Results from the final race up on www.supracer.com/2013-lost-mills-results/

Eric Terrien won comfortably from the reports on a BIC.

BIC are huge in Europe so they would be stoked with that result.

Trav and ang were the best of the aussies with a third in their respective division well done!

Any detailed reports from the competitors?

teatrea said..

PeterP said..

From my (limited) experience with 200m sprints the engine is 99% of the equation.........at least with the boards available currently. If someone had a fully dedicated sprint machine (like Jim Terrel had a the event in the US) then maybe there would be a point to this. But ultimately you want to beat your mates and you'll bring what you can to achieve this simple goal and I personally see that as a good thing for developing the sport. Then leave the 12'6 inflatable racing to anyone who wants fair racing.

Would have to disagree with this , a dedicated flat water board is a lot faster than one designed for ocean! Sure a gun paddler can be competetive with an ocean design.Beating your mates is one thing , becoming an elite and trying to make a living from it is another! All forms of the sport will grow the sport , the weekend warrior , the dude thats just wants to paddle! But if it wants to reach the ultimite which is the Olympics a standard needs to be set and agreed upon , that means same design specs for every body , whatever that is

This is an interesting one - Connors speed on 200m is way beyond hull speed of a 14' - this means he is planing or semi planing. Now which board is better at planing? A typical flatwater board is designed to displace water efficiently while a downwind board is designed to catch and stay on runs ie planing. Once board is up and planing you want as little wetted area as possible ie a shorter waterline is not necessarily a bad thing.

I don't know which is faster (on a 200m sprint) but I do know I'd probably want to be on the lightest one ever built.....

How fast where they going from the get go , didnt they realize they had 17k to goClose finish for a race that long.