Sunday blergh

Hello Friends,

0900: Dee Why not exactly pumping but not absolutely flat either.

How’s your Sunday shaping up? Okay I trust. If you can’t get down to the beach today, not to worry. As anticipated it is marginal. Dee Why had a few bods bobbing around up the beach from the SLSC, but as the picture shows, it was distinctly uninspiring. Throw in SSW wind of around 10-15 kts and dull grey skies and you have a set of conditions requiring great keeness to work.

Here’s the Bureau’s call for Sunday:
Sunday until midnight: Wind: S/SE 15/20 knots, increasing to 20/30 knots during the morning, easing to 15/20 knots in the evening. Sea: rising early to 2 to 3 metres, abating to 1 to 2 metres in the evening. Swell: E/NE 1 to 1.5 metres turning SE 1 to 2 metres.
Monday: Wind: SE/E 5/10 knots, tending NE 10/15 knots.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: S 1.5 to 2 metres.

The forecast models show the same general outlook as the Bureau (hardly surprising as everybody’s using the same basic data).  But they also project the likely period and on that front the news is fairly ho-hum. The current 7 second stuff we’re seeing in the Sydney region looks set to continue through Monday. Around about Tuesday, the primary direction looks set to swing a bit more to the east and as the average height drops, the period could push up a touch. Consequence? More punyness I’d say.

At the moment, it looks as though the Sydney region’s best hope for a wave of any consequence will be from around Thursday on – at beaches with ENE exposure. One of the models (virtualbuoys) reckons Thursday morning could have light offshores and 3 metres of 8-9s ENE windswell… that’d be nice!

Go well with your day!

LNT: Rock n’ roll No.1’s

According to our poll on your favourite music genres, the hands down winner is Rock n’ roll. I’d dearly love to know what the RealSurf audience’s all time top tunes are, but since I haven’t polled on that question, I thought it might be worth looking at what could be found in the way of lists online. And whadya know… there are a few…

American music mag Rolling Stone’s RS 500 greatest songs of all time puts Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone at number one. And they put the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction at number two.

I had a look around for a similar list of Australian rock songs and came across this entry in Wikipedia. The expert panel picked the Easy Beats timeless Friday on my Mind.

Want to suggest some great music for late night? Please use the form below…

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Narrabeen Rpt

Um,……pretty windy & extremely tiny

Audio: Phil Jarratt talks about new Kelly Slater book

For The Love cover

I was listening to Radio National when an interview with Phil Jarratt came on. I scrambled around for some cables and managed to get part of it recorded (see below). Jarratt is talking about the just-published book he helped Kelly Slater write and he throws in a few tidbits (eg Slats’ interesting theory about homogenized milk) to get the interest up. The book’s called For the Love, it retails in the US for USD35 and it sounds kinda interesting. Should be some pretty nice pics too…

Phil Jarratt interviewed about new Kelly Slater bio

Publisher site | Kelly Slater wikipedia entry | Radio National online

For the Love By Kelly Slater

with Phil Jarratt

Introduction by Jack Johnson
9 x 10-3/4 in; 192 pp ; 200 color photographs
Hardcover
Published in September, 2008
ISBN 9780811862226
ISBN10 0811862224

Dire Straight Handers.

On shore breeze affected mush burgers from Bronte to Bondi today. A few out at Tama but seem to be doing more talking than surfing. A dozen or so out at Bondi with lobster tans (burn) so I reckon they’re pommy back packers. Say no more.

Early Riser call for Sunday

Hello Friends

This is my early-riser call for Sunday morning surf prospects… it was created late last night, so your mileage may vary!

We had light SE to SW winds last night, but the Bureau’s call for this morning is for the wind to be S-SE at 20-30 kts, gradually easing to 15-20 by this evening. Swell as I write this is about a metre from the SSE at an unimpressive 7 seconds. Sadly, it;s pretty much the same up and down the NSW coast and so therefore I don’t expect any real variation from the forecast models’ call – ie, 1.5 metres at about 8sec from the SSE.

Weather should be a near repeat of Saturday morning, with the odd shower and morning drizzle easing up as the day goes along.

I’ll be along later this morning with a pic and an update on the conditions…

Go well