ONBOARD OCTOBER LONGWEEKEND - Beachport
It's on again! October 1st, 2nd, 3rd 2011.
The annual Onboard longweekend at Beachport has been a lot of fun over the years, great wind, swell, beer and this year promises to be another ripper!!!
Neilpryde and Coopers have kindly donated prizes and product and maybe a new release windsurfing movie... fingers crossed!
The format for the weekend is super casual and based on 3 areas, Wavesailing, Speedsailing and SUP!
WAVESAILING
Wavesailing will be based from the Surf Beach carpark in Beachport on the Saturday and Sunday. Beachport works best in NW winds, however if we score SE or SW winds we can shoot to Robe as per last year!
The wavesailing will be run as an all in expression session with the presentation at the Beachport Hotel on Sunday night! Meet 10am Saturday morning at the carpark!
SPEEDSAILING
Speedsailing will be based on the spit at Lake George on Saturday and Sunday. All sailors will need a GPS and will need to update their top speeds daily on the competitors board daily! The fastest sailors (male and female) will be Crowned the winners! Presentation Sunday Night at the Beachport Hotel.
SUP
SUP will be based alongside the wavesailing at the Surf Beach in Beachport. Depending on the swell and wind conditions we will hold either an expression session or heats... we will call it on the day! Meet 10am Saturday at the Carpark!
Is anyone keen to volunteer to help setup? We'll need a couple of crew on the lake that are happy to throw some beer on ice and make sure that everyone posts their speeds fairly! We'll also need a few volunteers for the Wavesailing and SUP judging!
If anyone needs any further info on the weekend give me a call on (08) 8294 3866 of email us on info@onboardsurf.com.au
PS - Thanks to all who joined us on Friday night at the 2012 Severne Launch - Cheers Pete
Always keen to help out Pete,
Happy to help with wave sailing judging,
I will be winning the SUP comp, so better not help with deciding his :)
Cant wait!!! if the weather is anything like last year this event will be epic! sup in morning... sail in arvo.... sup at dusk! doesnt get any better! i heard the caravan park is going off this year with teenage girls.... 
to all the crew camping out the lake make sure you bring something for the $hitlods of mossies out there at the moment. yesterday morning i again had to rig up out in the wind to keep away from them,
was way flat along the spit running right in close with a 30 fin. plenty of water.
Jeez Jamie, if those squiggles are to scale then you need to tighten up the jibes abit. I reckon the Queen Mary could turn around quicker than that.
Pete, I can help with judging if you're short. More poley's that compete the better. Oh, by the way, I'm open to bribes[}:)]
Catch ya all on the weekend.
Grumpy
Carnt make it this year 
heading the other way"Yorkes" 
Had had a awesome time last year...Beachport is a fantastic place,
and the Onboard crew were great...
Here's some memories from last year...fun...fun...fun 
See you guys there. Looks like there is wind coming!
For me this October long weekend will be better than the last as I will not be in a plastic moon boot.
Hey hey,
Bring on the sun, wind and heat. Am forever hopeful. Anyway am thinking of heading down to the beautiful beachport and wonderful if anyone has a spare possie for me to roll out my swag?
Hey Zubby how can you count on wind so far from the event???
Have you got a mean Curry recipe???
(great vid once again Kym, brings back some wiked memories)
Winter woolies may be in order - I'm sure I saw an iceberg there at Easter this year - but at was still 5 degrees warmer than the water in San Francisco when we were there during last years beachport event
everyone who is anyone is staying in the van park on the foreshore!! gunna be a good weekend.
Can't wait to be sailing the lake again. Looks like Friday will be good, it will be good to catch up with all the guys for a beer or to.
Hey Jamie and pillie - what's the best bet for Friday arvo if it's sw around beachport - sailing from the drain, surf beach or somewhere else - looks like it may be sw by the time we arrive - not sure if we'll have much time to search far past bport - what's your recommendation -pref ocean -cheers
if u had some time rush my 2 sw spots might be worth checking friday wich would be an exra hour on, but because adelaide cars pack up and die or something and cant get past beachport
lol, id check first ramp robe with a 3m swell it could be knee to head high? and at least side shore. saying that i have never had a memorable bearaway there but good jumping.
reckon the wave sailing will be at robe as its going dead south and strong for sat then gone by sun
all b/s aside beachport needs nw w wsw, sw is ONSHORE
lol, id check first ramp robe with a 3m swell it could be knee to head high? and at least side shore. saying that i have never had a memorable bearaway there but good jumping. for sat then gone by sun
lol, id check first ramp robe with a 3m swell it could be knee to head high? and at least side shore. saying that i have never had a memorable bearaway there but good jumping. for sat then gone by sun
take away the latte's, coopers and teenage girls and you mob are lost.
the days of a pre lunch 20k northerly on the mid and brunch at agatha's cafe (is that place still there at port noarlunga?) are over for me, its more eski and thermos down here unless your sailing close to port mac
Beware I have a shotgun (well a NERF machine gun) and one of those teenage girls is my daughter!!!
i can do the judging gig on saturday if you want pete or can wax it a bit with HAAK and we can both get a bit of water action in during the day.
big game of footy on but both teams bite it in my opinion
ANy chance someone can grab my board and a couple of sails from blackwood if they were going thru the hills to the freeway.
Ive got the rig with me after trying to get a snow sailor going.
Im in Falls Creek and i reckon i could make that gig on my way thru back to gero
let me know??
thanks
Pilchard u sailing tomorrow? I'm heading down and will be in Beachport just before lunch. Keen to explore and find some were half decent!
have a meeting in millicent at 9am hail so depending on when you hit beachport u could sus it out there and call me to head up or if its not favourable you could head further south and meet me at millicent then i could give the tour of the treasures, either way we should get wet
text or call 0487147887 fingers crossed as its meant to have more west in it in the arvo so b-port might be worth waiting around for even if its sw early.
super stoked
Pilly,
Thursday & Friday look good for Pinchgut or Browns, bring it on.
Text me if you're back this way Thursday arvo.
hope to convince chris to try something our way, pretty sure something will take his eye
talk tomorrow mate
