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Were are you getting your weather forecasting from, Bom Site prediction, SundayWindsSouth to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots easing to 10 to 15 knots early in the morning before turning south to southeasterly in the afternoon, becoming variable around 10 knots in the evening.Seas1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the morning.SwellSouthwesterly 2 to 2.5 metres.Aso have a lookhttp://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/wind/index.jspMost reports are coming from Sanders, so you'l need plenty of fuel on board.I.m leaving my next trip for a better day B)

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I have been out there a few times blowing up to 15 knts & wasn't too bad as the swell knocks the short waves around, but once it starts getting around 20 knts & coming from the southerly directions, things start getting a little uncomfortable & slow.It's great that you asked tenoayell, Monday doesn't look to bad as I look for NE to north breezes with seas around a metre, but my crew can't make it until later in the week. B)

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Yeah, 10knots and under seems to be the way out there. Have been to pages in 16-17knots, but defiantly not Saunders. Although, we only have a 5.4m :P Great once you are there! So much flatter as you don't have the warm air coming off the land hitting you. Always more wind and chop once you hit the pages on the way home.

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many of us have been saying that there is chance of tuna hysteria taking somones life this season, lets hope these guys are found and prove me wrong:http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/search-for-two-missing-fishermen-off-cape-jervis/story-fni6uo1m-1226828988185I was on the local foreshore yesty arvo with the kids, no chance i wouldve gone out in a 15ftr locally let alone off CJ

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many of us have been saying that there is chance of tuna hysteria taking somones life this season' date=' lets hope these guys are found and prove me wrong:http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/search-for-two-missing-fishermen-off-cape-jervis/story-fni6uo1m-1226828988185I was on the local foreshore yesty arvo with the kids, no chance i wouldve gone out in a 15ftr locally let alone off CJ[/quote']Can listen to the Sea Rescue live here. no luck so far http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/2653/web
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Not looking good the longer this goes on - feel for the families.We launched from Cape Jervis on sundown Sunday night and overnighted in Rapid Bay. Had a call from water police just after 10pm asking if we had seen the boat. Police said they were apparently going tuna fishing. Spoke to police around 5 times throughout the night and was putting calls over the radios to see if we could contact them (Police weren't sure if they had a radio at that stage), up at 5am and straight out to the Pages on sunrise, did a few laps of the Islands and reef without seeing anything at all. Then went to Threshold and Saunders again nothing sighted in the area.

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