It's good in a noreaster, not much good in a southerly, big wind shadow on shore line hard to get back without a centerboard, westerly, probably better at Bonnie Vale along the shore line very gusty. 
I launched from Bundeena in a big southerly as the proud new owner of a Bombora Tri-fin when I was 17 in the mid-80s. I headed off on a broad reach to the north-east, and once I cleared the headland, the wind picked up to about 30 knots, with the accompanying swell and chop. Since I was even worse at gybing back then than I am now, I kept putting it off because I knew I'd fall off, and I had yet to learn to water start. Not a very good strategy, since all that meant was that I kept heading further and further out to sea. Eventually, Bundeena beach was a distance memory and I was soon off Cronulla beach, but a long way out to sea. I inevitably failed the gybe and wasn't able to uphaul in the chop, (I'd only just started sailing so my skills were not so great, along with my judgement), so I started to make survival plans. Ditched the rig, and started to paddle directly west. I figure I had a 3 km paddle, and accounting for the southerly wind and chop, hoped I could make Wanda or Boat Harbour before I got washed up on Voodoo. Anyway, less than a minute after I started my self-rescue, some off-shore fisherman came along. They picked up me and the board, retrieved my rig, and dropped me off at Bundeena. Learnt some lessons that day, and it was a few years before I did anything that stupid again.
