Hey Dave, I can always count on you for a response. Thank you. Pity about the image, looks a bit low-res, but hey, it's there!
The winterseries should be good fun, and now that we have that superb flat water venue, it'll be even better.
Cheers,
Yeah sounds great. I won't be much cop in the marathon but would love to get there for a sail at least.
Bubs
Can you count to 150?
I'm hoping that we will have some volunteers on the day to count laps for us, or at least to keep tabs on who's leading.
Bit of a tricky one, but I'm sure we'll work out a system on the day.
Pardon my ignorance but how does the marathon work - is it a 150 laps around a set course of ? distance.
Can you stop for lunch, coffee, sail and board changes or is it one rig and go until 150 , you break someting or retire (feelings) hurt!
sounds like fun but I am sure it would be as painful as hell
GPS distance could be an option. Everyone resets after warm up and off we go. Download is another option with the GPSARpro and the regatta feature.
GPS distance is a good option, but would limit the number of entrants to those with GPS units. It's always hard to keep track of the number of laps (as I have proved before!!), so we will need a simple yet exhausting race format for this event.
hey im fair keen!! marathon would be awsome. y dont u just do last one off the water wins!!! everyone goes out at the same time??? cause it would be just as hard for a beginer to do one lap as it would be for another to do 100!! or is this a silly idea?? 
just need lots of wind....
You don't want to do the last one off the water thing with this crowd, cos they'll sail into next week if you let them!
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Speaking of new boys in town Im moving back to SA after 4 years in WA, this marathon racing looks great, used to sail at lake george, boggy although it looks a bit different now!! What kind of gear do you guys recommend for this, only got wave gear at present but will look at some bigger gear when I get back in August.
no - Heath Patten. Saw the video & photos from Goolwa on the site, got all enthused about buying some quicker gear!!
Well Pato, welcome home!
If you are getting all enthused about the fast stuff, then you couldn't go wrong with a decent 100lt slalom board, and a 50-60lt speed board. Sails from 5.0 - 6.6 should do the trick....
The Department of Transport has placed some pretty strict guidelines on us to hold this event in the 'trafficable waterways' of the Goolwa Lakes, and we will need a few weeks to get some approvals in place.
I've therefore made the decision to postpone the Marathon and Slalom race days (which need to place buoys in the channels), and run the GPS Speed day (which doesnot need buoys) on the weekend of June 21/22.
Stay tuned for an updated Flyer and new forum thread.
The first round of the KASailWINTERSERIES was held today at Boggy Lake. The forecast was very light and a few braved the cold conditions (5 deg when I got there this morning) to rig their biggest sails, boards and fins and slug it out for a figure eight one hour marathon. The fleet consisted of big slalom boards, sails around 7.5m / 9.0m and also Richard Upton on his Exocet Kona, looking very threatening in the light winds. Steve Roberts was on hand with his boat again, and after surviving a high speed blow-out whilst cornering on the way there, he eventually arrived and set the course for us with our shiny new inflatable buoys courtesy of Windsurfing SA.
The wind was slightly stronger for the first half of the event (around 15 knots max) and most of us were planing around the course. Sam Doecke took an early lead and managed to lap the entire fleet and myself (I was in second at that stage) and continued planing the whole time. The wind dropped a little towards the end and some of us could no longer get planing, but Nick Bellgrove came to the fore with his 9.0m and ended up battling it out with Sam for the lead.
In the end, the results for round one are:
1st - Sam Doecke 16 laps
2nd - Nick Bellgrove 16 laps
3rd - Chris Dimond 13 laps
4th - Joe Belluzzo 12 laps
5th - Richard Upton 10 laps
6th - Tim Hemer 8 laps
7th - Geoff Shuttleworth 7 laps
= 8th - David Lane 2 laps (retired)
= 8th - Milo Milutinovic 2 laps (retired)
Well done to Sam Doecke (can't believe he got a 36 knot peak too!!)
Thanks to all for participating.
Next weekend is round two. We will hold either Slalom or GPS Speed depending on the forecast. Hope to see you all there.
I've posted some photos in the photo section ,I'll try to get more up but the server keeps resetting. It was a great marathon and for those concerned I actually got home incident free 
Hey nice photos Steve. It's good to hear you made it back safely too. Thanks once again for the boat support - we'll miss you next weekend!
Cheers mate.
Great Photos Steve as I said on the other Thread "I thought today was good shame about the wind. Well done Chris and others for doing such a good job at organizing it." I wish I could have stayed longer good to be able to met some of you guys. When my Windsurfing Improves I might come down for a bit of fun.
Cheers Pittsy
Thanks to Chris for organising this event, and Steve for bringing his boat and sitting in the cold counting laps.
It was a good fun to be racing in close quarters - there is always someone in front to try and catch (or in my case someone behind to try and stay in front of !). There were some impressive demonstrations of sailing fast in light winds.
Sailing the Kona was fun, even though early planing is not its strong point. I was happy with the way it gybed around buoys given its size. I could still pick and chose my line.
In the One design Kona Class I (at 83 kg) should be using a 9.0 sail rather than a 7.0. I think I better pull my finger out and get myself a bigger sail.
