made it up today after being stuck in Gympie for a few hrs until the Bruce highway was opened. all good up here though no rain even abit of sunshine.
tom forecast looks good we shall see
if you are comig up drive carefully as there's lot of pot holes.

vando said...

made it up today after being stuck in Gympie for a few hrs until the Bruce highway was opened. all good up here though no rain even abit of sunshine.
tom forecast looks good we shall see
if you are comig up drive carefully as there's lot of pot holes.

.... well we will be expecting personal weather updates bro, see you on Thursday

alewi62 said...

We tried to get through late this afternoon after reading the highway was open. We were stopped at Matilda south of Gympie. So we turned around and came home. We will have another go tomorrow if the roads are open.

Bugger !

alewi62 said...

We tried to get through late this afternoon after reading the highway was open. We were stopped at Matilda south of Gympie. So we turned around and came home. We will have another go tomorrow if the roads are open.

Caboolture-Nannango-Biggenden-Childers-Burrum
Long way round I know but gets you around the Mary River and is a nice change from the boring Bruce Hwy

The highway is now open.
Kel, dont unpack just yet, you must be looking at the wrong forecast, and besides, I have the polar bears ready and I have picked the lemons.

no worries guys,

i know you've a long way to drive but it is a shame for sure, you both will be missed.

i think we will see the forecasts change quite a few more times leading up to the event. the rain has passed though and i'm certain we will be out on the water.

Alex the

grommet

Hi Mineral,WISH YOU WERE HERE.
That photo of Vando was taken just after I passed him. He is very untidy with straps hanging from his harness, and he needs a haircut.

mineral1 said...

hooray said...

Hi Mineral,WISH YOU WERE HERE.
That photo of Vando was taken just after I passed him. He is very untidy with straps hanging from his harness, and he needs a haircut.

So I noticed, very scruffy he looks

enjoying my holidays too much

great pics

Sunday sailed the Northen run, finnished with a BBQ. Vando cleaned up & it was a execllent event. Stand by for a full report later

Trip too Burrum up to Wednesday before event started

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i have started adding links to the wind wanderers facebook page for those that are interested in the developing forecasts.

anyone got an ark handy?

great stuff david!

really good to see you again, i've been given permission to add a sup to the collection also.

yep, i've got a 9'8 fish wave thruster being finished off at the moment by peter. flick him an email.

funny story, after using the sups at burrum my wife says "we should get one of these that's great fun".

8 year old daughter says, dad's already ordered one.

david won one of petes in the lucky draw at burrum previously.

i've used pete's at the caloundra bar with a 5,8 and it was loads of fun.

they are seriously light too. probably 6-7kg which for a board 9'+ long is impressive.

if you want it for flat water you get a flatter rocker single fin version.

all of the sups at burrum were the JP ones and everyone had a ball on those also.

seems sups these days come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. some with centreboards and every other fin/outline/rocker/weight/volume you can imagine.

we had a few different ones at burrum. i think the majority were the jp windsurf sups but they were used with centerboards removed in sup mode. they had a screw mast track we mistook as a vent plug a few times. silly windsurfers

having the trailer there made a big difference to the event. it was in constant use and i didn't hear one negative comment about the sups. pretty much the opposite. by day 2 nearly everyone that had used them had started talking about buying one.