where are they and are they coming back?? isn't there supposed to be some around this time of year
i haven't had a good sail in ages 
Day two - "Becalmed".
A treacherous calm has besieged us and forced us to do odd jobs around the house as, alas, there is nought else. I put aside my tax return and dolefully stare out the window, willing my "wind tree" to move, the slightest response causing a brief flutter of excitement, an inner commotion only matched by the seaway's fallacious observations. These moments are cinders rising hastily from a camp fire, naively opportune and buoyant before rapidly fading into the darkness that encompasses us.
Hopefully help will arrive soon.
this time last year we had virtually 6 weeks of evil 12knot easterlies. i hope it's not a repeat
good session this arvo at Manly on the 7m. Fairly consistant ESE/SE 12-16 knots with the odd gust or lull....
Was reminising to Gesalt on the weekend about the good old days of SE's at VP, hopefully sooooonnn......
Think we are going to get a bit of an afternoon seabreeze today, probably just below planing speed!
[}:)]
I've been out on the GC Broadwater Monday and Tuesday. Planing 10% of the time on a 7.2.
It is so nice on a weekday. I've never seen it like that. I counted five boats over 5 hours on Tuesday, honest. Five! The entire area is flat and so quiet, no fn boat wakes messing it all up, no car traffic either.
These "weekdays" are another world.
I did a slogging cruuuuise from Labrador to Paradise Point. Water is beautiful, turquoise in the sun and high tide. Looks like it does on googley maps. Slogging around sure beats sitting in a dark room in front of an LCD... in Toowoomba.
Actually slogging around/crusing is like surfing. You spend most of your time paddling and waiting and then finally a gust/wave comes and wheeeeee! You really appreciate and enjoy it.
Day 5 - "Abandon All Hope"
Mountain peaks on the distant horizon (next week's forecast) have shifted back into emptiness, like phantasms into the mist of a muggy afternoon. Our journey has turned into a farce and we must succumb to the fact that November seabreezes are but a myth, assigned to the annals alongside mermaids, triple forwards and Cthulhu. Hopefully we will make it back to England alive.P.S. There is a faint glimmer of hope for Shearwater tomorrow morning. If a SE change rattles the shackles tonight I will be there : ) High tide around 7am should add a few knots.
"A 10/15 knots S/SE change near the far southern waters in the late evening."
hey panda,
sounds like you need a sup that takes a rig.
i went in the surf in 5 knots on one with a 6.4m sail. was sweet.
was 1330.......
