SA Wave Titles 14th Aug 10 am Middleton

CANT WAIT!!

Shake & Bake

You put the mockers on it Hail. It's a northerly!

Hi all - we are on for Middleton (Day Street) sign up from 10 am.

There are reportedly 1-2 foot waves Middleton through to Goolwa with the odd bigger sets (surfsouthoz) so there should be some wave action an Day street with an increasing swell this afternoon.

First expression session planned for 11

Open Expression session around 12
Open finals around 1245.

wrap upby 1330 - free sailing till you drop

See you all there

Fingers Crossed and good luck guys. Sorry, cant be there , gotta go to Wallaroo for a gig with my band

Hi folks - good turn out - great wind - swell was a little small and set waves were hard to come by but some great sailing was going down.

wind kicked in right on cue at 1130 and 5.0m sails and smaller were the weapons of choice.

The first round expression session was great with 10 social sailors and 7 from the open group hitting the water.

The social sessions that got the vote for the day:

1st Place Darren Zub gauging some big top turns and throwing buckets on the RRD twinnie
2nd Place Richard Upton - got some great waves and some laying some nice top and bottom turns

3rd Place Russell Hunt with a couple of nice waves

Womens division went to Kim Symonds with a strong performance in difficult conditions with a couple of great waves

The open Mens expression session was called as the final with all 6 entrants and there was some big air moves, buckets of spray and great wave riding. The guys had difficult conditions as the wind kicked to 25-30 knts and most were well and truely powered up.

The judges scoring

1st Place Scott McKluskey with a wave and jump total of 83 - landed and sailed away from some nice forwards and managed to get some nice down the line waves in the western end of the contest zone.

2nd place - Mark Smith - 74 points - some great jumps, and waves in his usual smooth style

3rd place Chris Hail 64 points - with some sweet table tops and some well time wave guages.

4th Cain Jeffries 50 points with some nice cheese rolls and some great of the to turns

5th Ty Roberts again with some nice waves and a few big air moves

6th James Thomson - with a few nice waves iat the far eastern end of the comp zone.

(i hope I spelt everyones names right as I don't have the official list with me - apologies if I didn't)


All together it was good day, hope everyone enjoyed themselves and look forward to the next one.

Cheers to Onboard for the NPX assasin wetsuit for the open winner, Tru Blue Hire for the use of the generator, Chris Hail for getting all our backsides into gear and running the event, Johnnie "Chops" Sellars for PA and commentating, Marti Sellars for coordinating the judging, Richard Upton for organising the sign up and Vicki for her skills on the BBQ, Dave and Kim for helping set up and all the sailors that respected the finals area and let the crew sail on their own.

Well done crew - fingers crossed for some bigger waves next time around. Hope fully their will be a few piccies in the near future

Cheers

Russ - on behalf of the organising crew

P.s Monies and registrations will go through to Windsurfing SA this week and your insurance cover statrted from today. Your previous sail numbers will stand - we will post the updated registartion list in a week or so.

Yep, big thanks to everyone who had a hand in getting the show on the road, and to the sailors who signed up.

Your Windsurfing SA membership will be good for all the WSA events in the year, including the wave events scheduled for Beachport in October, West Coast in Jan, Robe at Easter and the social wave sailing events.

Thanks too to the Kite Association for the loan of the PA - much appreciated. We will make an effort to make it easier for the judges to identify sailors next time too. Sail numbers are good place to start everyone , and we will try to get some coloured vests for the open guys.

It was great to see people pushing hard to make the most of the conditions - nothing like a comp to fire up your sailing I reckon.

P.S. If I can get a place based on wave selection, there is hope for everyone - not my strongest suite in the past

had to go to grannies 80th, so only got out before. she didnt stop me from going out today and ripping my sail.

awesome fun event. just wish the waves were a tad bigger. well actually double what they were! thanks for every one for showing up! it makes everything worth while when people have a good time! will hopefully have one more get together towards end of winter!