14 days left!
Hello Friends,
Usually I like to start my reports with a compact assessment of the conditions. But after tossing and turning last night, I’ve decided I’m going to depart from that practice for the next two weeks. We’ve come close to making the crowdfunding target, but I was thinking that it’s like we’re still in the barrel. Our line is looking pretty solid, but there are no guarantees we’ll make it out. Although we have pledges for a touch over 8K, if we don’t reach the target it’ll just be a number in a dream. It shimmered before us and then it disappeared. That’s because if we don’t reach the target, we do not collect a cent. The pledgers aren’t charged. Nothing happens. And we’re right where we were before we started. Naturally in such an eventuality I’ll put my thinking cap back on and try to come up with something else, but gee, I’ll be thinking about how it woulda been so nice to have made the section…
I was very pleasantly surprised to wake from my tossing and turning to find that Huey has arranged some fun looking little lines for the early risers. Swell’s coming from the SSE at about 1.3 metres on average with a period around the 9 second mark.
Wind was light and is expected to stay out of the nw to north all day. It is set to pick up though, with the Bureau saying we’ll have 15-20 kts by lunch.
Tide will hit the high at 1100, so getting in earlier is looking the go – per usual.
Outlook according to the models is for this little pulse to fade tomorrow and then to come up again for Friday (as they’ve been calling for days now). The Bureau says the wind will be S-SW early before going around to the NE later. If they’re right, we could maybe see up to a couple metres of straight south at a wind swellish 8 sec or so.
Here’s hoping!
Go well with your day and keep on smilin’!
Forecast issued at 4:11 am EDT on Wednesday 9 October 2013.
Weather Situation
A high pressure ridge is strengthening over the western Tasman Sea. The winds along New South Wales coast will turn northerly during Wednesday as the high moves to the northeast and they will increase during Thursday ahead of a strong and gusty southerly change developing on the south coast in the afternoon or evening. This change is expected to extend to the central coast overnight and to the far north coast on Friday morning.
Forecast for Wednesday until midnight
- Winds
- Variable below 10 knots becoming northwesterly 15 to 20 knots early in the morning then tending northerly 15 to 25 knots in the middle of the day.
- Seas
- Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the morning, then increasing to 2 metres by early evening.
- Swell
- Southeasterly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres in the early morning, then decreasing to around 1 metre by early evening.
Thursday 10 October
- Winds
- North to northwesterly 15 to 25 knots.
- Seas
- 1 to 2 metres, decreasing below 1.5 metres around midday, then increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres by early evening.
- Swell
- Northeast to southeasterly around 1 metre.
Friday 11 October
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Winds
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Northerly 20 to 25 knots shifting south to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots during the early morning then becoming southeast to northeasterly about 10 knots during the afternoon.
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Seas
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1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the afternoon.
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Swell
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Northeasterly around 1 metre, tending southerly 1.5 to 2 metres during the morning
