25-34 knots SW. Air temp 10 degrees! High tide all day! Raining most of the day! Snow forecast down to 900m! Wind chill factor off the scale!
I think this is one day I will be happy to go to work and watch the storm pass from inside a heated room. Yeah.... I know.... soft.......

Probably wise, it was bloody cold and nasty here today, t'will only get worst by the time it hits you guys

Yep. 30-40 knots SW. Actually SW is a bit too tight usually. WSW is closer to the ideal angle. The blocker is the tide. The 9am low tide is a pretty high one and the rest of the day the tide will be rushing in with the storm surge. This means that not much after 9am and there will be pressure waves on the course and a fast disappearing bank. By 11am it will be all flooded for the rest of the day. With the best winds forecast for after 10am it doesn't look like even the small window of the first few hours of daylight would be much good. I am considering it but at this stage, I don't think so.

sailquik said...

Wow! 62 knots gusting 72 knots at the prom this morning at 8am, SW. 10 degrees as well with wind chill 'feels like' 3.8 degrees!!. That would be 40+ knots at Sandy without a doubt. Wonder if anyone braved it?

And there I was thinking you were really brave I used to brag to people that "I know Sailquik and he sails when it's really really windy" Oh how the mighty have fallen

Worth checking out...

www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/weather/obs.jsp?graph=all_obs&station=85096

hardie said...

sailquik said...

Hardie, I am ashamed. . But it's not the wind that has me afraid....really....It's the COLD! Brrrrrrr......

I can relate to the cold issue, gets worse as I get older

Hardie, is that OLDER or SOFTER!!!!

At 10 degrees in 40 knots the wind chill takes the effective temp down to 4.6 degrees.

http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/calc/wind_chill.cfm

However, that I'm assuming is when you are dry. My wetsuit has a lyca protective layer that absorbs water. I imagine with evaporation you would be getting down to zero.

frant said...

sailquik said...

25-34 knots SW. Air temp 10 degrees! High tide all day! Raining most of the day! Snow forecast down to 900m! Wind chill factor off the scale!
I think this is one day I will be happy to go to work and watch the storm pass from inside a heated room. Yeah.... I know.... soft.......

Am I the only one who sees this for what it is. A nice piece of rationalization from someone who HAS to go to work today rather than go sailing. If you had your tongue any further in your cheek it would poke a hole in it. I however am sitting here with perfect speed conditions on the lake outside only because I do not have a working GPS, thus cannot show how great the conditions are. Whats temperature got to do with it?

No, really, it's the cold! Plays up with my old bones and arthritis.

Actually, I could have gone quite easily today. It's no use now though. The whole inlet is flooded. (Another good excuse)

I read on one weather channel that wet clothing increases wind chill effect by 20X.

May wrap a thermometer with a wet bit of neoprene next storm to find out.

You're all a bunch of big sissies, I'd kill for those conditions and a mega session at the Pit. When there's snow on the beach you might have an excuse for staying home but at 10 degrees C it's positively balmy!

You don't see 'em like this very often, even in Spring!!



Obviously I wasn't there but it would have had to have been at least a solid 40+ knots at the PiT!

russh said...

I thought i was reading a nannas knitting circle forum not big brave windsurfing speed record holders! Sounds like you all need a big mug of HTFU!

Yeah, Yeah. Soft as.... I know.
Just waiting to see all the sensational posts from all the hard men.........
Hey, you got a mug o' that handy?

yoyo said...

Maybe we are not as well insulated as you Roo

Some people call it fat, I call it strategic ballast placement!

Looks like someone braved the cold weather
www.gps-speedsurfing.com/default.aspx?mnu=user&val=34638&uid=229

Hmmmm. Interesting to see that Foxy only rates it as 25-35 Knots and that would tally pretty well with his performances in tight conditions and his sail choice. I guess that was very early in the day while there was still low enough tide for there to be a speed bank and before the storm developed to full noise. My builder neighbor said that by midday it was one of the wildest, windiest, coldest days for a very long time and concurred the wind direction was quite SW to SSW a lot of the time. He also said that when he went for a training run just before dark the tide was still up the entry road. I recon the sand spit would have had another good grooming.

sailquik said...

Hmmmm. Interesting to see that Foxy only rates it as 25-35 Knots

seems at odds with the Wilson Prom wind stats


By the way, how come Foxy does his best runs when no one else is there?