Two sleeps to go boys and girls. Make sure you get to bed early and definitely no alcohol the next 2 nights to give the liver some preparation time.
Don't forget to pack the tooth brush and spare pair of clean undies aw and better pack in some w/s gear also.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

No room for undies, too much gear

And night sailing

I've had to work today and the report for sandy pt looks like this:



Some feedback on how it was down there would be good!

Was pretty good today , I just did a day trip and it was a fun day . Started fairly light, 15 knots so it was big gear then it filled as the day went on. I left about 4.30 , needed to change down by then and my back was killing me so decided to pull the pin. It was 5 meter weather by then and the guy's were having a ball. Expect some good times.
It was great to see so many people on the water . I don't think I have ever seen that many boards down there at one time ,awesome . It was tough navigating the traffic trying to do speed runs and I had to get grumpy at people a couple of times to avoid killing them but everybody was enjoying the conditions.
Thanks to the SHQ team once again, and for Daffy lending his boat. I had to make use of it today when I hit the east bank, went over the front and sheared my mast extension. Saved me a very ugly swim.

Sailboard Headquaters Melbourne Cup weekend.
We finally got the wind we were hoping for today, Monday. From 10 am we had 15-20 knots for the 'all in' slalom races and a great deal of fun. After a few races the wind ramped up to a solid 20 to 25 knots and further racing was abandoned in favour of speedsailing. After another hour or two the wind got into the mid to high 20's with gusts to 30 knots or maybe slightly more. By this time the tide was running in but not hard enough to produce the dreaded whoopdedoos. We sailed right through past high tide but the angle was SW making for a quite tight course so max speeds just over 40 knots were about the best.
Craig Hollins and I tried a speed run on the Starboard Gemini Tandem but the best we could do was just over 25 knots with a 6.6m and a 5.8m Koncept and a 44cm fin. Man that thing is stable through the chop! It just eats it up as if it isn't even there!
The other highlight of the day, or I should say evening, was Craig and Mat speed sailing at NIGHT! Craig has sourced some great LED lights for his helmet and they worked really well. It was still SW and 25 knots but pitch black dark. We tried to get some photos but I am not sure if they turned out usable yet. At one point Craig came in and said he had just done a 36 knots run!!
This concept really has some great potential!
The whole weekend has been a blast with lots of activities including SUP demos on the main surf beach on a loverly sunny offshore Sunday in lovely 2-3 foot rollers, a great surf sailing session this afternoon and talks, demos and inspiration from three time world freestyle champ Ricardo Compello!
Not to mention the Tennis club hall rocking and rolling on its old stumps under 200 feet at the Saturday night spit roast party. I think I can safely say that a good time was had by all.
A big thanks to the SHQ crew including Mike (great speeches ) Luke and Paul. Nobody seems to be able to remember exactly when the First 'SHQ Cup' weekend was held but we recon it will be getting close to it's 20th year by now and it is as strong and popular as ever. Long may it continue!