Port Macquarie, NSW, AU

Canton Beach, NSW, AU

Wind died early. Only got up to 15 in the gusts.

Great sail with Greg . James , simon and Carl , 20knots solid run out tide 1 m swell and hot

Port Macquarie, NSW, AU

3 categories

Swansea Sand Islands, NSW, AU. Somewhere different, very light at home and definately a bit more and only 20 minutes up the road, Greg was out with a couple of others. Not easy getting out and in with the tide going out so fast. Thought I was going to get sucked out the channel. 8.3 Koncept 112 JP Slalom 36 JP weedy. Go Marauders!

Town Green, Port Macquarie, NSW, AU Sailed with AJ. JP 45, overdrive 6.7, slingshot 23 then select s09 - THx Adam for the lend.  Great fun, short run and no arvo storm that was predicted.

South West Rocks, NSW, AU

4.5 Atlas, 92 FSW, thruster.  Obs at Coffs were 27 to 35 but only 15 to 20 at Port.  Can't feel wind at rigging spot so thought I'd rig for comfort.  Maybe a little too conservative, but probably would have just been punished in the super on off gusts if I'd gone bigger.

Macleay boat ramp - great way to ruin a perfectly good nor easter.  Like fishing but for wind and with a rig. Tug. Nothing. Tug. Nothing.  Tug tug tug.  SCREEEEEEEEEEEEECH. Nothing. Got away. I wish I was kidding.  The jerks on the boom are honestly just the same.

Town Green, Port Macquarie, NSW, AU

Hot Sails Maui 8m GPS + Falcon 99 + Meanline 36cm.

A fun couple of hours with Dion on the Mark.J speed strip. Tide was low, sandbar exposed, water flat and a nice 15kn NE. Nicely powered up on the 8m - as Byron would put it, "comfortable arm chair sailing". One of the better sessions I have had there as the wind was nice strength for a change and quite consistent....as usual an extra 5 knots would have made it superb. Would love to sail this strip at Low Tide with a 25kn NE, a 6.6m and the Falcon 79 - it would be all-time......one day we will get it, just need to be ready.

Dion was smoking on the speed board and cranking some really nice gybes on that board which is so bloody small. That fin you had a go on Dion was a Select Caspar Speed 09 size 29cm. Mark.J can get them in really cheap as they are now superceeded by a new model fin - only in certain sizes though.

Wallis Lake, NSW, AU. A late sail at the sailing club as the NE went northerly.Overpowered on a 7m GTX and Falcon 102,and lots of trouble waterstarting in the chop and very gusty wind - drank half the lake and sinuses full of water. Still no alpha!!! Lovely flat water on the weed bank meant lots of fun, with 9 people sailing so very social as well.

3 categories

Sailing Club Wallis Lake, NSW, AU

 Another Noreaster that didn't fill in at Booti. Migrated up to the Sailing Club to get some gusty and holey NNE to NE wind at about 15- 22k, with an out going tide making for some nice flat water out wide.

Pity the stronger gusts were coming through just off the weed bank! Very ordinary otherwise. Choppy and weedy everywhere else, and another mission to get out and back.My plans for a structured session didn't turn out.Settled for a short sail, hoping I wasn't too underpowered.Probably could have used the 6.5 like everyone else, but went more for ease. Rigged the "slow" stuff again.Hawk 93 LTD. Finworks 11.5"weedy 6.0GTX. It was sooo gusty!!

Sailed with Pete, Geoff, Chris. Bill and Anton came from the other side and I met up with some old clients from the past at the sailing club. Klaus and his family and Debbie and her daughter. One or two blow-ins about. We left Andre down at the point as he'd already rigged his 7.8 and hopefully got some nice runs in down there!Sorry Andre, but we had to get that elusive wind!It was definetley windier up there this time again.

Gosford, NSW, AU

Up & down NE breeze of about 8-14 knots

Used 7.5 NP V8

JP 114L Slalom

36cm weed free fin

Coomba Bay, NSW, AU

Coomba Bay, NSW, AU Great day, sailed from the Coomba side and met up with the crew. 20knts gusting 25 plus. Felt over powered on my 6.4 sailworks from time to time.

Nice Cruisy sail at Queens Lake. Ne

Fanatic Ray 125, Gaastra 7.5m Gtx, Jp 36cm weedy.

Wallis Lake, NSW, AU

Wallis Lake, NSW, AU

Still gotta work on the 2 second peak. Had a good time though.

Manta 59 KA Koncept 6.6 Lesshacher 28