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Hi, The July to September 2020 "packo predictions" for Port Phillip Heads are now available from the updated links at the top of the original post. Next expected 3 monthly update will be around the 22nd of September 2020 The small scale versions of the monthly predictions appear below just...

Packo again, with an afterthought post: I've had some second thoughts about my last reply to baza. Perhaps it was the way baza's original post was framed, but I unintentionally slipped into the "its all about the Heads" mindset that I have previously criticised others for, including the po...

Hello baza, Apologies for the delay in replying but I used the recent good weather with a couple of days doing measurements off Portsea and in the Rip. Its all done from a Kayak so is covid-19 "lockdown legal" (I think?). Plenty of "essential exercise" in that, but it leaves me a...

Hello baza. You wrote: (I think I did it correctly but if not here goes again ) . . . Not sure what happen in that first try - but the system says you have only made the one post, and there have been no PM's (personal messages) to me. Never mind all that as I now have received your question - and it...

Hi,

The April to June 2020 "packo predictions" for Port Phillip Heads are now available from the updated links at the top of the original post. Next expected 3 monthly update will be around the 22nd of June 2020
cheers,
packo

***** Apology ***** Hi newman, Very sorry about the many days delay in replying to your post but I have been a little busy. I hope you do manage to revisit this thread again some time to see the much delayed reply to your 2nd Post. Mixed among the usual time consuming domestic chores were a number ...

Hi newman, welcome to the forum! Great to finally get some questions! (In the old dive-Oz forum days there were quite a few questioners - but on this forum you are the first in over 2 years!). BTW interested to know if you are a diver or sailor in this region, or just have a curiosity interest in Po...

hi "YakForger", Welcome to the Scubadoctor forums. Don't worry about asking beginner's questions here - that is where all of us started! Probably you haven't got a response from anyone in the dive shop yet is because it is a very busy time of the year for them and they might not be checkin...

Hi, The January to March 2020 "packo predictions" for Port Phillip Heads are now available from the updated links at the top of the original post. Next expected 3 monthly update will be around the 22nd of March 2020 News? Not much other than all logging bugs seem to have been ironed out of...

****** Background ****** Update 15/11/2019 : Some weeks back I completed work on the "Packo Predictions" of 2020 slack water times and other info for Port Phillip Heads. Part of that work involves a cross check of "Packo times" with the "Cardno times" that the BoM and ...

Hi, The October to December 2019 "packo predictions" for Port Phillip Heads are now available from the updated links at the top of the original post. Next expected 3 monthly update will be around the 22nd of December 2019 Not sure what is going on but google doesn't seem to hoover up the t...

Hi,

The July to September 2019 "packo predictions" for Port Phillip Heads are now available from the updated links at the top of the original post. Next expected 3 monthly update will be around the 22nd of September 2019

cheers,
packo

Hello Lloyd, As you say the Nat Shipwreck Database coords of: 38 58.800's 143 30.600'e show this is most likely a "roughie position" as hinted at by the trailing "00"s in both coordinates. I can't add much to your post other than to say an American eChart I use (which does seem t...

In the original post, after an edit, Lloyd wrote: The Rowan Stevens (RS) marks published for some sites are different to what we have (Sdoc). Some by just the last figure which probably isn't significant. But sometimes by a far bit. Coogee - RS 38 18.429, 144 34.300 - Sdoc 38 18.421, 144 34.306 Cour...

Lloyd wrote (before re-editing): The Rowan Stevens marks published for the Batman, Beverwyk 19, Campana, Fawkner, Pioneer and VHB 53 all match what we have in the database. Perhaps that is not such a good thing! If GPS marks from two sources match exactly, then it is around 99% certain that one is c...