Hi fellow watermen
I'm thinking about kiting from wello to straddie - my mate has a small sailboat so would have boat support.
has anyone done this? is it doable?
thanks
flo
Wrong forum I think we sailboard but would be very careful that's a long way and the boat will not be able to keep up with you.
I don't know about North Straddie but I seem to remember that Leo and Mark sailed from Wello to Moreton Island a year or 2 ago.
Use to do Bribie Island to Moreton on an outgoing tide on a NE with a storm building up over Gatton. 20km off the wind blasting with the wind always building due to the storm. Needed to leave around 1pm and you always made it back before the storm crossed Redcliffe. Plenty of current ment it was a fast trip.
I've done a down winder from Wello to Redcliffe - got quite close to Moreton, then had a 17km reach back towards Shorncliffe.
Overall sailed about 70km in around 2hrs.
It's not so much a distance problem, it's about having a good safety plan if something happens. Especially allowing for the wind conditions to change as you go further.The times I've got 3/4 of the way to Straddie in a S'Easter, the wind started to get quite patchy and the water depth is quite shallow towards Amity Point.
Good fun when it works, potential nightmare if something happens with no rescue plan...
thanks for the input.
safety is my concern and my rescue plan is the sailboat. I would stay very close by and if wind drops we can just cruise back as the thing sails in next to no wind. he has done a trip to moreton and straddie already.
