After a DW drought here in Melbourne lately it looks like we have a couple of good days coming up this week.. Waa-Hoo! ..
DJ
Forecast for Wednesday
Winds: Northerly 15 to 20 knots increasing to 20 to 30 knots during the morning and reaching 35 knots later in the evening. Seas: 0.5 to 1.5 metres increasing to 2 metres by the afternoon.
Forecast for Thursday
Winds: North to northwesterly 30 to 40 knots tending westerly 20 to 30 knots by the afternoon then decreasing to 20 to 25 knots during the evening. Seas: Up to 3 metres decreasing to 2 metres during the afternoon.
I'm thinking 10am at Sandy on both days and then head up to St Kilda for our very own Melbourne Maliko run (St Kilda to Sandy) ..
DJ
Sounds great,
Wednesday got one at school, one at kinder and I may be able to get the other one looked after.
Thursday I am good all round
OK wednesdays clear as well.
How about meeting at the cerberus or even ricketts to give us a liitle more distance to paddle??? Just an Idea
I'm in for both and the longer the better, happy with Ricketts but whatever suits all. This will be good!!! Just looked up StKilda to Ricketts, it's about 17 or 18 k, should be comfortably under two hours.
So Jonathan and I will meet at ricketts at 930 then onto Sandy to leave there at 1000 then stkilda departure at 1030. See you there
Dave
Anyone doing the DW'er with us today we plan to start at St Kilda at 12 noon.. It's looking good..
DJ
How are the DW paddles going?? Yesterday & Today ? Wind did not seem to come through until after dark yesterday.
Might be a whisker too much west today also.... unless you start up at Williamstown / Newport.
OK, enough of the teasing !!!
If you keep up the teasing, you'll be at risk of not seeing the photos & stories on here !!
Yesterday was great.. here's a couple of pictures from the start with Jonathan with his SurfRace, Dave with his Pin and Luke and I with 14' Naish Glides.
Today was an early one and here's a few pictures from the start.. I took some vid on both days and I'll get around to posting it soon.
Once we got to the end today Pete drove us back to our cars.. Dave climbed in to the back and had to lay on the wood that Pete had inside.
I noticed a couple of Pete's new boards that he'd just made for Kite boarding/tow surfing.. Nice or what..
DJ
Here's a short vid from the last two days DW'ers.
It was too much hassle picking the best bits out and I rushed making this vid.. It wasn't really that good anyway.
I'm mostly just testing different camera angles.. I had my GoPro on my bicycle helmet.
DJ
I just saw todays forcast.. Another day, another down-winder..
Anyone else up for it to make it three in a row?
DJ
Forecast for Friday until midnight
Winds: Northwesterly 15 to 20 knots increasing to 20 to 30 knots around midday then decreasing to 20 to 25 knots by early evening. Seas: 1 metre increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres around midday