Hello Sailors!!!

First let me introduce myself and give you some background.

I'm a 62 year old child and started sailing at the ripe old age of 40

while living in the Hunter Valley NSW.

My sailing was flat water and my main spot was Lake Macquarie NSW

(I only recently learned of the tragic and far too early demise of Andrew Regan.

vale Andrew. You will be missed.)

I also sailed Caloundra Golden beach and Currumbin offshore.

We moved to Ningi in '06 and a difficult family committment

kept me off the water since then.

As Fast Eddie and Arnold famously said "I'M BACK!"

Well, I was and then I found the rats had eaten the luff of my 8.5 XT2,

the 7.1 XT was as brittle as an eggshell and the mast bases were perished.

My collection now requires a substantial capital infusion.

I have recently purchased (used) a 10 Retro, 8.5 NX a 6.6 Koncept

I also still have a 7.0 Koa, 6.2 Pulse 5.2 Revo and 4.6 Hokua.

My three boards are a Thommen XXL,

a Mistral Explosion and a Drops flex tail.

I'm about 5gk overweight (85kg) and have very little sailing fittness but hopefully

will remedy this in the coming month or two.

I'm still after a boom for the 10 Retro and a Deep Tuttle weed for the Thommen

XXL and seagrass that seems to grow in abundance here.

Enough about me, What I need to know are the best sailing spots close to Bribie

so I can zip out for an hour or two without driving 3/4 of an hour each way!

When I had to stop sailing my ability was only limited by flat water experience as

I had decided that wavesaing would be too heavy and expensive on gear.

Any help and advise on local conditions and hazards would be most appreciated.

Of course I would be willing to travel to where sailors favourite North Brissie

spots are too.

Please PM me if you can help.