Sailed Sandy Point - Shallow Inlet on Sunday. Epic Day trip.
3 of us left Melbourne 6.30am, coffee at fish creek 9am, on the inlet at 10am wind gusting 25kts WNW.
Half incoming tide, so NW bank exposed for an hour. Some fast runs on 6.2m reflex/ 90L AHD.
Mark and Paul had 7.0m O-drive/JP slalom101 & 6.0m Gator/SB ATOM110.
Some wild runs as it gusted to 34kts and chop increased, we all swapped rigs to have a go of the different gear.
Tide was going to be high, big current, had to move the cars up the dunes. Kept sailing high tide across the inlet flats (thought i was still in new caledonia). Exhausted 2.30pm, derigged behind the cars tide still rising, 3.30pm high tide - rear tyres & bumpers in water. Got out of inlet at 6.30pm, straight to fish creek pub for parmas and t-bones, home at 10.30pm. What a day!!
5 sailors at inlet side, who's coming down next time?
7.0 and 6.2m? Holy moley, they would've been way too big on the Yanakie side where we were sailing between roughly 11 am and 3 pm. I was on a 105L Tabou, mate was on a 84L JP. We both had
5.0m sails on and were definitely overpowered at stages (the wind was ridiculous around 1:30 - 2 when the band of rain came through...) Had some fantastic runs across from side-to-side (something I've always wanted to do), though there were a couple of lulls as we approached the Sandy Point side. It was gusty at times (particularly close to the Yanakie side, where the wind seemed to have been condensed as it funneled across the little bay there) but still eminently sailable on the whole. Had a blast, was still sore and buggered yesterday...
