hi Pete, Zak and the west coast team
hows it been over there? no updates of late?

its been ok over here down far
tuesday xoff to 25 head hi
wed x 10-20 half mast
fri x 5-15 logo clean

what time did you sail today? i had a look a few times and it never seemed windy enough. big sail?

Not much to report from this side of the ditch this week
Too ''F@#&ing cold , gusty for this old dog and Zac
Point Drumond or ''The Salmon Hole'' would have been the spots to look at, if the zipper on the wetsuit hadn't frozen shut!!
Good to see you are out testing the 105, how much bigger board volume can we go ? 120L for the 100+kg guys ?

120 sounds great; no doubt it will work great in waves for 100kg+

i am 95 kg suited up and 105 floats me. with light full carbon rig, have been riding 105xwave single in as little as 5 knots- and been very surprised how well it goes in waves. This is my standard Adelaide onshore seabreeze board; was finding 95 a little too small on really light days, so tried 105.

No doubt a twin or quad setup with hardcore wave rails, rocker would be awesome, especially in really fast or critical waves, but this thing doesnt give much away, then you can take it for a sail on the lake or semaphore too!!

By using bigger gear i've doubled my time in the waves. westerlies are straight xshore at middleton and wind is much cleaner than xoff nnw/nw so if HindmarshIsland BOM is saying w or wnw 10-20+ it'll be sailable, usually take off 5-10 kts for day st.
Timmy's a big gear convert after watching 105- he was surfing friday while i was out on big gear; he's gonna try running 10L over his bodyweight.

The grip on the board looks cool

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Hey Maris - you need to put a weather station and web cam on your house - maybe streamed to OES web page and then you might get more people sailing with you if we can see you out there - providing we aren't working or chained up at home!!!

Good idea Russ.

Maris could we please have a web cam ........

maris said...

me and my big mouth...........

re; webcam, was some teabag mob who were going to do a webcam a year or so ago but nothing came of it. I also suggested it to Ben Matson of swellnet........nothing yet. spoke to a mate at chiton rocks surf club where they have one- u need adsl; i dont have a phone line at moment. if anyone knows anything about a quik/easy solution let us know. can you get a cam that works on demand over mobile network? Any ideas appreciated- Dave- got any spare cams?
failing that send us your ph numbers and i will add to a text list. disclaimer......if it drops out b4 u get down dont blame me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well - souded like a good idea. Since the Middleton Point cam disapperaed a few years ago its hard to get an idea of whats goin on and the 1 1/2 hours of driving there and back is often the decider if H Island is looking sketchy. was wondering about Saturday but had domestics, skate park duties with the lad and an onshore lumpy SUP at the mid.

Looks like Thursday will be on - we need thefrontas to link in with the weekends like last winter.

seen Berts 105 Quad - looks good but not in the market at the moment - only tyre kicking


if I ever win the X lotto I'll be onto it!!

105 & 120 litre boards??? I can sail in 10 knots on an 82 litre board but i guess its good when you weigh 63kg Maris, have you thought about a Gym membership.....

no need for weight jackets down this way, besides body fat is both insulating and a very floaty so i'll keep throwing down those ice coffees and lovely warm bakery food. cant believe its come to 100l plus boards wow. day st impact zone does spring to mind though.

Hey Maris - I got your message on my phone and forgot to ring you back!!! Sorry mate...

I'll give Ben a call and get some details. We will all be down south (Victor) mid-July for the Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior event at Waits so if it's a goer we could hook up with you and suss the situation.

From my understanding you don't need a phone connection (although it helps). Swellnet can webcast remotely from Waitpinga Beach by just using Bigpond Next G wireless network so setting up a webcam from you deck Maris would be a breeze.

I'll get back to you....

forgot to mention Matson and Fredo are down the south coast with fantastic noodles pro junior thurs thru sun- waits/middleton. should b awsum towatch if u r down that way

maris said...

good news- Rush and Zub and ELMO we're in business with Webcam

Swellnet are isntalling a cam in middleton bay. hopefully it'll pan to cover day st, if not pretty close.

www.Swellnet.com.au is the baby of expat south aussie and guru swell forecaster (for redbull stormsurf etc) Ben Matson, frequent contributions by sa windsurf / surf fotog Fast Fredo so worth supporting. Victor swellent is only major swell/weather site that specifically gives windsurfing an occasional mention- eg last saturday.

i'll go back to sleep now

Fantastic news!!