should be ok later today for a Downwinder on the Goldy?
strong N-NWlys
Who's Keen?
Mick

leaving at 11am from ROAR shop.
Broadbeach to Currumbin????

You will want go quick!!! Nice storms are coming!

That wasn't cool:

I went for a paddle from Evendale to Sundale bridge. Solid head wind the whole way???.thats ok Ill get the return flight. Literally 100m after my turn around the wind dropped off, the river went to glass! (A skiers dream) oh well, just keep on truckin???.until the lightning started. Something about standing on water with a 7 foot long carbon lightning rod doesn't turn me on??????.got the rating up though.

some stories there.

at this time of year know your weather for the day

frizle said..

Did Broady to Burleigh
actually just stopped at Burleigh cause it was horrible,(and the huge stormfront scared me haha) wind swell from the side, just hard work
will message you Downwinder if I can squeeze one in tmrw
hopefully bit more lined up with the southerly change

I ended up doing a bit of running around plus Linda my lift had to drop some relo's of at the Airport so I mist the 2:00PM paddle. Linda is free all day tomorrow so I'm 100% going tomorrow afternoon might take the f16 for a run haven't paddled it for a while the f18 has been so addictive. Conditions are looking sooo good on Bouy Weather for tomorrow afternoon.

If the wind has any East in it it's not worth paddling past 2nd Ave Burleigh (even Nobby's SLSC to be precise) to paddle any further south would be a push been there done that run many years ago it's brutal (just side chop) e.g. not fun

Doing northly runs on the goldy is as good as southly runs and can be as quick the difference is northlys take a bit more skill to work the bumps as you need to get the ones going out to sea. Most people will find it hard to start with as they will try and get the little swells going to the beach and then end up to far on the iside which makes the last part between Burleigh and currumbin hard but if you work it right from when you leave the beach at broadbeach it can ba s auper fun run. Yesterday was perfect I averaged 4:30mins per km which is close to as fast as you can do on our southly runs in the same winds.
The best advice I can give is just get out there even if its not perfect and practice, the more you do it the better you will get.

paul.j said..

Doing northly runs on the goldy is as good as southly runs and can be as quick the difference is northlys take a bit more skill to work the bumps as you need to get the ones going out to sea. Most people will find it hard to start with as they will try and get the little swells going to the beach and then end up to far on the iside which makes the last part between Burleigh and currumbin hard but if you work it right from when you leave the beach at broadbeach it can ba s auper fun run. Yesterday was perfect I averaged 4:30mins per km which is close to as fast as you can do on our southly runs in the same winds.
The best advice I can give is just get out there even if its not perfect and practice, the more you do it the better you will get.

agree with jacko, you need a bit more experience to get the best out of the northerly runs. even the best tweed runs you still need to pick the right bumps to hold your 'line'.

there's a fun run when itsproper nw winds which is alley to snapper- fast times but most paddlers first time nearly end up beaching it a balinga.

the right bumps with practise. a 12'6 if your good enough is the go because you can steer it and the place it better then longer boards- more agile


that's quick times jacko