Autumn fourteen

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Mon May 26, 2014 8:51 am

it's been small but consistent.

good quality due to favourable inshore bathymetry.

Bathymetry trumps almost anything else in this sandbank dependent corner of the globe.
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Tue May 27, 2014 11:17 am

steve shearer wrote:
Bathymetry trumps almost anything else in this sandbank dependent corner of the globe.
the truth.

Bathymetry is an element swell forecasters/ reporters like swellnet cannot quantify too. They read wave heights and wind with no idea of a local intricacy like Bathymetry ... it's why trying to tell someone on the goldy or at ballina what the waves are like in a 'dawn report' from an office in sydney will never catch on and be taken seriously.

This bank i've been on, scored it so ridiculously oily & fun just now, with 3 other blokes. From out the back bank into the sand every set. Lefts & rights. Must be 100 metre rides, few shoulder high ones around in among some lulls.

yet the dawn report is '1-2 ft don't bother'. Can't complain if it keeps the crowds away, huh? haha
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by Donweather » Tue May 27, 2014 11:31 am

You must have sent all he maps and sups to my bank the. This morning Braithy as there was a thousand of the cvnts where I was surfing. Still scored a few from underneath them but and yeah the banks are bullshit long at the moment. I must have ridden 20-25 waves from our the back to the shore this morning.

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Tue May 27, 2014 11:34 am

Bathymetry and local wind and tide effects are the tools of the savvy surfer.
The advantage is soon lost if you start describing it online.

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Tue May 27, 2014 11:37 am

lol ... yeah, there were no sups where I was Don.

the surface was so oily, I couldn't tell where the waves were breaking until they were practically on me. a nice problem to have.
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Tue May 27, 2014 11:42 am

alakaboo wrote: The advantage is soon lost if you start describing it online.
A little debatable but yeah mostly I agree.

Knowing little subtleties in swell direction and its effects is a local knowledge thing outsiders would rarely grasp. And like right now I think it was el rancho who said, from lennox to straddie there are no real bad banks at the moment. So everywhere is basically good which means there's enough coastline for everyone to get theirs.

It's more in the leaner times, where you don't want people know there's banks about at certain parts of the tide. imo
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Tue May 27, 2014 12:03 pm

yet somehow Sunday morning, there were three guys out with flawless headhigh peelers.
I snapped of this sequence and swapped rods for board.

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Tue May 27, 2014 12:25 pm

I'd give that a 4/10

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Tue May 27, 2014 12:27 pm

are you the guy doing the report?
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Tue May 27, 2014 12:30 pm

Just yanking your chain.

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Tue May 27, 2014 12:37 pm

roger that.
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by Donweather » Tue May 27, 2014 12:39 pm

steve shearer wrote:are you the guy doing the report?
LMAO!!!

He gave it a 6/10 this morning Steve. Would you agree? What size was it this morning down your way Steve? It looks to have come in a little under expectations this swell?

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Tue May 27, 2014 1:15 pm

it would not be humanly possible to fish while watching those things go down with a few out.

NOT POSSIBLE!
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by steve shearer » Tue May 27, 2014 1:20 pm

correct Braithy.

as soon as I saw that set I was out there like a rat up a drainpipe.

Sunday fcuking morning!

DonW, he gave it a six and the day of the Year a seven. Guy's a clueless clown.

It was good, DOH, very inconsistent and crowded as all fcuk on the points.
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by el rancho » Tue May 27, 2014 1:50 pm

everywhere is good at the moment.
with these light winds/clean swell, if you've had spare time and haven't found some uncrowded waves you're blowing it.

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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by Cpt.Caveman » Wed May 28, 2014 10:17 am

You weather officionados out there, whats the long range prediction do you think?

I need to decide if getting into golf is a good option...
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by crabmeat thompson » Wed May 28, 2014 12:08 pm

Cpt.Caveman wrote:
I need to decide if getting into golf is a good option...

I've been pondering this very question myself.
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Re: Autumn fourteen

Post by alakaboo » Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:20 pm

steve shearer wrote:are you the guy doing the report?
thermalben on Swellnet wrote:our old Ballina reporter Blair recently picked up a new job that had him rostered on to early shifts, so we've got a new guy Levi doing the reports.

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