Benny, Carantoc, and I headed south to Beautiful South West Rocks where a 20Knot+ WNW was predicted. Unfortunately PhilSWR had to work this day but we made sure the wind didn't go wasted!!!

yeah , nice vid.

Looks great! How choppy is it? Looks like a good angle .

I always wondered what the SWR stood for!
Beautiful spot!

Nice work. Makes me miss SWR. Not too often you have a good westerly to work with there. This was SWR approx 18 years ago but had a touch more south in the wind. Barry's my father.
Cheers
Marty

Was the video shot at Trial Bay?

Was indeed a beautiful day. 5.5 m2 all day - honking in the gusts, slogging in the lulls.

I think choppy is a relative term, I though it was pretty smooth for the wind, plenty of places around here are a lot worse. There is no bounce or backwash in the chop, it all comes from the same direction and is quite predicable.

Sunny, clear shallow warm water and a golden sand bottom means I pretty well sailed around all day just looking down. The ripples and shadows on the bottom are pretty trippy.

Long runs with sandy beach 50m downwind all the time, 4 foot water depth, just a few people out, elevated look-out in the wind shadow to watch from, grass rigging area, showers in the camp ground - it definitely is an under-rated place to sail.

Unfortunate that it isn't like that 5 days a week.

Back in windsurfing's boom times tons of people windsurfed at SWR. There was a windsurf/catamaran hire business. During Christmas time there could easily be over twenty to thirty out. Winter westerlies had a crew of around ten, many came down from Coffs.

The bay back then was bigger than what it is now. The pocket of the bay is silting up. The amount of silting can be visualised by looking at the boat speed signs. They cover an area that is now sand but used to be water. Well spaced NE swell wrapped around the point into the bay.