It's official!

We're giving away three pairs of the new Seabreeze Sunnies:



Since Dawn Patrol suggested here
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37735 that there be only three guesses per date we'll stick with that, and if that's the date of the first seabreeze then those three people will get a pair of sunnies each. If the date doesn't have three guesses on it then the sunnies will go to the people who guessed the closest, and if there's more than three of them (for example if there's three people guessed a day before and two people who guessed a day after), then the sunnies will go to the three who posted their guesses the earliest. This counts guesses in these threads:

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40361
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40261
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37735

Some rules in an easy to read list format:

1. You may have one guess for the Ocean Reef
   www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/wa.asp weather station, and one guess for the Kurnell
   www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/nsw.asp weather station.


2. You must be a resident of Australia.


3. The three winners will have the closest guesses to the first seabreeze on either side of the country. If your guess is the closest to the first seabreeze in Sydney and it's 5 days off, and Perth doesn't come in until a month later and someone gets it on the day, tough luck for you. The Perth guess wins.


4. In the case of more than 3 people with guesses as close as each other, those who posted their guesses first will be the winners. That counts guesses made in the threads above.


5. If you've already won something from www.seabreeze.com.au step aside please, let someone else score some goodies.


6. There is no closing date for entries, however your guess must be made at least 10 days before the date you are guessing


7. The first seabreeze will have four consecutive green arrows in the afternoon at either spot, associated with a high pressure system and blowing from the ocean inland, in the seasonal prevailing seabreeze direction (NNE -> ESE Kurnell, S->W Ocean Reef). A proper seabreeze. We will be judging based on the official BOM direction, using this map as a guideline
   


8. The judges decision is final and any correspondance entered into will be printed out so it can be ceremoniously filed in the round file on the floor. That's if it isn't ignored entirely.

Johnt, when you say 'The old timers reckon the first blow happens on 15 September', is that your guess? Nebbian, you cannot have the 31st of September, that's reserved for Seabreeze moderators and their families...

These are the guesses as I have them so far, post your entries on this thread and I'll update the lists now and again. Last update was siwil's guess from page 6 and done on 04/09/08.

Ocean Reef:
1-Sep vert
2-Sep big gill, elmo
3-Sep Tiddlywinks
4-Sep shear tip
5-Sep windangoesoff
6-Sep knot board, raggy
7-Sep jan, Waterloo
8-Sep Pittsy, SeanW, Biagro
9-Sep Richiefish, Promo Girl
10-Sep andrewm, Wineman, objc
11-Sep h20fly, alexb, Fooosh
12-Sep grumplestiltskin, CJ12
13-Sep ewan kite, xtortya
14-Sep Vance, Freeflow, SF
15-Sep kitebored, Johnt, Gonewindsurfing247
16-Sep grandfromage
17-Sep mick91, getfunky, Keahi
18-Sep Nebbian, GypsyDrifter, Zed
19-Sep OceanBlue64
20-Sep Slack, gerard, WINDY MILLER
21-Sep Rhys Porter, vando, saffieboy
22-Sep stribo, mattyjee
23-Sep sandi bottom, SammyJ
24-Sep wormy, landyacht, Nicka
25-Sep Kitesplosh, forked, jacky
26-Sep Hunter S, pinkee, JessGibson
27-Sep Puppetonastring, Pugwash
28-Sep BigFatMick, siwil
29-Sep Lancekenny, lurch
30-Sep General, tightlines
1-Oct bellz, blokey
2-Oct the Doctor, hilly
3-Oct Dawn Patrol, bearbusa
4-Oct fver, Bondalucci, dwmc
5-Oct sailhack, Mark_australia
6-Oct cRAZY Canuck
7-Oct Poor Relative, Moth
8-Oct Greenroom
9-Oct Sky Hook
10-Oct jonojonojono, Fuzzgerbox
11-Oct Supersane
12-Oct Leech
13-Oct Nug
14-Oct windjunky
15-Oct Gruezi
16-Oct
17-Oct sflack, matto, conor
18-Oct airhead
19-Oct
20-Oct Knickers
21-Oct
22-Oct dism
23-Oct
24-Oct
25-Oct D_Meredith79
26-Oct
27-Oct
28-Oct
29-Oct Biagro
1-Nov NotWal

