There is none at all at this moment so could be nice to contemplate for a while the strongest wind you have been sailing ever.
Ideal will be attach Seabreeze wind speed graph for that day to proof it, or photo.
My recollection:
1.WIND 45-55 knotts about 3 years ago, Life Saver spot, Melbourne, when waves were up to mast top,
and next time at Sandy Point, water flat as usual
2.EQUIPMENT Board Fanatic 130 L, sail 5m KA - mast 400
3.EXPERIENCE complete disaster on Life Saver, I managed to flip sail on top of the only boy around
, but same wind and full enjoyment on Sandy Point
Winter Gale gusts to 60kts Warners Bay Lake Macquarie Caveman waveboard c 85ltres 3.2m 90's sail....rose coloured glass memories as it was 20 years ago.. only remember big ramps & jumps ( obviuosly not in the gusts...) . hanging on for grim death!I probably got flattened but I can't remember that..I do remember the board getting picked up and thrown downwind and not being able to waterstart as the sail was pushed flat onto the water sailing in similar conditions.
( news weather report that night..re strength)
Went sailing in a Westerly here once, it was ridiculously windy! The was so much windage on the board that as soon as you left the water everything was going skyward if you angled the windward rail up, jump or no jump; angle it down and you died. Had a look at the wind meter readings when I got home, saw peak was 65kts. Needles to say I basically sailed out, then back...you can't sail in that much wind...well enjoy it anyway (speed sailing maybe excepted).
Imo up to about 45kts is ok, anything over 40 is getting pretty un-sail-able in terms of doing tricks without massive repercussions as the board windage starts getting insane and weird things start to happen
The strongest winds I've sailed in were probably around 50 knots plus at Illawarra Lake. It was a massive winter westerly at Primbee. Used a 3.7m wave sail and a Bombora 260. Any time wind got under the board it flew up and ended in a huge crash.
tried to sail at sandypoint on that windy day a couple of years ago.
, 85lt board and a 4.2 was way tooooo much...
i think the wind was 40+,, so dont know how u had fun on a 5m and 130l board!!!
twas no fun 4 me
There is strong wind and there is solid wind.
I sailed a big botany southerly way back with 25-50 knots, very wild. I was on my 4.2m and seemed to cope.
I sailed in cervantes WA and the wind was a solid 30 knots, I mean solid no gusts no repreive. The wind meter wnt straight to 30 knots and didnt budge. I was struggling on my 3.5m.
I've had a couple of sessions in Maui on a 3.3 (I'm 90kg).
So a lot dependes on the consistency of the wind you are sailing, I reckon.
55knots gusting to 65. Happened about 5-6years ago at shearwater.
I'm knot exaggerating I'm sure haircut was there. This was back when I was fully into windsurfing.
One of my best windsurfing memories and scariest, I remember having no chance keeping the board on the water but once the board left the water the wind under the board thru me into a front flip crash everytime. And there was nothing I could do about it.
There was someone down there looking to sponsor me, I came flying into the beach and had to bail out from the board which then flew onto and across the beach and flipped over for 50m before ending up in the grass.
This was at low tide too.... Get the picture????
No sponsorship for Troy
Found a recording from 2009
www.bom.gov.au/inside/services_policy/public/sigwxsum/pdf/sigw0509.pdf
63knots
Also Lake Illawarra. Wouldn't call it sailing though. When you see the wall of spray approaching and you're in knee deep water, you get off, sink and sit on the sail and wait it out.
mine woud have to be about 40 knots but a super cold wind, was on a winter front, top of the water was blown off, i actually turned flat thats how dense the air was, was on a 4.2, too windy got bored went home
55 knot westerly at Marmong Pt on Lake Macquarie.74 lt board & 4.2 sail. Managed to sail for about 30 mins. Not much fun. I remember this day well as peto was out the same day a bit further downwind and lost his rig. Blown away. Remember that Peto?
Lake Illawarra has produced some of the strongest winds I've ever sailed in and I've been from east to west coast in search of good wind. The following video is from such a day, myself at 100kgs had to lay my 4.7 in the water and wait out the 40+ knot gusts on more then one occasion....Lake Illawarra rocks!
Doesn't look much like that but there was 35-45 knotss on that day ... too much for me back then .. so I took only my camera not the board...
The Gorge - Dougs Beach: 3.5 - gusting to 65 knts
South of France - Etange de Leucate: 3.2 - 70knts+, saw a 20 foot container roll over on the way home.
Lake Garda: 3.5 - gusting to 65 knts, who would have thought you could have 3 meter wind swell on a lake.
All of these were a case of survival sailing rather than anything enjoyable.
Mine was in about 95 at Wello when there was a cyclone to the north. Didn't have a wind metre but at one point I was planing while just holding the mast with one hand. Another run while planing was picked up and thrown 30ft sideways, felt so small after that. It became impossible to waterstart, as I held the mast tip the wind got under it and done a full pole-vault over over the board and the gear then tumbled across the water, had to derigg under water.
Driving home there were trees and power lines down and the news showed roofs blowing off houses, said it was 50kts with 65kt gusts, it was an experience won't soon forget.
IT ISN'T VERY WINDY IN YOUR VIDEO.
I have better things to do than convince you.
EDIT: Grrrrrr..... 3:30 - 3:50 He gybes. He stops clew first. He flips the rig. It takes him 15 seconds to get up to speed by pointing on a broad reach.
IT ISN'T VERY WINDY IN YOUR VIDEO
I'm with the ginger one here. No way is that anything other than mildly average. The way the water is moving, the way the spray (and lack of it) comes off the board, the way the dude is sailing, all of it shows - that is not very windy.
In my two years in northern NSW we have had some pretty windy days. Why one day it even blew a gnats nuts around. One day I saw a sombero blow off an old ladies head. One day is was so windy it was mildly unpleasant to stroll along the seafront with a baby in a pram.
Windy is when your VW camper blows onto its side in the night whilst parked at Tarifa. Windy is when there is solid spray you can't see through 3 foot above the water. Windy is when you can't stand on the beach because the sand is blasting the skin off your face, and then it starts hailing and actually draws blood on your cheeks.
I rode my bike south out of Cadiz once and had my knee down going along a straight road. The black on my bike leathers was sand blasted off to a rough suede look. One half of my bike looked about 10 years older then the other half. The road was actually closed, but I didn't speak spanish (officier).
Windy is when your 3.2m sail powers you sideways less than your board sends you upwards. Windy is when you open your car door and the wind bends the hinges so much that you have to open both front windows a smidge and tie a roof rack strap all the way through your car to keep the door shut for the next year.
Windy is when you see more than one truck on its side on the way home. Windy is when you get home and your shed isn't there anymore.
Windy is when 'Wow, its Windy' is top story in the nightly news.
Drive your car at 95 kmph and then put your head out the window, look forward and see how long before your eyes hurt so much you can't see and you can't actually breathe. That is a 50 knot wind.
Your video isn't very windy.