island(pig island??) in somewhat sheltered swell.
Or if thats no good go to urunga, see what happens at the time, just hope it blows.
And don't worry, we are all still learning. Nothing like having other guys around you help you progress.
Yeah the creek is fairly sheltered, depends what the swell has been doing prior to the NE. I have only sailed it a handful of times. When the wind really cranks it gets too sloppy. I was talking to a guy named Lance at the harbour the other day, he recommended station creek which is only a few K's up the road from where I am living at the moment or southwest rocks in a NE. May need a FWD depends on the condition of the access road as it is in a national park- yuragyir or something similar.
Mate I am getting no uni work done with the wind lately. I have two assessments due on monday. Better get cracking and stop procrastinating and going sailing. I love summer, NE's and skimpy clothing on the women- woo hoo.
Yeah, I scoped out Trail Bay (near South West Rocks) a couple of months ago, a beautiful open bay, with nice sand slope into the water (so no shoreys), not much swell on a Southerly, dunno if its gusty of what but (wasn't blowing much when there)
Haha, I know what you mean about uni assigns, i'm getting nailed by them atm.
Lucky at least I don't have gear out here, so I just watch the trees and mind sail
Yeah, if there is a few of us, then it'll be much safer to sail around Coffs, as sometimes it feels sketchy in ocean by myself, with windsurfgear thats much different to a stick or boog
Station Creek sounds interesting, I've heard that Minnie Waters (same sorta area) could be good to
Just looking at the OzWindsurf guide againhttp://www.ozwindsurf.com.au/view_article.php?article=travel_02&issue=2&title=Mid+North+Coast+NSW%0D%0A
Yeah Armidale is better for study atm, and the wind is still here, even if its a mish to get non-gusty conditions, its starting to get warm (t-shirt and shorts weather is nice for up here), but missing the skimpyness, damn you Mabbott!! hehe
I've got some nice pikkies from the nuclear winds we had in Coffs a month or two ago, i'll have to upload them soon, that'll get you stoked to move here Wormy!
The Parkies shoreys are known to thump in hard, even in 3-4ft conditions, can be closeout city
Bump and Jump in 2-3ft sounds perfect, so keen for Summer sailing
