Wood paddles instead of carbon fibre?

What time and where?

thanks Gorgo, I mean the ones on seabreeze
ie: graphs and maps.... www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/synoptic.asp?StateID=1&loc=MELB
this doesn't coincide with BOM.

What time you leaving - morning or arvo?

Latest forecast not looking too promising.

Forecast for Saturday
Winds: North to northwesterly 5 to 10 knots tending westerly late morning then south to southwesterly at 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 0.5 metres. The chance of thunderstorms.

Looks like the Seabreeze Graphs were right.

Tomorrow there might be a nice clean wave at Grove on the mid to high tide. Or you could paddle on the Barwon All Welcome!

Phill

Agree with Paul,
Monday's looking promising at the moment,
save me a spot in the bay lineup.

PTWoody said...

Midday on MONDAY is looking juicy...

Forecast for Monday
Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots tending northerly 20 to 25 knots during the morning then tending north to northwesterly 25 to 30 knots around midday. Winds west to northwesterly later in the evening. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon.

Ohhhhh sorry to rain on your parade. But as we all are dying to get out there, can't we please wait until Sunday night and see what the hell happens in this town - weather is updated by the minute here at the moment - five seasons in one day.

Tomorrow (Monday) is looking perfect for a great down-winder.

I'm thinking 10am at Sandy to do the car thing.. and start from St Kilda at 10.30 for the first run down to Sandy.

After lunch some of us might do another run.. A mega down-winder from Rickets Point to Frankstone..

Any West-coasters coming up..

DJ

Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds: East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly up to
20 knots during the afternoon. Seas: 0.5 to 1 metres. Local thunderstorms this
afternoon and evening with squalls above 35 knots possible.

I'm in for StKilda to Sandringham. Will decide on the Frankston encore once we reach Sandy.

DavidJohn said...


Bring a hard-hat..

DJ

Don't have a hard hat but should be able to cobble together something like this...

DavidJohn said...

My car's covered in hail dents..

DJ

I was driving down to StKilda Beach with the Starboard Hero on the roof aiming for a quick paddle when the hail storm hit. Decided to resist the urge to SUP in the storm, but both board and car withstood the hail stones and not a single scratch or dent.

DavidJohn said...

Tomorrow (Monday) is looking perfect for a great down-winder.

I'm thinking 10am at Sandy to do the car thing.. and start from St Kilda at 10.30 for the first run down to Sandy.

After lunch some of us might do another run.. A mega down-winder from Rickets Point to Frankstone..

Any West-coasters coming up..

DJ

Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds: East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly up to
20 knots during the afternoon. Seas: 0.5 to 1 metres. Local thunderstorms this
afternoon and evening with squalls above 35 knots possible.

Hey DJ ,tomorrow's forecast is the one were after,
Forecast for Monday

Cloudy. Early rain and the chance of a thunderstorm clearing around dawn. A shower or two to follow for most of the day before tending to rain later. Winds north to northeasterly averaging up to 50 km/h tending north to northwesterly up to 60 km/h around midday.

See you down at Sandy at 10:00am

It was a great paddle. 7 of us went down, Cammo, Paul, Cameron, Rosco, DJ, Alan and myself. I think we left pretty close to 11:00am from St Kilda. It was blowing about 20knotts - just enough to see a few white caps but just enough for all of us to get a bit of runner action. We met up at Green Point around 12:30 and then the storm hit so we got a bit of a taste of extreme downwinding action from there to Sandy - it was a lot of fun.

Did you get some good gusts down your way Simondo?

In that last shot, looks like Oliver is trying to locate the stragglers who got washed onto the rocks in the sudden wind change.