No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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Back down to 3mm... I was about to gather 2 of every animal.

[MrMik]

no jet-skis allowed at the Point, not easy to get a tinnie out the boat channel when it's ten foot.

How about something like an IRB with outboard motor and surfboard rack, would that be legal and would it be safe-ish?

Like this, plus a good motor or two: http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/redfern/ ... 1057423906

[Beerfan]

Probably less dangerous to just paddle out.

[crabmeat thompson]

I've been gorging myself stupid. Morning offshores, was still 4ft at a secret little beach/ headland y'day. Went down there and cherry picked some waves while a mate was shooting some pros going cray-cray. then scored some of the cleanest, punchiest 2ft barrels this morning. was the first one out and had it to myself for nearly an hour before it got ran over by the school holiday crew.

... been ocean paddling every arvy on the glass offs. Caught about a million waves 'til it was an hour past dark last night on the racing sup. couldn't lift the fork to my mouth last night to eat dinner.

autumn might have just redeemed herself this last fortnight.

[steve shearer]

No big waves off this one Tonks.

But a cascading series of S swells ahead. Get your specs in and log some hours at the Point.

[crabmeat thompson]

punchy little ones this morning.

still picking sand out of all my holes an hour later.

[Donweather]

You chaps still calling solid 8-10ft swell from this Tasman Low? EC has it as a real coast hugger. Me thinks you might actually get more swell from the current large high/trough (long fetch) in the Tasman as we speak, rather than the low itself.

http://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/chart ... and%20mslp

[steve shearer]

Nah, it's a lemon but I'm happy because the glorious autumn banks we had copped a raping from that last S swell so as long as this event isn't too severe they'll be on the rehab program.

[Donweather]

Hmmmm Byron buoy is showing some surprising S'ly swell.

[steve shearer]

Looks solid this morning. The buoy data that is.

[Skipper]

ooh yeah, 11 plus metres was the last reading off the Sydney region one last night Steve. It then went awol.
Just like a couple of errant naval ones i had to retrieve after they'd bobbed and drifted off their position round gillian's island on the particularly high tide and rather fresh southerly. They both ended up just west of Pinchgut, north bound at a blistering pace despite their chain and mooring block, and in the way of what few ferries were left.
Dragging them back across in 30-40knot southerly effectively anchoring one side of a pesky and unwieldy 7.5 m single screw with a pissweak 250hp inboard diesel was a comedy to behold. But no one, really, no one would have been watching. 2 hours later i had them both lashed, one each side and safely back in the compound.

May '74 revisit? Or too soon to call.

[steve shearer]

you're a man amongst .......

Sounds heavy Skip, love your work.

[Hatchnam]

what was it like inside the harbour skip? any of the spook spots breaking? was grotto point working?

would love to have finished up early today. would have been good to have seen the chaos off bare island bombie and around botany bay NP.

[MrMik]

I like the look of this weather map: http://www.met.gov.fj/aifs_prods/0990.jpg

[Beanpole]

30 guys out at Neilson Park they said on the radio this arvo.

[Skipper]

what was it like inside the harbour skip? any of the spook spots breaking? was grotto point working?

would love to have finished up early today. would have been good to have seen the chaos off bare island bombie and around botany bay NP.

like one of those above ground clarke pools with a heap of fat kids doing bombs. I'm out again tomorrow night, might sneak a look on dusk but with so much wind it's just a hideous cauldron. A tempest.
i did pick up a kayak, my second one within a year, which got washed up into the compound from where i work. I'll post an ad to see if someone's missing it. Otherwise...a paddle here and there or onto gumtree.

30 guys out at Neilson Park they said on the radio this arvo.

i was thinking of heading over on low tide, heard the same report beanie. maybe tomoz. i'm just keen to try out my new f bomb.

[Kunji]

what was it like inside the harbour skip? any of the spook spots breaking? was grotto point working?

would love to have finished up early today. would have been good to have seen the chaos off bare island bombie and around botany bay NP.

Balmoral point and shorey were breaking. Dobroyd head. Fairlight lefts all breaking as well as a few out the opera house.

[Slobadan Madicubich]

The mysteries of weather.
Seems like the term ECL isn't quiet right for the current system as it was under more influence from a high centred between Adelaide & Melbourne.
Looking at yesterdays map on bom the center of the low was 1008, the isobars weren't that close & the centre wasn't small although I guess the easterly feed had a fairly long fetch [I didn't check any other maps] the system doesn't have an intense look to it until the predicted reform over sw vic.
The trailing high to the sw had a centre of 1030.
I assume coastal damage would have been worse if the pressure had have been lower as it would have resulted in a higher sea level.