November Hour of Power - Event Wrap-Up
Another November done, another Hour of Power in the bag - and this one absolutely delivered. Big thanks to all 36 competitors who jumped in, uploaded tracks, broke PBs, and quietly helped keep KA72 alive for another year. Couldn't do it without you lot.

Participation & Activity
311 tracks uploaded across the month.
A cumulative 12,415.66 km sailed - roughly the distance from Melbourne to Los Angeles. Twice.
Every single day of November had at least one track land on the site. No slackers.

Busiest day:15 November, with 19 uploads.

Distance lunacy:20 tracks exceeded 100 km.

Workhorse of the Month:MobZ - 25 tracks over 20 days. That's not participation; that's a lifestyle.

PB Carnage
You don't get an Hour-of-Power month without some personal-best mayhem:
8 new one-hour PBs set during the event.
74 PBs across all categories combined.

People weren't just sailing - they were clearly trying to break things.

Special Shout-Out - Overall Winner
Dave Morehead deserves his own paragraph.

Not only did he post the longest single session of the entire month - an insane 318 km on 20 November - but he did it after:
Driving from Tasmania to Albany, WA,
Towing a trailer full of gear,
Including over 100 km of dirt road,

Just to get to the session.

That's dedication. Or madness. Probably both. Either way, Dave, the crown is yours.

Category Highlights

Grand Masters still absolutely ripping - several in the 20-25 knot range.
Legends (60+) continuing to embarrass younger sailors with frightening consistency.
Women/Junior & Foils: Solid participation and a heap of PBs in the foil divisions this year. Nice growth there.

Prizes
As promised, a few goodies drawn at random:
2 ? $20 discounts on future KA72 event entries
$50 voucher to your local store

Prize draw video is on YouTube but I can't paste the link here for some reason. Will post in a reply below if I can.

Winners will be notified directly - keep an eye on your inbox (and spam folder because email servers hate me).

Thanks Again
Thanks to everyone who entered and helped keep KA72 running. The comps help pay for hosting, new features, maintenance, and all the behind-the-scenes magic that lets you upload a GPS track and instantly argue about why it wasn't faster.

See you at the next event, and start tuning your gear now, because it's going to be a fun one.

The prize draw winners were:
Ian Wright ($20 voucher for future events)
Tom Hansen ($20 voucher for future events)
Mark Trollope ($50 voucher for store of choice)

Thanks again Dylan, looking forward to the next one.

Appreciate everything you do Dylan, thanks

Great wrap up Dylan.
Thanks so much for hosting it, good fun.
Please though, no more! I need a holiday!

I dipped a toe into GP3S and waterspeed, but nothing compares to the Aussie GPS comps, they are special.

Thanks Dylan, always great to be supporting your site, at it provides such a service to our GPS sailing community. Good to hear all the stats for the month as well. Keep up the great work!

Dylan, thanks again hr of power and for your website, it is really a great resource. I am truly grateful and more than happy to support you any way possible. As a suggestion to keep everything interesting and maybe a way to take a new look at things... why don't you introduce some new KPI's and do a month of testing of these KPI's with same competition. For me happy to chuck $20 at any experiment. First up suggestion KPI would be: "Jibe master" or is is "Gybe master"....the KPI is from GPSAR...#jibes x av. speed in 1 hr...could be two categories in this....Alpha compliant Jibe or just Jibing....(probably can back calculate this metric)...Attached screenshot of random last session from GPSAR showing the Jibemaster results at bottom

Thank you Dylan

Thank you Dylan. See you next year
Well done everyone.

Thanks Dylan for organising and Mobz for the reporting.

Was good fun. Once again I just used the challenge to push myself to make vids.
Kinda the final episode was this one, B-Rad stole the show..