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honda900
10-04-2008, 08:28 PM
to all the Top of morton regulars,

How good is the inner freeman channel Do you get surf across it? Easy to get through?

whats the best and safest way round the top?

Have marked a couple of lines one in red and one in black on the image.

Regards
HOnda

Fish Guts
10-04-2008, 08:30 PM
where are you leaving from ? easier to go around combie around the corner that way. what size boat do you have ?

kingtin
10-04-2008, 08:40 PM
Stick to the black line but a word of warning..............if there's been strong Northerlies for a day or two, the breakers may roll off the banks and onto Kianga and Combyuro for up to 48 hrs after. I've had a calm day when I couldn't get through after a blow two days before, but that's very rare.

kev

honda900
10-04-2008, 08:40 PM
Fish Guts,

probly leave from manly boat harbour, have just plotted roughly the course and its on 10k (round trip) further than leaving from red cliff believe it or not. so figure head out, cross to morton and follow it all the way up.


So you think the black line is Ok on a falling tide?

Yalta 555HC

Regards

HOnda

kingtin
10-04-2008, 08:43 PM
Fish Guts,

probly leave from manly boat harbour, have just plotted roughly the course and its on 10k (round trip) further than leaving from red cliff believe it or not. so figure head out, cross to morton and follow it all the way up.


So you think the black line is Ok on a falling tide?

Yalta 555HC

Regards

HOnda

Black line it is. Are you on the south side? If not, a straight line from Nudgee crosses less "disturbed" water, than any other route, in my experience.

kev

BAR UP
10-04-2008, 08:45 PM
When you go around the corner at Combyuro stay about 250mts off the beach & you will be right. The Freeman out wide is like a coastal bar.

honda900
10-04-2008, 08:51 PM
Yep, on the southside, the trip to the harbour in redcliffe is a good 30-minute run in the car and wont save much in the way of time or fuel, so think I might follow the attached route, 64ks one way.

Regards
Honda

-spiro-
10-04-2008, 11:20 PM
You could go from Bribie. It's closser and if you unsure about the weather it's a shorter slog back than going all the way to Redcliffe

BR65
11-04-2008, 04:50 PM
better to put in at Bribie - Spinnaker sound, good ramp, sandy beach adjacent, and if the weather turns nasty Id rather be spending the time driveing home in the car than bashing across the bay.
Straight line to Combi and just hug the shore line a couple of hundred meters out, youll be right. Can get a bit nasty on a run out tide against the North easter, but its not like a bar break or anything, just pressure waves, occassionally cresting that you need to watch out for
cheers
brian