Hi All - quick wrap up.

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

when it finally kranked back in we had about 45 mins of 15-25 knts cross off with a few 2 - 2-1/2 foot waves. Was awesome to see the Southern Right whales watching procedeeings from out the back and grat 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 Place - 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 Place - the judges couldn't split them so Chris Hale and Tim Haselgrove 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 awkwardley 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!!!

As JP said on the windsurf movie - now is a great time to be a windsurfer!!

Check ya

Fantastic day Russ, thanks so much for all your efforts, not sure we could have done it all without you! Big ups to Chris, Gemma, Marty, Vicki and John....top day all round!

Heres a few candid moments from today, not a lot of sailing, just editing up the footage now, might take a few days.......

Dean with his first prize opens men trophy!

Indie the cutest dog in the world (sorry trev)

Smithy very happy with his days work, hope you got your back rub mate!

First prize social division, The Fletch!

Oh yeah!

Marty gets his prize!

Some dude was sailing in the briefing and did this!

I was on the list.......pretty sure I won the swimming contest!

Penny!

What you looking at?

Shaka!

awww cool guys, check out da waves (said in bad JP aussie accent!)

All Hail The Hale!

Macca post back op!

sweet guys! had sooooo much fun. cant wait to see some of the photos! dave i think a 5min high light filp clip is definatly in order! massive thanks to everybody!

Its on its way!

...cut, paste, drop....hmmm which track to use?

Yeah, that was a great day out. Sunshine, wind, waves and whales - what a combo. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in getting it together. Johnny - great commentary! Makes it fun on and off the water.

On a personal front, I can see this venue needs a board to fill that gap in my quiver between 84 and 220 L volume

Now for the slalom season!

Congratulations Dean Ryles!

Just to update everyone that signed on for Windsurfing SA and the comp - the forms and payments will be delivered on Friday to WSA. Once entered the AUS sail numbers will be allocated (not sure how this is done) - have a look at the list on the AWA - you may find a free number you like if your not into randomly chosen numbers - but get in quick and email Windsurfing SA.

You are all eligable to head along to the AGM as well - have your say about the consitution, events and furture of windsurfing in SA.

And thanks again everyone for the support for Sunday - I had a ball - a good sail - but was knackered Sunday night!!!!
Cheers

Russell

I have done a cool little vid, just trying to free up some space on my hard drive so I can render it!

sweet dave! cant wait to see it!

nearly there, give me an hour!

Come on Dave it's nearly Bed time !! !!!!!!

Can't wait to see it, I've posted some photos on the other thread hail.

Seriously 20 minutes.....I think its worth the wait!....some of my best work!

Counting 1200 sec 1199 sec 1198sec.........................zzzzzz.........zzzz....999 zzzz.................

This has been a seriously long 20 min. Are you still on Maui time????

there is no time on maui! u wake up whan u feel like it. stiff and sore from the day before. calmly eat breaky.... until u look outside and the trees are sideways! so u bail on breaky rush into als windsurfing rental van! and drive to the beach. come home after a masssive day out. and sleep!!! thats about it. not getting my hopes up for this vid to get up tonight???

be patient grasshopper....