One of the largest and cleanest swells to hit to Victorian coast in a long time was forecast to hit on a Saturday morning (finally swell when I don’t have to work!) and even more importantly with a forecast 30knots Westerly!
For once the swell actually hit as big as it was forecast to! The whole Victorian coastline was transformed and 4ft waves were breaking in beaches normally that don’t see swell! Places further west such as Princetown were breaking at 30ft+.. Bells Beach was super clean and solid 15ft… The Bells cliffs were packed with photographers and spectators who watched the few hell men who paddled out at Bells!
Point Impossible is a point break just on the East side of Torquay towards Barwon Heads. A great spot to Wavesail in a Westerly. Normally 3 separate breaks, the large swell was joining up and breaking all the way through providing up to 10 turns on the large swells. Out the back the take off was close to mast & half, once on the inside reef (most of the photos are from this spot) the swell got super clean, and the wind got super light, but the swell was still holding clean mast high, peeling right handers!
The wind seemed to stay W-NW so quite offshore for all of Sat and most of Sun, and finally swinging W-SW late Sunday arvo.
A great two days of sailing, as good as anywhere when we get swell like this!
Unfortunately we didn’t have any photographers on hand, but we managed to take a couple of quick shots of the days action
Enjoy
JR
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