I pretty much wrote off today and went for a surf this morning - nothing epic but had a 2-3' peak to myself on around the low tide at Collaroy. I like this break because it can hold a big SE swell and you can get some short but pretty nice right handers in front of the rock. Inconsistent and lots of sets closing out because of the eastery direction but quite ok - glassy this am and pretty warm (the water but a bit brown - close your mouth when duck diving)

Anyway - had sleep on the lounge and then opened the computer to find 15knots purportedly blowing at kurnell at 2:00pm and peaking to 18knots. With the swell around my first thought was that i missed an epic session at Wanda. Did anyone sail it?

I did sail yesterday in the SE off Long Reef (good to see some of the old faces back - anyone need a beer plumber?) It was on/off with some decent long gusts out the back so I was going most of the time on a 5.0. I did'nt like being "buzzed" by the kites though - why do they have to come within a meter of you to pass you! Yes i do get the fact that they were faster and getting more jumps but with 7-8 of them on the water it was getting busy. I gave up about mid morning but it looked like it was getting better! Waves were a but pot luck and not really enough wind on the inside to hold a decent top turn when DTL on-shore wavesailing. Except Brett and Matt managed a couple - maybe it is the twinnies! Next time.. Makaha regardless of how sketchy it looks - I will just run down the hill!

sorry for the ramble

Cheers Q,

Is EC reef pretty easy to find? Better than G? Rare to really fire but unreal when it does?

Sounds like an alternative to Wanda, Gerroa etc - I would like to check out a somewhere new!

cheers

In Jan I sailed at Corrimal with qwert and had a sick day, heaps better than gerroa when the surf is small. If Corrimal has wind I think it is better than gerroa. Reef break and a beach break at the one spot, you cant get much better than that.

Yeah what an end of DST present that was. Probably the best session of the season for sure, mast high sets, 20-25 kts, tide was good so you could sail right over the reef epic!

After you left qwerty I was making my way down the beach (less walk to carpark) and damn, it got heavy down there! Went down hard on a couple of bombs, no idea how the gear survived haha.

EC reef launch, is it next to the holiday caravan park (north or south side) or by the corimal seapool? or further south again?

Been keen to try but never seen anyone out there, all summer been driving after work from W'Gong home to Cronulla to sail Wanda, should have tried corimal or belambi then gone home.....

Got a sail in this morining thanks to the sun being up early at Wanda, better than Sat morning but still to onshore for decent wave to sail in, decent swell though for some occasional jumps. Only got 2 semi decent waves in 30mins shame I missed it yesterday in the Ne'er.

It was good to feel slightly overpowered on a 5.0 for a change this morning as its been a while....

Thanks for clearing up the launch spot, I'll be packing the gear in the car from now and taking it to work when the weather looks like it might be on and give it a go. With DST changes in effect the sun goes down way to earlier so its either a early morning session so finish before 8:30 or try hit it about 4 for an hour if i'm lucky...trying to get to wanda in the arvo is pretty much dead now till after winter

Brien said...

East Corrimal sure is a nice set up but you have to take into account that from my experience it suffers terribly from the same crappy wind that most of the Gong's beaches get when the wind goes too north. I saw a few days this season where the wind line sits out to sea with just gusty crappy wind wafting through the break. I have never seen it at mast high, but I am sure it would pretty sick.

You are dead right Brien it does suffer from that sometimes if the prevailing wind is a bit more NNE or Nth, more so later on in the season it seems. Sometimes it can be quite frustrating as you can see wind 400m out to sea but just not getting into the beach. Probably happened about 5 or 6 times this season, it does often swing back NE late in the arvo though....just when you get back from Gerroa

Yeah I was on a 4.7 from 2pm-ish fully powered all arvo. Bellambi is basically the only wind meter that bears any resemblance to the wind near the coast in the gong. The Airport (Albion Park) etc are all basically useless.