Hi Viccos
Ive sort of now got the hang of wing foiling in the shallows of the bay, and Im loving it!!
Anyone know of any good spots for downwinding on the Melbourne East Coast?
I assuming out in the bay doesn't get enough swell/fetch or am I wrong?
Anyone been doing it on the Morn Pen or Westernport?
Cheers
Raz
There's lots of good spots that work well on different wind directions.. At this early stage in wing-foiling most people just tack upwind and then downwind back to where they started.. There is plenty of swell on the bay for surfing runners and as far as the Mornington peninsula goes westerlies seem to work best for point to point downwinders but northerlies would be good for upwind-downwind runs.. Westernport bay can be good on southerlies from Flinders to Point Leo.
Absolutely keen to do a few downwinders. I think there's a bunch of good options for most wind directions both on the bay and at the coast.The bay swell gets good for downwinding when wind approaches 20 knots, and is awesome and decent size when it's 25 knots or more.
The strong winter northerlies may be good for downwinding from the top down the bay, especially if there's a bit if west in it.The SUP VIC guys recently arranged a downwinder for paddlers, and invited the wingdingers to join. I think I was the only one who took it up. It was scheduled for a nice southerly day from flinders to pt leo, but in the end was cancelled as it happened to be the weekend of the snap lockdown.
I tend to do upwind then downwind back to where I started like most people as DJ mentioned, but to make a long way up is going to take time and I enjoy riding downwind more, so it'd be up for it every now and then.
You can see how good it gets on the bay at the 2.45 mark in this vid.. Can't wait to do it on a foil.
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You can see how good it gets on the bay at the 2.45 mark in this vid.. Can't wait to do it on a foil.
That is pretty damn proper awesome! Looks like a St Kilda / Middle Park start, where did you end up?
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You can see how good it gets on the bay at the 2.45 mark in this vid.. Can't wait to do it on a foil.
Those windswells look epic - super vid 
Aaaah, that brings back good memories from the DJ archives! That was one ripper downwind run David, with the waves really well lined-up with the wind. In the Bay, the waves start to get to a decent size especially when the wind gets to that point where you get blown onto the runners (25 - 30+ knots), which you can see happening here.That's a few years ago, now. My 14'ers have been gathering dust since foiling and wingding entered the scene. Footage like this almost makes me want to dust them off again!
