If there's enough water I'll join you. The wind is now forecast into Saturday so that monkey might be off your back 
Finally had a sail, REALLY gusty. Started with 6.6 for one run and went down to 5.0 and was still maxed out in the gusts. Sailed on Moulting lagoon, shallow, dirty amd weedy so I used the 24 fangy on the naish and the board was too big so went down to the f2 and a 20 Delta but was having loooong spinouts in the choppy sections. Best was only 28 knots, most of the time trying to stay in control in the gusts.
Wowee, wowee, wow,wow. I thought we had dirty, gusty, floooky wind down here lately.
That look's taxing.
Welcome to paradise ......................
I went out first up with the 125 litre Blast and a 5.3 wave sail sacked right out for power, went from overpowered to couldn't handle the big holes in the wind so came in and set up the GO and went back out with the 5.3, ran out of power again in places so came in and changed to a 5.5 freeride sail. This went ok till I got blown off the water as the tide dropped. John pulled the pin when it blew real hard as he left his 4.5 at home, I'd had enough and Mark didn't even bother rigging up. We left Adam chasing 2s of glory in the flatter water as the tide dropped and another unknown gentleman who was blasting around on wave gear. Till tomorrow ............
What a difference a day makes. Stunning gentleman's sailing conditions at Sandstone today for John and myself first up with Mark and Tony showing up a bit later and Adam and Jonno much later catching the last of the tide. Plenty of wildlife to dodge with John managing to hit eagle rays with a good crash twice in the one day. Tony nailed one later as well. Bring on Friday
More stunning gentlemen's sailing conditions today at Sandstone. The wind dropped back to around 14-15 knots so it was time to get the big sails and big fins out again. I sailed with John for a couple of hours before Mark, Adam, Jeff and JV Jonno showed up for a late session. Wind was a bit up and down in the end as it slowly dropped out and I had to get home because mummy had me on a timetable. Another classic day with warm, clear water and sunny skies and eagle rays
I don't know why it won't stay rotated after I edited it but that's 20-25+ knots about 1 1/2 -2 nm across and bugger all chop but shallow and weedy in some places though easy to avoid. I managed to hit bottom but the fangy fin is more than up to the job.
They've got some nice sailing here in Tassie and a friendly lot of sailors too.
Man alive, that's nothing like what Sandstone looks like in 25 knots, lovely!
Hey Sandstoners, check the forecast for next week. These mid-week SE blasts seem to be never ending, lucky we've got weekends to rest up
Yo Sandstoners, talk about March Madness. This has been the most constantly windy month at GB ive encountered. 16 of 25 days on the water, so far.
My body doesnt STOP aching. Tennis elbow is going rank. But i do luv using 7.5 instead of 9.5. Rack em up for another fun week!
Dear Paddles.........................................................
Nah, got nothing nice.
No friendly sailors at Sandstone at the moment Pete.
Got to go and upload my track from yesterday.
Think I might have got into double figures.......maybe.
My mum used to tell me the same thing Bradley .............. "if you've got nothing nice to say ............ then ................"
There was this bloke who used to come sailing with us a while back ........................ I think his name started with D ............................ 
There was ayoung
There was an old man from Sandstone
Who always was told to stay home
He said "it's high tide and south east and Im going to tame the beast"
So now he sleeps on his own
Dear me Dag, you can take the boy from Bribie .................. but you can't take the Bribie from the boy
Another cracker light wind morning at Sandstone. I could only sail early so stuck with it for just over an hour till the fin was touching the bottom and I got scared. The eagle rays are still swimming around and a lady warned me she saw sharks earlier but it was too much to resist. The big GO 155, Tony's dodgy formula fin cut down to 60cm and a 9m NCX did the trick. The Pope dropped in on his way home from getting his sail back from the repairers (eagle ray attack from last week) and was going to sail Bongaree on the outgoing tide, the wind was starting to come in nicely for him when I drove home.
Hi guys, brutal session at GB this arvo. Wind was 18-25kt,fun enough with 7.5lion. But the chop was totally outta control. Couldnt hold down either RB. In the air more than on the water. Funny as, full noise slammin the 380 phantom across the chop when the centreboard just drops all the way down while im in the straps, powered to the max.BOARD INSTANTLY RAILS THEN GOES SKYWARD.....BIG STACK. Spray flying for about 80m!! Paddles, think i found my RB limit today.
Back for more 2moro!!!
Yeah, I imagine you have. It was bloody windy here this arvo, I might sneak down for another quick high tide sail in the morning and hope it's calmed down a bit.
Dunno if anyone's following the B2G but Blackjack is off Indian Head doing 20-24 knots in just over 8 hours from the start, what a sailing weapon a 100 footer is.
There was a live feed from a gopro at the back of the boat earlier and thing goes so fast downwind with a big 'aso' out the front that the main is basically closehauled because the apparent wind must be almost straight from the side in those 15kn SE at lunchtime.
Lovely outgoing flatwater session this morning
pope on 9.5 Ezzy and ahd - new light wind solution with big fin
paddles on his new favourite toy GO155 big fin and 8.5 ncx
max - first day sailing at sandstone on Bic 7.8 and giving the old F2 sx slalom a thrashing
i had fun with 8.5ezzy lion and the old freeformula 168
mark turned up late and was enjoying the extra wind
cheers Jeff
I really should have been working or studying, but The Pope rang to say Sandstone was looking good and I couldn't resist. Blue skies and clear water with maybe 16kn ESE wind made for nice long runs from down in front of the mangroves on the point right out to over the drop. A perfect day at Sandstone is a 7.5m day and this was it, 7.5 sails with 56cm race fin on the big GO. A few bumps early but it smoothed right off as the tide turned and was as fun as windsurfing gets dodging the dugongs, eagle rays and sand banks, heaps of fish and even a little sharky poo. Adam showed up late after fluffing around a bit and ran out of water. Good tides this week so hopefully similar conditions tomorrow.
Last sail in Tas today, had a great time over here. Today's session wasn't anything to rave about due to my choice of gear but i got some rigging practice...
Water wasn't too cold either. Forecast looks good for the trip across the ditch home.
Great day at Sandstone. Lots of big gear and pretty consistent wind. Some shiny new Wallys and smiling faces on them. I think there were 9 boards and 1 kite on the water at one stage.
All the cool SS kids were there, "All of them"!!!!
Except Pete W of course.
