It was quite good at La Perouse today, but gusty of course. Sailed from 2 to 5, the only one out except for one other sailor who was out for an hour or so. Quite good swell coming in through the heads.

My first summer season here - strange to be storm sailing in summer. Is this common?

Rod

Windang was fun plenty of people there

Chris, found freestyle heaven today.....well for a southerly anyways. After a quick sail with some friends at sanctuary point I got a call to go and check out a lake in the area. I packed up and headed for it, we got there and it was about 20knots with the odd gust but it was very steady. Dead onshore and super flat, i rigged in record time and hit the water with my 6.2 and 95l FSW. Maxed out on my 6.2 a 5.4 or 5.8 would have been enought, but given how flat the water was it was nice to be overpowered for a change. It has a weedy bottom and the Makani Mano 23cm was perfect, once you got out a bit a standard freestyle or small freeride fin would be ok but if you want to take advantage of the shallow super flat area a weedy or freestyle fin is a must. The biggest pice of chop I saw all afternoon was about 20cm high and that was only in a real windy period when it picked up to about 25 knots, the only other place flatter I've seen is shark bay in WA. We are going to check it out in the next nor'easter to see if it works, looks like it will but we'll see. Anyways for you guys that are into the flicky spinny stuff this place is for you, if you think Lake Illawarra is flat just wait till you see this spot.

jh2703 said...

a lake in the area

swan lake?

Swan lake....nope, a bit further north

If you have the weendy app on your smart phone you can check out a quick vid of the location, if you don't have the app get it, it's a good way of finding out who's out sailing and how windy it is.

Wollumboula???