I got my signup tins of wax Trying base coat warm water. overrubbed by cool Huey (Aussie name for surf god) has generated an East Coast low here in Australia they can be as fierce as a Hurricane or as we call them here Cyclones. This one is not but my local is looking to a 3 to 4 metre SE swell meeting NW wind ideal for my spot. Promises a 200 metre long wax testing pleasure machine.
The other questions you ask 50ft swell in southern ocean pulses towards Western Australia and generates the power of WA up to Indo. oOn the east Coast a tongue of the swell might pass up the Tasman up to Sydney just before the swell sneaks under New Zealand.Bass Strait pulls and magnifies the lines into Bells in Victoria and other Vicco spotsOnce out of Bass Strait to the East, North of Gabo Island is called the paddock by sailing ship as they could tack 90 degrees north out of the roaring forties.Look at Bass Strait it is a swell funnel to the West coast of the south Island of New Zealand serious ship breakers in that lane!!! Tankers gone missing no longer producing bow waves link to another post of yours Shipstern,, Sou sou east coast of Tasmania cops the side spill when these systems pass further south.Waxed on enough now.