Who's up for a down-winder tomorrow (Sat 6th) and doesn't mind a bit of thunder.. 
DJ
Forecast for Saturday
Winds: North to northwesterly 15 to 25 knots easing northwest to westerly 10 to
15 knots by afternoon. Seas: 0.5 to 1.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
DJ, I dont understand why my map doesnt show
what the BOM predicts.... I used to have alot
of faith in these maps ...but lately ???? 
Is it me ? maybe you can shed some light my way..
thanks Gorgo, I mean the ones on seabreeze
ie: graphs and maps.... www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/synoptic.asp?StateID=1&loc=MELB
this doesn't coincide with BOM.
Latest forecast not looking too promising.
Forecast for Saturday
Winds: North to northwesterly 5 to 10 knots tending westerly late morning then south to southwesterly at 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon. Seas: Below 0.5 metres. The chance of thunderstorms.
Looks like the Seabreeze Graphs were right.
Tomorrow there might be a nice clean wave at Grove on the mid to high tide. Or you could paddle on the Barwon All Welcome!
Phill
Agree with Paul,
Monday's looking promising at the moment,
save me a spot in the bay lineup.
Midday on MONDAY is looking juicy...
Forecast for Monday
Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots tending northerly 20 to 25 knots during the morning then tending north to northwesterly 25 to 30 knots around midday. Winds west to northwesterly later in the evening. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres during the afternoon.
Tomorrow (Monday) is looking perfect for a great down-winder.
I'm thinking 10am at Sandy to do the car thing.. and start from St Kilda at 10.30 for the first run down to Sandy.
After lunch some of us might do another run.. A mega down-winder from Rickets Point to Frankstone.. 
Any West-coasters coming up.. 
DJ
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds: East to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to northeasterly up to
20 knots during the afternoon. Seas: 0.5 to 1 metres. Local thunderstorms this
afternoon and evening with squalls above 35 knots possible.
I can't make it up. But are any west coasters interested in a down winder from North Shore to Limeburners ?? (Corio Bay). Just under 5km, so could do it twice if down wind conditions are good.
Simon
I'm in for StKilda to Sandringham. Will decide on the Frankston encore once we reach Sandy.
My car's covered in hail dents.. 
http://player.video.news.com.au/heraldsun/?HV_eMOZXbPf9HW3UlUA6gZPUKuLfP8ak
DJ
I have a dent free section down the center of my car where my 12' Glide was..
I can't believe my windows weren't smashed the hail was so big..
The sound was deafening.
DJ
,
How did it go today ? I did a 5km loop in Torquay, from Fisho's to Pt Danger, out to sea a little towards Barwon Heads, over towards the big sand dune, and back in.
It was a great paddle. 7 of us went down, Cammo, Paul, Cameron, Rosco, DJ, Alan and myself. I think we left pretty close to 11:00am from St Kilda. It was blowing about 20knotts - just enough to see a few white caps but just enough for all of us to get a bit of runner action. We met up at Green Point around 12:30 and then the storm hit so we got a bit of a taste of extreme downwinding action from there to Sandy - it was a lot of fun.
Did you get some good gusts down your way Simondo?
T'was a good one.. Once we got to Green Point the wind went ballistic.. 40-50 knots I reckon.. The run from there to Sandy was brilliant..
DJ
In that last shot, looks like Oliver is trying to locate the stragglers who got washed onto the rocks in the sudden wind change.
