L2L said...

Would the race be delayed for a later afternoon start to take advantage of stronger winds?

That Yellow Brick app was garbage! Please let them know it didn't work!!

AGK said...
Couldn't agree more with dachopper. I was hoping for decent accuracy. Trac trac that the 505's use is 100% better. At one stage my mate was doing 583kn?? Rubbish. Not worth the $$ even if it was only 2.99. That's half a schooner at the bowlo.

I went over to Rotto as a volunteer and downloaded the app to track the race.

I'm home now, it's 5.47pm and there are still guys at the start line.

Hope someone is keeping an eye on them!

Where do I get my money back!!!!!!

Hope everyone had great race!

Yup. Couldn't make it so I did the app thing too.. What a crock of turd burger... :(

Lorgra said...

AGK said...
Couldn't agree more with dachopper. I was hoping for decent accuracy. Trac trac that the 505's use is 100% better. At one stage my mate was doing 583kn?? Rubbish. Not worth the $$ even if it was only 2.99. That's half a schooner at the bowlo.

I went over to Rotto as a volunteer and downloaded the app to track the race.

I'm home now, it's 5.47pm and there are still guys at the start line.

Hope someone is keeping an eye on them!

Where do I get my money back!!!!!!

Hope everyone had great race!

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It was awesome! Thanks everyone for very enjoyable afternoon!

Was hoping to buy some shirts or some gadgets like I do on the Red Bull Air Race in Perth. Maybe next year:)

Start:



Finish:

I want to see the results :(

its all getting a lot smoother, great job to Tim and crew well done.

look forward to next year !!!!!
thanks again !!!

PS
extra thanks to volunteers :) !!!

Yep great event
Worth the trip over from the east.
Thanx to the organisers
Thanks to all the volunteers that help out on the beaches.
Thanx to redbull for picking up the tab on the bar tonight.
And even better I don't have to wait till the draw to book my ticket :-)

Results anyone?

Great event WAKSA!! The crowd loved the tumble at the end and the jump by the guy in 2nd place, was almost scripted here are a few pics

Locals rule. Okay jonno and dale you guys deserved it!
Thanks to red bull and Tim turner for an epic event!
Next year there will be some top world racers to challenge the locals.

Rock on

Great event again, Thanks to Tim, all the sponsors, WAKSA and especially the volunteer who saved me 3 minutes before the race when I was all thumbs trying to sort out my lines for the 6th time.

Another great event thanks to Tim and the waksa team and all helps yesterday
Awesome day thanks

Results!

Congratulations to all Johhno, Dale, Phil and Keira and all competitors who completed the 2012 Red Bull Lighthouse to Leighton.

As well as BIG thank you to ALL the Volunteers and especially to the two finish teams who surveyed (late in to the night) over 700 photographs, video footage and Yellow Brick data (which as we discovered did not work to our expectation) to deliver the attached results sheets. It is an unenviable and difficult task trying to record the finishers!

A full printed list with your

name and time will be delivered as soon as possible.

I'm still stoked.

Thanks to everyone who made this event happen!

I decided to give the 16m a crack thinking the wind would hover around 17knots max. What a mistake that was.

I made 2 tacks and couldn't keep my board on the water. With 26min to the final gun I bit the bullet and thought - gotta swap kites.

Sprinted like Usane Bolt back to where the kites were packed up. Found the 9m and ran back to the beach.

The whole time thinking I might waste this opportunity to have a cracker of a race and miss the start.

Kite getting pumped was all good, my lines were all tangled up ( Slingshot put some colour in your lines please, white on white - you get the picture)

After much heartbeat and adrenalin kite was launched with 6min before the gun!!!Woooooooooooooooooooo Hooooooooooooo
The 9m Fuel felt perfect!

I made my way north to the natural jetty and just with 35 seconds to go slowly moved to the start. I finished 24 (I think) in 32 min. But when I really think about it my race stated the moment I decided to swap kites.

Thank you Issac, the one armed volunteer who helped me out. Aussie champ.

That's my second race and hands down my favorite.