Southerly Buster Video Iluka Road Palm Beach Pittwater

[PittwaterPirate]

Hi This is a video I filmed today of the Southerly Hitting Pittwater Sydney NSW

I filmed it with my iPhone and I could barley stand up in the wind gusts !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4043jtUoSk

Cheers Ray

[Shaun]

Gday Ray,
Spent a night on a mooring there in a Sth'erly (no where near as strong as in your vid'), got as sicksick as hell:cry:

Checked out some of your other videos, I started a lawnmowing run on Northern Beaches in '83, sold it in the nineties & started tree work, suggest you get some gel gloves mate, I get pins & needles in my hands now whenever I use machinery.

cheers

[PittwaterPirate]

Iv been in the Mowing Biz for years
I had Carpal Tunnel Surgery on both hands about 10 years ago
Hands are fine these days
Cheers

[Miker]

Nice Ray,

I was out sailing on the 9th, and it was a glorious sunny day with decent westerlies.

10th, we went out on the ferry to the city, in the middle of that blow. There was a wave hit the bow of the ferry that washed over the top foredeck. We apparently were on the last ferry for the day, they cancelled them after that.

Huge fun.

[Oberon11]

My wind instruments on my boat on lake Macquarie recorded max gust of 64 knots !!!

[Dolphin]

John, was that about 2pm on Friday? I was watching Felicite and the spray was being picked up off the water. That happens when the wind is more than 50kts.
The house boat next to me lost 4 sheets of plywood because they weren't held down. Foolish, they knew it was coming for a good few days. There were about 3 or 4 boats had their furlers come open and shred the genoas.
I put an extra strop around the mast to the deck cleat just in case it gave way. All I lost was the bird stopper VB cord on the boom came undone.

[Jeremy]

John, was that about 2pm on Friday? I was watching Felicite and the spray was being picked up off the water. That happens when the wind is more than 50kts.

You mean like this pic I took on Friday afternoon at Botany Bay Yacht Club?

It wasnt raining at the time, the haze is the wind taking the crests off the tops of the waves.

I watched one boat sink and there was severe carnage on Kograh Bay (at least 5 boats ashore and about 10 dragged their moorings).

Jeremy