I throw a straw in the air, check out what the ants are doing and then if it looks good start annoying the missus until she tells me "why don't you go fish'n and get out of my hair".
Seriously though I try to use all the info at hand, I have noticed that Seabreeze updates their charts quite regularily and their wave heights appear to be closer to the Hmax of the Wave Rider Bouys - I am refering to the one at Mooloolabah. I guess the issue is if you look at boating weather forecasts they cover an enourmous area - Double Island Point to Point Danger is a huge area nad the difference in conditions between the two can be vast.
And even Seabreeze refers to the "Sunshine Coast" - what area does this cover, I have been out on days where it has been pretty ordinary off Mooloolabah but my mate was fishing off Noosa and didn't have the same conditions.
I recall days past when we used to phone BOM and get a recorded message that gave different wind speeds, both wind and wave direction and wave heights broken down into about 10 different regions within this all encompassing Di to PD but then technology raised its ugly head and we are expected to accept a much reduced service covering this huge area I know you cant get weather predictions correct all the time, after all it is a prediction but surely there must have been a lot of local input into the old forecasts compared to now.
How do we get this service back.
Seabreeze sure got it wrong yesterday we got pounded.
But as most people are saying use a combination of a few different sites and at the end of the day stick your head out of the window before hooking up the boat and make a decsion on the current conditions.
Thats normally what I do sometimes it works some times you'll get a pounding.
Cheers Axl
You need to remember Scalem that Coastalwatch is primarily a surfing website. 3ft to a surfer is a lot different to a boaties 3ft. A 3 ft wave when surfing will be overhead so a boatie would probably call it for 2m.Originally Posted by Scalem
I elected to listen to swell predictions found at Coastalwatch http://www.coastalwatch.com/swell/fo...ts&location=10 and stayed in the bay, looking for fish at the 4 beacons. But I heard some radio chatter channel 21 where somebody double hooked up on HOO. Must be diehards who don't care about 2 meter swells, unless they caught them in slighly sheltered waters... Left me wondering if I had taken the chance and fished offshore instead. NUP! No way! I can wait for better weather!
Some discrepancy I found is the graph on seabreeze reports swell in meters, but coastalwatch reports in feet. What I found is seabreeze can say 2 meters and coastalwatch says 3.6 feet. If there is roughly 3 feet to a meter, these sites are reporting two different things for the same location.
Scalem
I will still give it a crack if the waverider is saying 2m it just depends on the direction of the swell. 2m from the south and the SPB will be a pretty flat as the swell pushes straight past. If it has a fair bit of east it may make things interesting but not impossible.
My opinion anyway.
Without putting too fine a point on it Charlie, is your winch left handed or right handed?
TOL
Jeez I'm bored.............
Don't know how many times I've logged on today...........
How do you tell?
I use it with both hands. I usually undo the ratchet and wind it without all of the noise that it makes until the last few inches.
I actually have an electric winch but which through my own stupidity I managed to strip a gear on but I have never bothered fixing it because I reckon that a bit of arm muscle exercise is not such a bad thing to keep up as one gets older.
I am probably quicker winding the boat in by hand anyway that what the even noisier electric winch used to do for me.
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This is the number for BOM weather predictions in Moreton Bay.
1300360428
Cheers Marto
One thing to remember:
Weather forecasts are nothing but horoscopes with numbers.
Have you been so bored you send yourself a PM??
Can you send yourself a PM??
Have you ever been so bored you think about crap like that??
I intend on living for-ever....so far so good
Seabreeze Cairns today predicted 3knots at 8.30am, increasing to 9-12 knots after 10.00am.
We were in 20-25knots, possibly 30-35 in some of the scuds that came through, from 8.30am until our return to the ramp at 11.15am.
Some of the game boats outside the reef reported a constant 30-35knots with lightning and rain.
I usually rely on a combination of Seabreeze, BOM and Buoyweather and average the results.
I'll still go out if Seabreeze predicts good conditions and wear it if it turn to crap
not sure if u have tried willy's weather mate i find it very good
I always go off the BOM windmaps, seems the most accurate from what I have experienced, espically one or two days out. Use seabreeze to check current wind and look at the synoptic charts, also use the current weather pages on BOM mainly stations at Sandy Cape, Elliot and Herron Islands and 1770.
Why is a 2 metre swell such a big deal? If there is a slow wave period and not much chop even 3 or 4 metres isn't much to worry about unless you are crossing a bar on a run out tide, which no one with half a brain would do in a 4m swell. I would rather 5-10knots on a 3-4m swell than a 1m chop from the wrong direction any day of the week.
Anthony
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