Hi everyone,
We had some great sailing the last few weeks in NSW. A couple of days with 35 knots!
The website is up and we are justing adding some details re divisions and entry etc. Check it out, especially the 'Hall of Fame' of past winners.http://australianwavesailingchampionship.com
cheers
Tim Williams
NSW WA President
What an awesome job guys, especially considering the short time since the last one!
The Oz wave sailing crew are lucky to have you guys doing all the hard yards, thanks heaps Tim, Ben and others!
Yewww it's been blowing up here too!!
Great site. Well done.
Although, after this line "If you're reading this overseas, then please do click through this website to understand why you should come to Australia to take part in this event...", you might want to add the disclaimer "If you finish in the top 3, your result may be wiped if one of the locals gets upset about losing to you".
Good luck for this years event.
To clear up the overseas/not Australian competitor situation, where ever you end up in the rankings, local or otherwise will stand. Someone from overseas can become the winner of the Australian National Wavesailing Championship.
We want to encourage the best wavesailors to enter, not just locals.
Thanks
If only that was enforced a few years ago to avoid that very situation.
Anyway, totally agree with you Ben. The more the merrier, no matter where they're from.
It's come up a few times over the years. Pete voltwater was involved in one I think. Not too big a deal at the godly, Alex didn't care he still got second and was happy. As long as they make it clear from the start.
I'd like to see a phillip costa V Jaeger final in decent DTL.
my money is on the aussie.
is there another country that also has this open door policy that are pretty average wave sailors? might go there and have a crack.
It's all semantics really isn't it?
We're looking for the best person to win the 2013 Australian Wavesailing Championship as opposed to how Duncan put it, suggesting we're looking for the Australian champion.
The Contest Director and other organisers have confirmed that the best will win, whatever nationality and this will not change.
Cheers
Not against it in any way. Just first I'd heard of it. But as dan says if it stipulated in advance no one can really complain.
Unless of course I get stuey first round again....oh wait he's from Newcastle
It's pretty simple really. If the contest officials accept a signed entry form and payment from any competitor, then that competitor is entitled to officially win the contest/trophy/prize money, etc, and no other competitor has the right to challenge that.
Speaking of entries, can we submit them now for this years event?
Here you go:
auswavesailing.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/application-for-2013-australian-national-wavesailing-championships.pdf
If you are writing a cheque and mailing it to Warren, please also email him so he is able to start the seeding/ranking process.
Thanks!
I think from memory they gave him trophy for second place but not recorded in the records ( something like that, can't really remember). Not sure what happened the voltwater? Levi was a similar deal in tassie the year George won from memory
Just to confirm (I'm sure you know this anyway) the organisers of the 2013 Nationals have no control of what happened in the past. All we can do is guarantee any overseas competitors placing will stand (as it should) and hope/recommend/set in place this standard/approach for future events in other states.
As Dan has pointed out, the great thing is that no one has disagreed with this approach - although in fairness only three people are actually talking about it on here!
Boris, I don't understand why you are so interested seeing as you live in a land-locked sovereign city-state?
Thanks Zack.
You may all recall that we had a post on Seabreeze to help identify who won which event www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Wave-sailing/Help-IDing-of-all-National-Wavesailing-Winners/. This gave everyone (who visits Seabreeze) an opportunity to indicate if names were incorrect.
Two events that caused more questions than any other were the 2007 GC event where we know that Alex came second and the last event where people were moved from Masters to Grand Masters etc...
Unfortunately (so I believe) there were complaints at the GC event that an International sailor was in the top three and as such, for records, his name was not on the place getters list (although Zack, your article suggests otherwise - I cannot load it up).
So, I refer to my last post - we cannot change what past organisers of Nationals decided to to do with International sailors. As for the list on the Nationals website, there is a caveat to say that it is not complete and open to discussion/edits. Finally, you may notice that Peter Volwater is documented as 2nd place at the 2005 Lancelin event; so we don't delete international sailors from the list!
We're trying to put together something that will document the best windsurfing discipline and ideally will attract international sailors to future events.
Lets move on!!
It would be nice to see Voltwater, Dunkerbeck and co head east but I think it clashes with the Marg's comp. For those who don't know, many years ago a certain Mr B.Dunkerbeck turned up at Gerroa at the start of his sailing career. So he knows of the place.
As long as its made clear from the get go ( which i believe they have already done) there is no issue that I can see. I even read it 3 times. Get over it.
