If you have a smart phone I think this is a must have app, It's free and allows you to post a short 10 sec video of where you are and give some particulars and enable other to comment. You set the app up so you get notifications from people who post within a certain distance from you, basically a real-time location/weather report. You can also follow people, post to facebook and even get directions to where a report was posted from.

I've been using it for a while now and there are a few people out there in Seabreeze land that use it as well, but it would be good to get more of you on board so we can get good Aussie community going. It's nice to know where other are sailing, nothing worse then turning up and being the only one out or missing out on epic conditions only a short drive away. With the Weendy app we can know where others are sailing and how good it really is.

So, who's using Weendy?

^^ yup.

Love sailing where there is no mobile service anyway.

lotofwind said...

If its going off at your local,
I think the last thing you would want to do is tell 200 other people to get down there.
Best to just ring a couple of mates.

I like sailing with lots of people, Even kiters. I'm not a wave hog and don't want to keep a perfect session all to just myself. There's plenty of water out there for everyone to use, outside of an organized event you'd be hard pressed to get 20 let alone 200 windsurfers/kiters together at anyone time. I don't know what the kitesurfing community is like but windsurfers are very accepting of new people, on the east coast at least.

What I think is good about the app is if you are traveling you will be able to find spots you didn't know about and even catch up with some locals that might want a sailing partner for the day. You all know what it's like when you go some place new, What's it like?, Is there something I should know about? And will that surfer stab me because I'm on their break. I think it's a good idea but like everything else in this world, it's not for everyone...it's up to you if you use it.

I'm on it Jase. Good to read your reports but you should video for a bit longer, I always like seeing your spots
I hope heaps of people see my reports, personally I prefer to sail with lots of people rather than no one. I recommend the service and hope more start to use it. I live an hours drive from Botany Bay so if I'm going to jump in my car and go down there I want to at least know I have some chance of sailing if the conditions are marginal. In the past I have been skunked many times by crap reports but if there was someone actually on the spot that could have reported the live conditions then I might have been able to save myself the $5.00 in petrol as well as the $24.00 in tolls!!!!