Kristi Page, Justin Ormonde and Nick Maloney hooked up to paddle in epic conditions last Friday. Justin and Kristi have been out in up to 50kn on Corio Bay before and Kristi loves the Big Wind but this had other surprises.

This was Kristi's 3rd run on the SIC 14 Bullet and it is a cracker of a board, she loves in it open ocean swell and for this run the rudder was a must as they had to tack in and out to get through the cross winds to Addis.

Often they would disappear into the troughs and you couldnt see them at all.



Kristi and Justin after the Cosey Corner to Breamlea 10km down winder.


Nick Maloney scooting around a buoy at the Port Phillip Cup the day after the epic down winder.

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Huge thanks to Justin and Nick for an all time day on the water!

Phill

Kristi and I are going to do a lot of dedicated offshore paddling over the next 12 months.

We have looked at lots of options but for the specific areas we want to paddle and the huge range of conditions we will encounter the SIC Bullet wins hands down.

I tried out Justin Ormonds 17.4 Bullet and fell in love with it.

Kristi's 14ft SIC Bullet was delivered last week and I would like to thank Sam from Wind Surf and Snow and Downwinder from this site for all their assistance in answering the huge quantity of dumb ass questions I had.Thanks to Justin Ormonde for letting me take his baby for a spin (I had never used a rudder in the ocean before and have very limited offshore experience). The 17.4 Bullet was 26 and a smidge wide and frankly I expected to be in the water more than on the board but after abour 1 1/2 hours the only time I went for a dip was when I wanted to. Justin your a legend for helping Kristi out getting the hang of the Bullet she had a ball yesterday.



Kristi's Bullet:











Vid from yesterday: (sorry about the quality my Imovie skills suck)
Justin Ormonde SIC 17.4 Bullet Kristi Page SIC 14 Bullet