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With the easterly winds and big surf there are not too many options on the mid north coast - northern rivers to sail.
I found this lake near Yamba/Angourie. The marked line is approx 2km long. The southern part of the lake is open however looks like access may be an issue.
Has anyone sailed here before, do you think it would work in an easterly?
Spent a few summers at Yamba but never sailed the lake. Apperently its very shallow and (mud) boggy in spots. Spoke to some of the local sailors and they say they head up to Balina for that sort of wind direction. You'll be alone in the lake, not even many boaties venture into the lake unless the're checking crab pots.
That town on the southern most red dot on your map (Wooloweyah) is probably the only launch spot. There is another access point, there's a road to a camping ground (roughly opposite the Blue Dolphin) that will take you to the Northern red Dot you've shown, I think its Goldings Street, it becomes a dirt road a little after the camping ground, dosn't show up on google maps, but its quite drivable.
Try and PM "swoosh" he's a local up that way.
I'm surprised Yamba's not under water ATM.
Yeah access ain't that great, but you can get down there. Thou I have never sailed in it.
Its pretty hilly and pretty steep around the lake, so I think it would be really gusty on the water, and last time I looked, the place where I was gonna launch from there was a lot of large submerged rocks that looked prime for breaking fins off.
I think it would be sailable thou, just depends how desperate you are. I think you could probably still sail of whiting beach in a easterly, shorter runs, but should be okay? But to be honest, I can't remember sailing an easterly in yamba.
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I live and sail at yamba, in a southeast and east winds we go to the peninsula just of Shores Drive in yamba. Theres a walkway between some houses that gets you to a small beach that you launch from.
You have to dredge out towards the river mouth until you get into the wind then you have a nice flat run between the point and the wall that is about 500m long.
Theres a gap in the wall that you can go though then it gives you about 1km long run in total but it is more tide affected and is probably running out really strong with all this rain.
Southerlys; Not very good (to much of wind shadow)
Southeastlys; are very good
Easterlys;surprising good take your pick of very flat water to bump and jump in the main river.
Northeast to northerly;exellent 2km of really flat water Can launch there instead of whiting beach if you wanted to (sometimes it has more wind than whiting beach)
Westerly;gusty very short run but sort of be fun in strong winds
There by myself or one other guy most of the time
Couldn't work out how to post image but on my user name there are images of where i'm talking about.
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The gap is for boats and has markers so its not hard to miss. Just be careful out in the main river if you break something you have limited places to get out of the river before getting swepted out to sea.
Im not a fan of sailing in the lake because of all the problems mentioned (mud, rocks near the shore, shallow patches and millions of jellyfish mainly in summer) But it is probably the best spot in a west wind around the yamba area.
thanks for the info everyone, it is another option to consider when the swell is up. Locateg, I think I know where you mean, it looked shallow over there when sailing in a northerly, but looking at the google earth picture looks good. Would never have thought of that run.
I used to sail out the lake abit back in the 80s, a few keen sailors used to live out there so we would sometimes sail there when pippy was out of control. wouldn't be to good with modern long fins though and the jellies were thick.
The sailing club at Harwood isn't to bad, log runs around the corner towards Browns rocks, some times still sail there on my longboard.
Over the next few days there will be water everywhere, I think we are in for a big flood. no time for sailing though,lots of stuff in the shed to move to higher ground
