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Results: State Wavesailing 2009

John Rohde — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:33:46 +0000

The South Australian 2009 Wavesailing Tiles were held at Middleton on Sun Sept 6th. Here’s a brief wrap up.

Social division – 16 Sailors – some pretty tidy windsurfing went down – conditions were a little trying at first when the wind backed off to 15 knots and everyone was rigged for the 25 knots just before the comp started.

When it finally kranked back in we had about 45 mins of 15-25 knots cross off with a few 2 – 2-1/2 foot waves. Was awesome to see the Southern Right whales watching proceedings from out the back and great that everyone respected the exclusion zone regulations.

Social Placings:
1st Greg Fletcher: with some smooth wave sailing
2nd Marty Sellars: finding some sweet sets and sliding the evo around
3rd Ty Andrews: tying some nice moves together to get the nod from the judges
Womens: Anthea Williams (who we owe a bottle of red wine)

Open Mens
This was great to watch – wind kicked but the sailors said the slightly cross on made wave riding a little more difficult with the risk of being backwinded on the sections.

1st Dean Ryles: with some slippery wave face moves and a range of back and forward loops
2nd Mark Smith: in his usual style one of the smoothest wave face riders – some nice reos – a pleasure to watch
3rd Chris Hales & Tim Haselgrove: the judges couldn’t split them so Chris & Tim shared the spoils – both with some sweet aerial moves and a few nice waves to cap it off.

Cheers to Geoff Mitton, Gareth Williams and James Thomson (who we couldn’t find for the final) who sailed till they nearly collapsed and just missed out on the prizes.

Thoughts go out to Scott McCluskey who pulled a sweet forward in wind that no one else could even move in and landed awkwardly and hurt his back – hope its on the improve quickly.

Thanks to Onboard Windsurfing Glenelg for the tent, Coopers Pale ales and flags, Tru Blu Hire for the generator, SAKSA for the loan of PA (and Johnny) and Dave Watson for a couple of bottles of wine for the prizes.

Finally Thankx to Johnny “chops” Sellars for a great job on the Mike and helping us keep things under control, Gemma for signing everyone up and keeping tabs on the cash and Kym for a great effort sorting out the social judging (be good to see you back out there).

Thanks to everyone else that came along, competed, helped out and shared a beer and a sausage afterwards – makes it all worthwhile when it comes off!!! - article copied (for posterity) from the Seabreeze Forum.

Follow Seabreeze link for the photos, more photos, and comments AND have a look at Dave Lane’s MOVIE… (below)

South Australian Wave Titles 09 from Dave Lane on Vimeo.

When full results are available, we’ll add a link.

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Formula Windsurfing Results

John Rohde — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:47:45 +0000

Ramsgate Beach, Botany Bay, Sydney NSW, Jan 6-9 2009

Rick Murray (AUS-4)

The overall winners are:
1. Sean O’Brien (AUS-120)
2. Sam Fawkes (AUS-21)
3. Sam Parker (AUS-3) 1st Master

1st Woman
7. Allison Shreeve (AUS-911)

1st Grand Master
11. Rick Murray (AUS-4)

1st Youth
19. Christian Justesen (DEN-111)

FE+ Division
1. Bruce Healey (AUS-9)

For further info, photos and full results lists see www.fw-australia.com

Posted in formula, results

Olympic Windsurfing Results

John Rohde — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:33:36 +0000

RS:X Women
1. Jian Yin (China)
2. Alessandra Sensini (Italy)
3. Bryony Shaw (Great Britain)
4. Marina Alabau (Spain)
5. Jessica Crisp (Australia)
6. Barbara Kendall (New Zealand)
Article: http://www.sailing.org/olympics/news/24795.php

RS:X Men
1. Tom Ashley (New Zealand)
2. Julien Bontemps (France)
3. Sharar Zubari (Israel)
4. Nick Dempsey (Great Britain)
No Australian entrant
Article: http://www.sailing.org/olympics/news/24796.php

Results KASail WinterSeries’08 #1

John Rohde — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:39:31 +0000

[05/07/2008] The first round of the KASailWINTERSERIES was held today at Boggy Lake. The forecast was very light and a few braved the cold conditions (5 deg when I got there this morning) to rig their biggest sails, boards and fins and slug it out for a figure eight one hour marathon. The fleet consisted of big slalom boards, sails around 7.5m / 9.0m and also Richard Upton on his Exocet Kona, looking very threatening in the light winds. Steve Roberts was on hand with his boat again, and after surviving a high speed blow-out whilst cornering on the way there, he eventually arrived and set the course for us with our shiny new inflatable buoys courtesy of Windsurfing SA.

The wind was slightly stronger for the first half of the event (around 15 knots max) and most of us were planing around the course. Sam Doecke took an early lead and managed to lap the entire fleet and myself (I was in second at that stage) and continued planing the whole time. The wind dropped a little towards the end and some of us could no longer get planing, but Nick Bellgrove came to the fore with his 9.0m and ended up battling it out with Sam for the lead.

In the end, the results for round one are:
1st – Sam Doecke 16 laps
2nd – Nick Bellgrove 16 laps
3rd – Chris Dimond 13 laps
4th – Joe Belluzzo 12 laps
5th – Richard Upton 10 laps
6th – Tim Hemer 8 laps
7th – Geoff Shuttleworth 7 laps
= 8th – David Lane 2 laps (retired)
= 8th – Milo Milutinovic 2 laps (retired)

Well done to Sam Doecke (can’t believe he got a 36 knot peak too!!)

bathymetry of Boggy Lake & course location

Thanks to all for participating.

Next weekend is round two. We will hold either Slalom or GPS Speed depending on the forecast. Hope to see you all there – Chris Dimond Aus06