Just curious what you guys consider the lightest conditions to go wave sailing- and on what gear? I know it's fun when it's blowing 15 knots plus, but what's the least amount of wind you'll go out in? Just talking ya typical beach break stuff, head high max and light breezes.
Cheers.
When I lived down in Gerroa I'd go out on a SUP with a 5m sail in 5 knts when there was good swell. In beach break dribble I probably wouldn't bother.
Not beach break stuff but check this out this for light wind + pro sailors
There are several heats uploaded to vimeo.
Good clip mate. Seems like a chug-a-thon getting out, but once on the waves it's game on, with plenty of speed and power even on the smallish boards they're riding. Sadly my home break doesn't look like that...not very often anyway
sup sailing on nice clean waves with light wind is so much fun. We try to wavesail as much as possible. I got box head last week on 6-8knots cross off 4-6foot and got way more waves the all the surfers and sup's. Was getting over 400m waves. Cross off works better in light winds because the wind increases more when your on the wave. Any excuse to go sailing. Im not going to pretend that it's better then 20knots but its still heaps of fun.
Get on the water
Box Head can be epic hey. I use to surf there a bit when I lived on the Cen Coast, pretty amazingly long wave really. Never viewed it as a sail boarding spot, but now you mention it, it would be pretty close to perfect. And being a goofy it was Heaven to me.
Probably 10-12knots is game on, just want enough power in your sail to help going thru breakers, and this is normally enough to water start in also
12 plus knots usually to go out but when im out i'll head back in when it drops below 8 knots, which is usually a swim back in 
anyone from gero will say "yea about 25 knots otherwise its a bit pointless" 
6.2s (and even 6.7s to a degree) and 105 litre wave boards are totally high performance these days
You just have to make sure that your rig is light - that is one of the keys to the big sails.
This in turn opens up a whole new world of light wind sailing
and makes those 12-15 knot days full plane , get lots of waves and some jump conditions.
Had an 11 knot day in the desert last easter - 6.2 and 95 litre board - chest high waves - some of the most fun wave sailing i have ever had - and probably did my best ever up and under aerial pop out of the lip straight up in the air i have ever done (i cant usually do these).
Big wave sails are going to be seen a lot more on the west coast. sounds like the east coast is pretty sorted for wind this year.
But the time will come!
