Cheers Isaak! I recon I'll be chasing Dave all the way. But it would be great to see a team result of 600km for the day.

It's certainly worth giving a go ...

My top five distances sessions have been in Oct-Nov-Dec, with the best three sessions all in November, so this is definitely my target month for setting a distance sailing record.

Distance Travelled
511.598 (29 Nov 2009)
315.501 (22 Nov 2008)
274.890 (28 Nov 2010)
207.712 (28 Dec 2009)
163.200 (24 Oct 2009)

Plenty of time to prepare ...

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It's certainly worth giving a go ...

My top five distances sessions have been in Oct-Nov-Dec, with the best three sessions all in November, so this is definitely my target month for setting a distance sailing record.

Distance Travelled
511.598 (29 Nov 2009)
315.501 (22 Nov 2008)
274.890 (28 Nov 2010)
207.712 (28 Dec 2009)
163.200 (24 Oct 2009)

Plenty of time to prepare ...

Dec 2010 309.64km
nov 2010 259.42km
dec 2010 162.68km
jan 2011 132.76km
jan 2011 125.10km\

Dam, I'm 3rd. not thats its a competition! For the team, as always!!!!!!!

PS As a general rule it's only one major distance attempt each year (and yes, definitely for the team)!!

Got some bad news for you, Jacques may have come up a bit short
www.gps-speedsurfing.com/default.aspx?mnu=user&val=72209&uid=283

This still hasn,t be ratified yet but thats the target at the moment.

What amazes me is Jacques did his in 13 hrs Thats smoking along, what could he do with 24hrs

and sorry, it was a Victorian

Go for it guys. We will be watching

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Got some bad news for you, Jacques may have come up a bit short
www.gps-speedsurfing.com/default.aspx?mnu=user&val=72209&uid=283

This still hasn,t be ratified yet but thats the target at the moment.

What amazes me is Jacques did his in 13 hrs Thats smoking along, what could he do with 24hrs

and sorry, it was a Victorian

Go for it guys. We will be watching

What is this farse! I get directed to some Vico that went to bed and then got up and went out for another sail and calls it a record. Ah cmon as if a victorian can cut the mustard' with our Davy boy!!

No offence Kato, you Dave and Jacques have certainly earnt mega respect and motivated many to get out there and have a good dig at getting up some serious distance. Its just a pity your Victorian

Mucho Respecto!

I thought this was the current ranking?

1 Jacques van der Hout 520.88
2 Dave Morehead 511.60
3 kato 462.42
4 Claude Lecoq 422.92
5 Snides 415.97
6 Sam Doecke 404.50
7 Isaac de Vries 342.45
8 Peter Vernet 323.00
9 evets 310.40
10 Kaleb Smith 309.64

For the time being at least and subject to change at short notice!!

This all sounds pretty suss, are the Pakistani's involved

Just to clarify, the GPS Team Challenge site does not really hold any records as such. We define a session as happening any time from midnight to midnight on the one calendar day.

We have had times when people have sailed through midnight and so we had to ask them to split their session at midnight.

If you want to compare records then GPS-SS is a good place to do it, they are a lot more formal with checking people's tracks after they achieve a PB. We just trust everyone to post the right results (and as far as I'm aware, everyone always does), but you can't formally rely on it.

Thanks Nebs, I'll be planning on sticking to the GPSTC format of midnight to midnight
Theres no doubting that Kato's awesome effort is deffinately the world 24hour record.
It will be great to see the new world 24 hour record(when it happens) recorded on GPSTC with the midnight to midnight ruling

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Thanks Nebs, I'll be planning on sticking to the GPSTC format of midnight to midnight
Theres no doubting that Kato's awesome effort is deffinately the world 24hour record.
It will be great to see the new world 24 hour record(when it happens) recorded on GPSTC with the midnight to midnight ruling

Good luck with it. Have a look at the Ay-Up lights for the night time leg and having a reference light on shore helped too. Have a practice first with the night stuff as its very different and easy to lose your wind direction.

Here's some advice from the great man on fitness etc

www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Article/bjorn-dunkerbeck-red-bulletin-feature-021243018280832

Fit Across The Board
"There's no one part of the body that's more important than others when it comes to windsurfing; it's a complete body workout. Your legs take the strain when you control the board; you train your arms and upper body so that you can control the sail. The good thing is, the stronger you are, the better you can surf. But I don't go to the gym very often."

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buzzy said...

Thanks Nebs, I'll be planning on sticking to the GPSTC format of midnight to midnight
Theres no doubting that Kato's awesome effort is deffinately the world 24hour record.
It will be great to see the new world 24 hour record(when it happens) recorded on GPSTC with the midnight to midnight ruling

Good luck with it. Have a look at the Ay-Up lights for the night time leg and having a reference light on shore helped too. Have a practice first with the night stuff as its very different and easy to lose your wind direction.

Thanks Kato! the Ay-up lights are a fantsatic aussie company. I nearly bought some last year for endurance horse riding but in the end got carried away and made my own. Ended up with a fully water proof 1000 lumens which I can use for night sailing as well.
Hey look at this you've been beaten
http://www.jp-australia.com/2011/index.php?id=1712&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=142

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Jezstrt said...

