I love seeing my daily data, my teams data and what everyone else gets where they go. I've met plenty of legends, gained friends, built local ws group, beaten and been beaten on and off the water, laughed at , with and at again. I would hate to loose this from my overall ws life. No I would die if it goes but life with seems so much easier. Include all where possible. Relive the stoke again while bashing the tiles making up your account of the day.
Its awesome Hardie & team

Gps team challenge is awesome, brings the windsurfing community together. Hardie and the Team do a great job. I have never had any issues with what is gpstc. The Rules are fair and clear. Get yourself an approved device or don't join. If joined and you find it hard to follow rules or play well with others, Leave. Save yourself the embarrassment of being kicked out. Why don't you disgruntled few leave gpstc, start your own if you have the ability. It's always the minority's that ruin the fun for the majority.

First time posting in GPS section. Just want to add my support to the GPSTC as it runs. You can't keep every one happy all the time. People who seem worried about the cost of the device could think about how much proportion it is of their overall WS spending. Also, it's not like there is any association fee that anyone is paying to the creators of the challenge. I mean, I play soccer and that is about $500 a year just to join the comp. Most other organised comps will have a fee, so just having to fork out for a watch that meets requirement is no unreasonable and I was happy to do so even though I'm not even that competitive. I really hope it continues, and I hope that people who have issues with it don't leave, just stay involved but get some perspective.

Name and shame the Fwitts that are complaining and ruining it for everyone.
I joined last year and its a great way to keep tabs on yourself and meet others

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Rodskeg said..
Name and shame the Fwitts that are complaining and ruining it for everyone.
I joined last year and its a great way to keep tabs on yourself and meet others

Name and shame for what exactly - suggesting changes to make the GPSTC more inclusive?

If anyone's "ruining it for everyone" it's those who are unable to comment without adding personal abuse.

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Rodskeg said..
Name and shame the Fwitts that are complaining and ruining it for everyone.
I joined last year and its a great way to keep tabs on yourself and meet others

Pick me! Pick me!

A few people pointed out the obvious flaws to inclusiveness of a system that requires devices that are difficult to procure and/or unreliable on a forum that is separate to the GPSTC. This has been going on for some time and they have previously been dismissed/ignored by those in control and could have again..... except it turns out the "minority" supporting their views is not as minor as anyone thought! Perhaps they should be thanked as nobody would have known this had they not complained?

At this stage the changes being made are unknown to the general public, so it remains to be seen if the GPSTC will be more inclusive or less inclusive.

Should I expect a tar and feathering?

Come on guys lets give it a break, there's a change coming, fingers crossed everyone will be happy

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vosadrian said..

Rodskeg said..
Name and shame the Fwitts that are complaining and ruining it for everyone.
I joined last year and its a great way to keep tabs on yourself and meet others

Should I expect a tar and feathering?

I'll give you a hug

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firiebob said..
Come on guys lets give it a break, there's a change coming, fingers crossed everyone will be happy

I can assure you Firie, everyone won't be happy!

Trying to achieve that, given how opposed the views are, is a thankless task.
Hopefully, the changes will be acceptable to most.

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firiebob said..
Come on guys lets give it a break, there's a change coming, fingers crossed everyone will be happy

I can assure you Firie, everyone won't be happy!

Trying to achieve that, given how opposed the views are, is a thankless task.
Hopefully, the changes will be acceptable to most.

Mike I hear Fangy has a new GPS based on the chip log will this be acceptable?

The 'Chip Log' apparatus consisted of a small weighted wood panel that was attached to the reel of rope, and a time measuring device: a half-minute sand glass (as shown in image below to the right.) Rope had knots tied at equal distances along the reel. Sailors would throw the wood panel into the sea, behind the ship, and the rope would start unwinding from the reel. The faster the ship was moving forward the faster the rope would unwind. By counting the number of knots that went overboard in a given time interval, measured by the sand glass, they could tell the ship's speed. In fact that is the origin of the nautical speed unit: the knot.

Mike I hear Fangy has a new GPS based on the chip log will this be acceptable?
Only if the sand in the timer contains no boznium.

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Swindy said..
Mike I hear Fangy has a new GPS based on the chip log will this be acceptable?
Only if the sand in the timer contains no boznium.

Totally with you Swindy, Bozium does not have SDOP so wouldn't be allowed ??