Kurnell:
1-Sep vando
2-Sep big gill
3-Sep Piros, Macca Wollongong
4-Sep Keahi
5-Sep shear tip
6-Sep
7-Sep
8-Sep
9-Sep
10-Sep Fuzzgerbox, objc
11-Sep Biagro
12-Sep conor, Richiefish
13-Sep getfunky, Sky Hook, xtortya
14-Sep andrewm
15-Sep theDoctor, Pittsy, Vance
16-Sep Greenroom
17-Sep Wineman
18-Sep Waterloo
19-Sep Mobydisc
20-Sep OceanBlue64, WINDY MILLER
21-Sep alexb, Rhys Porter, sflack
22-Sep wormy, Bondalucci, ka43
23-Sep grandfromage, Fooosh, SammyJ
24-Sep Kitesplosh, saffieboy, Nicka
25-Sep Gonewindsurfing247, CJ12
26-Sep Hunter S, JessGibson
27-Sep puppetonastring, foorked, Freeflow
28-Sep SF
29-Sep
30-Sep tightlines
1-Oct grumplestiltskin, mick91, bearbusa
2-Oct hilly, siwil
3-Oct sandi bottom, jacky
4-Oct pinkee
5-Oct Slack, Mark_australia
6-Oct knot board, cRAZY Canuck
7-Oct elizabethb, Moth
8-Oct SeanW, Nug
9-Oct jonojonojono
10-Oct Poor Relative
11-Oct Supersane
12-Oct
13-Oct
14-Oct windjunky
15-Oct timford
16-Oct Sailhack
17-Oct matto
18-Oct airhead
19-Oct
20-Oct
21-Oct
22-Oct Pugwash
23-Oct
24-Oct dism
25-Oct
26-Oct
27-Oct
28-Oct
29-Oct
1-Nov NotWal
12-Dec Dawn Patrol

Is that for WA? Do you want to place a bet on NSW too and have a second shot at a prize?

ocean reef 24 sept.
kurnell 22 sept.

ocean reef - 10th september
Kurnell -1 14th september

I reckon the 19th of September for Kurnell. Not gonna bet on the WA seabreeze as I don't know.

12 Sep - Ocean Reef

1st Oct - Kurnell

I have no idea but I will say the 8th of sept for Ocean reef and the 15th of sept for Kurnell

24th sept for ocean reef says a friend who sails square riggers, Where is Kurnell?

20 Sep - Perth


5 Oct - Kurnell

Sep 11 - ocean reef

Sep 21 - Kurnell

I am only just guessing coz i live in vic i have no idea of the weather in WA

GreenPat said...
Nebbian, you cannot have the 31st of September, that's reserved for Seabreeze moderators and their families...

Drat!

I mean... seriously? Wow.

Isn't that like insider trading?

Ok then I pick 18th Sep for WA. Make sure you keep moderating the seabreeze up until this point, then make it blow like stink.

Mark _australia said...

Define seabreeze??? Does any southwester in the afternoon count?

Or must it be a west coast trough moves inland as a substantial high ridges in behind it, causing a proper thermal driven seabreeze?

Cos we usually get a front in late Sept (coincides with the spring equinox if that is the right 'event' name) ...and that brings a SW in it's wake like many fronts.

If any SW counts I vote 3:30pm this sunday as the graph shows a 4kn SW'er

Seriously though: define????

OK I just realised: first seabreeze of SUMMER? I pick 1st December 2008 for both Ocean Reef and Kurnell.
Seems all previous guesses so far are going to lose.

Bring it on.

30th september for me for Kurnell as well.

Mark _australia said...


OK I just realised: first seabreeze of SUMMER? I pick 1st December 2008 for both Ocean Reef and Kurnell.
Seems all previous guesses so far are going to lose.

Bring it on.

Mark has a good point here at first I thought he was just a pessimist but Summer doesn't start until the 1st December so either everyone else is wrong or we need to change the thread title.

18th September ~ Ocean Reef

Too Easy

GreenPat said...

Is that for WA? Do you want to place a bet on NSW too and have a second shot at a prize?

7th October for Ocean Reef (not 11th)
10th Oct Kurnell

Cheers Pat