Here's some advice from the great man on fitness etc

www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Article/bjorn-dunkerbeck-red-bulletin-feature-021243018280832

Fit Across The Board
"There's no one part of the body that's more important than others when it comes to windsurfing; it's a complete body workout. Your legs take the strain when you control the board; you train your arms and upper body so that you can control the sail. The good thing is, the stronger you are, the better you can surf. But I don't go to the gym very often."

Good reading Jez, vezzy interesting.

Now about lights, would cycle lights be good to use or would the salt water totally stuff them up. I've got a cycle light called a....wait for it...Joystick. Cost $350 so it's a pretty good one, it can handle rain but can it handle the old salt Does anyone know

I'm not going to say a word! Ah what the heck, I might as well mention that your Joystick is exposure. when you mount your joystick on your head you look like a d#%khead. If you attach it to your boom you have two Dicks attached to your rig
Looks like they would do the job Kazz, you might need to try it out though

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buzzy said...

kato said...

buzzy said...

Thanks Nebs, I'll be planning on sticking to the GPSTC format of midnight to midnight
Theres no doubting that Kato's awesome effort is deffinately the world 24hour record.
It will be great to see the new world 24 hour record(when it happens) recorded on GPSTC with the midnight to midnight ruling

Good luck with it. Have a look at the Ay-Up lights for the night time leg and having a reference light on shore helped too. Have a practice first with the night stuff as its very different and easy to lose your wind direction.

Thanks Kato! the Ay-up lights are a fantsatic aussie company. I nearly bought some last year for endurance horse riding but in the end got carried away and made my own. Ended up with a fully water proof 1000 lumens which I can use for night sailing as well.
Hey look at this you've been beaten
http://www.jp-australia.com/2011/index.php?id=1712&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=142

Confused !!!!!! so am i. See if you can get your head around this. I never broke Dave,s GPSTC and as previously stated by Ben that the team challenge is not about record breaking or keeping thats GPS3,s role, but i did break the 24hr distance record (Held by Dave)
GPSTC rules are that it must be in a calender day. Jacques broke the GPSTC record with 521km but missed the 24hr distance record of 540.9km. A bit hard to claim the World Distance Record when you sail a smaller distance. So that the mark. Go for it,I,ll cheer from the side lines

I suppose the only way to put all confusion to rest is sail more than 540.9km in one calendar day (24hours). Then the person can hold both top distance ranking and the world Record on the GPSTC and the GPSSS respectively.

PS - there's no doubt that Kato has the GPSSS record for any 24hour period and now Jaques has the top distance ranking on the GPSTC (which hopefully one of you crazy bastards can take back)

I think for anyone who plans to make it to 520 km now, it'd certainly be worth pushing on a bit further and going for both records, especially as the gap between the two has reduced!! They are different things though, as explained, so holding either record is a fantastic and stand alone accomplishment. However, that said I think whoever does make it above 540 km will no doubt be eyeing off 'first to 600'.

So Kato has the 24hr record and Jacques has the day distance record as it stands??

Next topic please
God bless and goodnight

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I'm not going to say a word! Ah what the heck, I might as well mention that your Joystick is exposure. when you mount your joystick on your head you look like a d#%khead. If you attach it to your boom you have two Dicks attached to your rig
Looks like they would do the job Kazz, you might need to try it out though

Yes but I have 2 lights so I would really have 2 dicks attached to my boom

That would be good to have 2, just in case one fails.
Some mad lunatic was sailing at Dorans this morning when I went past at 7

Dave , Rupert from News limited wants to know ;

Re your last effort ,what were the wind strengths/directions , what gear did you use, where did you sail , how long did you sail for , what breaks did you take , what kept you going , how were you after it & how long did you take to recuperate ?

Re your next effort ; where ,when , what , who will go with you , whats your support & why ?

Re the bloke who broke your record , who , what , where ?

cheers , Fitz .

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Dave , Rupert from News limited wants to know ;

Re your last effort ,what were the wind strengths/directions , what gear did you use, where did you sail , how long did you sail for , what breaks did you take , what kept you going , how were you after it & how long did you take to recuperate ?

Re your next effort ; where ,when , what , who will go with you , whats your support & why ?

Re the bloke who broke your record , who , what , where ?

cheers , Fitz .

Tony, tell rupert that hes way behind the times, Dave is so yesterday! You should be asking Dave if hes going to go and watch all the young boys and girls beat the current two record holders.

Hi Fitzy,

I'll PM you a reply ...

This is like the lead up to a boxing match with all this banter, she's on I should start a sweep

Cmon Jez I dont think thats the right attitude, I'm just getting Dave keyed up for a big team score I dont want him lagging behind because he wasnt really motivated.

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Cmon Jez I dont think thats the right attitude, I'm just getting Dave keyed up for a big team score I dont want him lagging behind because he wasnt really motivated.

I think you on KA is all the motivation he needs