Picking a weather window

A few factors that we consider when working out when we're leaving a place and going to the next.

• Wind
• Swell
• Tide
• at the leaving location
• How far it is
• How fast do I think we'll be able to go
• Wind
• Swell
• Tide
• At the arriving location

For example when we're going to leave Yamba and go up to the Gold Coast seaway I'll be looking mainly at these pages.

Yamba Wind

Yamba Swell

Yamba Tides

Byron Bay Wind

Byron Bay Swell

Gold Coast Wind

Gold Coast Swell

Gold Coast Tides

BothYamba and the Gold Coast have a bar that we need to cross and so does then ideally we'll go across the bar during the third hour of the rising tide.  In this way the swell coming in and the tide coming in are both going in the same direction and the water should be flatter.
What I'm looking for when we leave here is ALL of the following:

1. A Yamba tide going from low to high and leave 3 hours after the low
2. Swell less than 1.5 meters and ideally from the south or south east and dropping lower still
3. Wind anywhere from the west through to the south east but less than 15 knots
4. Swell in Byron Bay later that day / night (about 10 hours later) to be roughly south and down around 1.2 metres
5. Byron Bay wind to be less than 10 knots overnight (so we can get 6 - 12 hours rest)
6. Gold Coast wind to be less than 15 knots (about 8 - 10 hours after we leave Byron Bay)
7. Gold Coast swell to be less than 1.5 metres
8. Gold Coast tide to be going from low to high and we need to arrive 3 hours after the low

Yamba to Byron Bay is about 50 nautical miles so that'll take us about 10 hours and Byron Bay to the Gold Coast is about 40 nautical miles so that will take about 8 hours.  The good part of stopping over at Byron Bay is that it's what they call 'open roadstead' which means that it's open to the ocean.  No bars to cross and therefore no tides to worry about but it does mean we need better weather.