......and maybe a bit of carnage 
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i would love to know the reasoning why the courses cannot be the same ?
i was hoping for something a little more ..... interesting
Registration is closed...If anyone can't make it,I would love to get his spot!
Should be a good w e!!
cheers
......and maybe a bit of carnage .
That second leg is straight down wind, With a SW wind that means straight from behind.
any comments from LOC???
Yep I would have liked to have seen a course more like the windsurfers one as well, the more turns the better as far as I was concerned, I guess it all takes time and money to get boats set up etc.
However I reckon we should just be happy to have the event, we all have to do the same course and there is still some room for tactics to come into play, so lets just pray for some wind and enjoy!!!
Besides the poley's wouldn't want us posting faster times for the same course.
Maybe this will be where drifty wave kites might have an advantage or just multiple loops the whole leg? Going to be interesting.
Ha ha I knew you would be the first to bite Mark.
The races were always going to be on a different day and in different conditions anyway but it would have been good to compare.
I actually don't think there is going to be much of a time advantage in the KSers shorter course.
I for one am disappointed I can't watch or race. On now seeing the course 60 odd kites looping madly down the coast will be awesome.
So is the wave comp definately Thursday and the downwinder Friday?
Any spots left for either?
EDIT is there a kiting wave comp at all, or is Thursday the pole dancing wave comp?
Yep its a pole dancing (i.e. tack 5kms out to sea to get back to the peak ) wave comp.
I think there is still spots for the kite race on Friday though.
Are there any options for the trip back from Lancelin to Ledge after the downwinder? Just wondering the best option to get back to my car.
^^^ you can't run both on the same day one after the other
Often the seabreeze is not in until 3, and you need a few hrs after the race for sweeping. If somebody was really missing properly, it would not be long before dark. It is already the case that they won't start a race after 3 - 3:30 or something for those reasons.
And yes they pick a lot of windsurfers out of the water or retire to the beach as it is a very hard race.
as to going together, you can't run a up to 200 windsurfers and even a handful kiters on that course 
the start line is like 100m wide and the start alone (with 60 kiters) will be very very difficult on Fri.
Have to agree with mark_australia as good as a combined race sounds it would'nt be pretty. Just been out at Dutchies with poleys & we sail differently throw that into a race scenario and it would get ugly.
Latest 4cast is good for the kite DW not so flash for the wind surfing marathon but that could change. Hope TC Narelle doesn't cause us too much grief.
the start line is like 100m wide and the start alone (with 60 kiters) will be very very difficult on Fri.