Whoa, you fellas, don't drag me into this, I don't want Fairiebob on my doorstep offering me a hug!
But just as an aside, brilliant diagram Boz, now I can see the problem I was having... I thought I was the 'weighted end' to be tossed overboard. I will get cracking on Version 2. Oh, and don't worry about SDOP. I am pretty sure you can just buy it off the shelf as a nutritional supplement these days. It's next to the Horny Goat Weed if I recall correctly, or was it the Memory Boosters....

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fangman said..
Whoa, you fellas, don't drag me into this, I don't want Fairiebob on my doorstep offering me a hug!

You should be okay Fangster, I hear Firie wears a rubber now a days at least some protection there for you

You cant buy SDOP, its all been snapped up by gangs of rogue Chinese and whisked off to China for some reason!!!

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ka43 said..
You cant buy SDOP, its all been snapped up by gangs of rogue Chinese and whisked off to China for some reason!!!

Must be the big guns Garmin and Sunato buying up SDOP forcing us to use there products without SDOP, it's a plot against the GPSTC, conspiracy?

Maybe I'll figure out how to add SDoP to rope, that should be cheap enough for everybody.

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decrepit said..
Maybe I'll figure out how to add SDoP to rope, that should be cheap enough for everybody.

Might be a bit of rope burn at 40 kts

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kato said..
Might be a bit of rope burn at 40 kts

Grease mate, grease

Look , i love the GPSTC , but this thread is crazy , Its all to hard ? how dare anyone not be a robot and have an opinion ? Not a very good attitude . I"ll take my bat and ball and close the site . Whatever !!!!

Hardie, whatever you decide, stand proud at how your vision, patience and determination has transformed the windsurfing scene world wide to bring us all together. Any community has detractors and wastrels in, and they're typically the noisiest. But they're entirely outnumbered by those of us who have nothing but love, admiration and respect for what you've done.

I have new friends because of GPSTC. Whatever happens, I just wanted to say thanks.

There is no winner and no prize in GPSTC - as others have said it's always been about meeting like minded people and having a bit of fun.
Any time on the water (and the before and after) is a good time.

I first posted in Dec 08, and the camaraderie started from day 1.

From Aug to Dec 2010 I ran the "Ashes Windsurfing Series" between teams from Aust and England as the Poms were coming out for a cricket test series. Each month was a Test - and of course we won because there was a white-out for most of Dec in England .
As in 'Yes Prime Minister' - you never have an inquiry unless you know what the result will be!

To me, that was all it was meant to be and has been - a tool to add to the thrill of windsurfing.
cheers
Peter

Greetings from Croatia (even my profile says that I am from Italy, that is becouse there is no Croatia in countries under profile on this forum settings )I am on GPSTC from the starts, I guess, Croatia was FIRST country added when page turns from AU to international
(Ben did it on my request and then madness was started all around the world)Didn't understand what will be with that site, but I hope we will stay all here together. I meet awesome friends there and we like to enter our scores, for our progress, and with teams for fun

Don't let GPSTC die, please

Hi warrior, glad you're still enjoying it! Don't worry it'll be going for a few years yet.

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decrepit said..
Hi warrior, glad you're still enjoying it! Don't worry it'll be going for a few years yet.

HELLYEAH!!!

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wkcwarrior said..
Greetings from Croatia (even my profile says that I am from Italy, that is becouse there is no Croatia in countries under profile on this forum settings )I am on GPSTC from the starts, I guess, Croatia was FIRST country added when page turns from AU to international
(Ben did it on my request and then madness was started all around the world)Didn't understand what will be with that site, but I hope we will stay all here together. I meet awesome friends there and we like to enter our scores, for our progress, and with teams for fun

Don't let GPSTC die, please

Nice to see you still around Warrior! It's been a while

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nebbian said..

wkcwarrior said..
Greetings from Croatia (even my profile says that I am from Italy, that is becouse there is no Croatia in countries under profile on this forum settings )I am on GPSTC from the starts, I guess, Croatia was FIRST country added when page turns from AU to international
(Ben did it on my request and then madness was started all around the world)Didn't understand what will be with that site, but I hope we will stay all here together. I meet awesome friends there and we like to enter our scores, for our progress, and with teams for fun

Don't let GPSTC die, please

Nice to see you still around Warrior! It's been a while

Aloha. Yeah still here and still on GPSTC