After being here a week, and a few runs with the hawaiian and aussies crew we are all gearing up for the race tomorrow.

The race will be 9.5 miles (approx 15.5 km) starting at 9am ( Australian time-monday morning) - staggered starts from within Maliko Gulch and straight into Kahalui harbour.

Here is a few pics from the last few days... with yesterday afternoon being one of the best so far! Some of the quickest and longest runners we have had since we got here!


- F16... SIC.My board for the race

AliCat and I with our boards. 17ft Naish and the F16

loading up our ride...

everyone on board... Phil, Alicat, Jas, Ang, Steve, Jacko, Courtenay, Fernanda,Will, Simon, Joel, Jackson, Larry, Kelly and myself..a record number!

view of where the race will be run

Downwinder and Hux taking off

F14 - Vision.

The entry at Maliko Gulch

Turtles... (speed bumps aka the mine field)

Lucky buggers , geez you are all gunna be fit.What is the difference between downwinders over their and here?

sounds like awesome fun good luck alison and aussies

Good luck to everyone for tommorrow and keep the pics coming ..... awesome!

Boylos

Very nice pic of 2 very nice boards !! I like the thought of a little more width & volume, a little further forward, on the F-16 v's the 17 Glide. But that F-16 looks like at least an F-16.5 ! Maybe it's the camera angle, and the F-16 is slightly closer...

Great Photos Jen,

Looks like you guys are having a blast.

How did you go today?

Best wishes to all/

Phill and Kristi.

hilly said...

Awsome looking board and a great run.

Say hi to Courts for me and ask him to bring an F-16 back for me

G'day Hilly
Been paddling with Courts everyday (hope to interview Courts today - putting a small doco together - So hope to make it easyer for the aussies who are keen to come over to Maui for a Maliko Run) but Courts got sick & mist a great downwind run the other day. Me best run to date is 15k's in 71 minutes
DW

DavidJohn said...

Thanks for the pictures Jen.. Good luck for tomorrow..

DJ

G'ady DJ
got many unreal pics I'll post them soon as I can get my hands on'em.

DJ
the day Dave Kalama paddled Maliko in 53 minutes. That week the winds were 35 knots just neucking everyone was smashing records & the prone paddleboarders were s###ting themselves & put legropes on Maliko was just a white water rapid.
DW

teatrea said...

Lucky buggers , geez you are all gunna be fit.What is the difference between downwinders over their and here?

There's no comparison to be made, even a sh!tty run here is as good as the best we get back home.
According to DW it's like a surfer heading to indo to get endless supply of perfect waves.

Downwinder said...

laceys lane said...

we had the total opposite today. from new brighton to byron bay 18 k's of up wind, up swell, up everything. it was the coffs harbour saturday race last year all over again. can only sit and stew about what all the crew are scoring. good luck with the race all
cheers

Lacey the aussies who put these downwind races together in Australia mate just can't get it a bugger paddling into the wind (its the same a p###ing into the wind) you can have that.
save ya $$$$ lacey Maliko will blow your mind & the Maui girls are just gorgeous I can't stop drooling I want to defect & live on Maui.
DW

yeah phil, it wasn't a race we really wonted to do, but we had to go, so hopefully they'll include us next year with some sup people input. maybe, organizers will be able give us more of what we need. i personally don't think it's a good look for the sport to have people slugging it out in wrong conditions .ideally and it's a tough task for the event people, a mobile sup section in these events would be able to make the most of the conditions available. i reckon everyone in sup divisions would be keen to help with that
cheers
ps. thx's to the bryon bay ocean paddlers club for the 2 day event
pps yeah phil, i'll start saving for sure

Hey guys.... wow what an amazing race! ended up 7th in the womens overall and 6th in my division... had all of the elite racers in my division (andrea moller, chantelle strome, devon blish, so to get 6th in my division and 7th overall - Im super stoked!

Wow thats unreal Jen well done congrates on a great race. Go The Aussies

Rob