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Thought it was capped at 100?

Gonna be a busy startline

Underoath said..
Wow on a lighter note.

Weed report:

Went for a little kite off Quinn's tonight, went no more than 1km off the coast. There is quite a bit of weed, not the stringy weed, the bushy clumpy stuff that has bubbles you can pop.

It didn't bother me as I'm a noob on a twin tip, but realistly I was running over weed every 10 seconds.

Yeah lots of weed, did the Scarbs to Pinnas run, mainly the long broad ribbon type mixed with bushy stuff

One of these should do the trick!

I have a choice of larger or smaller TTs, which would be better? I am guessing large, bigger planing area, more stability?

Forecast looking under 20knots for tomorrow - I'm a little disappointed as Gage Roads is a super fun beast at 25 knots.

Would have preferred 20 -27knots like yesterday arvo as I was fully crazy lit on my 9m Chrono doing runs back to Leighton with the crew from 6-8km out. Man that would make a hard core - L2L race. Survival of the fittest if you try to ride at full speed.

a bit of weed - a bit of swell - a bit of side chop - 4 monster ships parked 8km out the back - and no crashes - a great arvo out in the deep, deep blue.

P.S We were ( about 6-8 racers)all packing flares and Epirb and feels way safer out there - as it happened in less than 10 minutes Andy Hansen had crashed 4-5km out totally lit on his 12m and snapped a centre line and his kite went down in crazy loops - somehow over the next 10 minutes he untangled the kite mare and tied a knot in broken centre line and kited back to beach. I reckon new offshore flare and Epirb rules are Fab.

Crap conditions forecast like last year right now - not looking good - why don't they postpone till Sunday - looking a lot better than tomorrow.

I am calling ;

if we wake up in the morning and it's cloudy then be worried,

but if it's blue sky's all will be sweet,

and it should be 15 - 20 knts

- but how has the forecast been, i have never seen it change so much over the course of the last 7 days,

from almost troughing out to 25knts ?


- keeps it interesting .....

Good luck and safe journey to all. Going to be blue sky and beautiful tomorrow...fingers crossed for you all

Good luck for today, fingers crossed the wind comes in for you all.

sky's looking nice and clear - fingers crossed.... - all the forecasts are not looking good though - chance it could be postponed till tomorrow if it does not hit the required 15kts

I reckon its going to be a big kite day, maybe even 18M Chrono weather!

RPM said..
Wonder how many will do a Houdini today and voluntarily pull out due to light wind and not having a big kite.. Will it roll the same as last year and then they are automatically allocated a spot for next year.... If so that sucks.

The wind looks ordinary, and those who don't have the right size gear are going to struggle

if you dont have a big kite and the right gear they should not ...... enter

Agree, with limited places, pulling out due to not having sufficient gear means someone else misses out, which is a unfair. No need to postpone, let's go!

I want a live feed of this event....when is start time? It's getting
windy

230pm start.