12:00 pm Wanda Thursday offered 12-18knots side/side off SW with clean 2-3 sets peeling down the line into a nice deep water rip. It just looked too good. I was half expecting very little in the way of waves but there must have been a little southerly pulse overnight. Rigged a grunty 5:0, took out a 76 litre and myself and a kiter went out.

A couple of pumps and I was actually fully planing on the way out. Gybing on a wave I could see lines of actual swell following me and even though the wind was gusty it was actually quite sailable. It was looking to be an awesome set up with the bigger waves throwing out a lip and forming decent walls for DTL heaven.

What could have been actually turned out to be.....

I got an hour and bit sailing in. Very off-on planing wise but mostly off with some large holes in the wind and nothing in the impact zone. I got a couple of waves but spent quite a bit of time swimming the rip getting washed in by the sets and sucked back out be rip - super fun. I did get one off the lip chop hop and nice bottom turn - top turn combo on one wave which was quite satisfying.

Then spent another 20 mins watching it as glassy patches got even bigger and the waves dropped off. Got frozen standing in the cold wind.

Can't wait for those Summer NE to return. In the meantime I'm keen to try Shellharbour in August - the "month of winds"

Hope someone has had a decent sail lately!