Now you could propose your favorite place for artificial speed channel in Australia.
Here is my pick.
Just few km of Brisbane city, the place enjoy constant strong winds.





Obviously consideration is purely theoretical at this moment due to RED TAPE-National Park , but those condition do change constantly, the location remain for next few thousand years the same.+close to civilisationwarm climate whole year round-island access need feerry.

When we talk about shark bay there's a couple of issues. 1, Shark bay has 1,500km of coastline. 2,The strongest winds are probably in the vicinity of Dirk Hartog Is and the five fingers which are a long way from any population centre or infrastructure. 3, The way to get the local community to fund would be proximity to Denham. Denham and its 20km surrounds have no suitable areas for a canal. the closest would be around Big Lagoon or Boobays, both 40km plus away from Denham. Boobays is too close to world heritage tourism spots so couldnt see that happening. 4, I reckon a spot within the 5 fingers would probably be the spot, stronger winds than the Denham side, venturi effect between the fingers, but problematically so isolated that no-one locally would fund it. 5, As for private investors, it;d have to be sum1 willing to donate/throwaway a lot of money for little investment return. 6, Why would you bother when we have Luderitz which will always have stronger winds, with much cooler summer ocean temp about 16 to 18c vs 22 to27c shark bay, a ready made canal and every windsurfing speed record.

PS. a few years back when Crasher set the Shark Bay record of 46kts 2 sec peak, that summer we had the strongest seabreezes the west coast had had for 15 years. That was the year the ocean temps for the west coast were the coolest in 15 years. From Perth to Shark Bay we had regular strong sea breezes, in perth it was the most 20 to 30 kt seabreezes I could remember, and Shark Bay was getting regular 30 to 40kt seabreezes.

The last few years when the ocean temps have been more average/normal and we have had less 20 to 30 kt seabreezes in perth, and very few 35kt+ seabreezes at shark bay.

Macro, the only reason Cape Moreton reads consistently high is exactly that. The readings come from local lighthouse sitting on top of the large headland.

Movable wall thing that sticks up out of the water to stop chop.

Still waiting for Lake Grace to flood again up to the edge of the road....... can sail within 2m of the roadway and its a 50km speed strip with nothing to interrupt the wind also

mikey100 said..

We are way down the list here in Qld.

Well according to that list 6 of the top 8 are all in the Newcastle area. Which is of course nonsense.
Minmi, Awaba, Killingworth and Seahampton are inland suburbs with very little wind. Rathmines is also sheltered. What they have in common though is that they all use the same wind gauge as Newcastle which is positioned on Nobby's head which is a 33m high rock attached only to the mainland by a manmade causeway.

when i first created the burrum windfest i bought data from the bom that allowed a thorough review of the site i was using which allowed me to go beyond the 3pm average and from there could work out best time to run the event.