G'day everyone,

Tomorrow sees the first NSW GPS Freerace day for the summer. Forecast is for a 15-20 kt seabreeze, filling in throughout the afternoon. A classic Kyeemagh day.

Even if you don't have a GPS or don't want to enter the competition, come along for a fun sail (no cost unless you want to race) and help make this a massive day of fun and socialising.

For those who are keen to be part of the freerace competition, the plan is to meet at the top carpark around lunchtime for registration (look for the YELLOW STORMRIDERS trailer) and rigging up, then hopefully run at least two 30 minute freerace sessions during the afternoon. The actual start time will depend on the wind.

Each session will commence with a "le-mans" beach start with everyone standing with their gear on the waters edge, before the start flag is raised. Then its a scramble as everyone sails away and tries to go as fast as they can for the 30 minutes. A big flag will be on the shore to show when the session is "active" - when the 30 minutes is over the flag will be taken down, so everyone will know the session is finished.

Please leave your GPS turned on and running all afternoon - the special KA72 freerace software will take care of splitting up sessions etc.

At the end of the day, I will copy the files off your GPS memory card then process them once I get home.

The course area is shown below. Please stay upwind of the line between the end of the runway and the "South Ramp". You can still do speed runs down the runway if you want to, but for safety we have restricted the area past the runway. Please don't sail to Kurnell during the race as it won't count. This boundary has been set up on the KA72 Freerace software so if you go outside this area, you will get a zero speed until you sail back into the course area.





Remember its just $20 to be part of the competition. All the money raised goes to cover the costs of the event (boat fuel, maritime permits etc) and any leftovers gets invested back into the clubs that make up WindsurfingNSW. Looking forward to a great day!

Thanks again to Dylan from KA72 for the assistance and provision of the Freerace Master software.

Cheers
James