Ahhhh, what a shocker.

After some quite good forecasts earlier in the week, it all turned horrible and we were greeted with a 15 knot NE'er - right on the nose. Yep a 15 knot headwind for the entire 11 kilometres. Now that's not fun. Not fun at all.

But we struggled on regardless, past some amazing Sydney Harbour landmarks, real estate and super yachts. The highlight for me was paddling under the Harbour Bridge - that's pretty cool.

At least it'll make any other race we do relatively easy.

400 entrants in the paddle division, 20 of them SUPs.

Here are some of the results:

1 Peter "PeteJoseph" MEYER - 1:49:19 (Naish 17')
2 Stuart "Suplove" MURRAY - 1:55:57 (C4 14')
3 Andrew "Casso" CASSIDY - 2:08:51 (DC 12'6)
4 Peter MORGAN - 2:09:56 (Starboard 14')
5 John "Goatman" CHRISTENSEN - 2:23:04 (PSH 12')
6 Andrew TITTERTON - 2:23:12 (Oxbow 12')
? Matt JOHNSTON - 2:26:16 (?)
? Dan NEAVE - 2:37:32 (?)
? Dan "DTM" CLEARY - 2:57:38 (PSH 12')
? Mark "GSI" KELLY - 3:03:15 (7S 12')
? Sam "WindSurfnSnow" PARKER - Withdrawn (Naish 17')