Go Heath!!..

Imagine that..

A first timmer Victorian winning it..

AndyR said..
So the race is on Sunday/mon morning for us.
What's everyone's predictions?
Travis two years in a row?
Kai for the first time?
Connor again?
Kalama again?
Someone else?

Women's race?

Prone
Brad again?
Matty Poole?
In the women's jordie again?

One thing SUPracer does a great job of getting people excited for it
www.supracer.com/molokai-2-oahu-live-updates/

Don't think it will be Brad Gaul in the Prone, according to the official start list (www.molokai2oahu.com/2014-start-list/) he is doing the 2-man Stock SUP with Tom Carroll.

I think last years result showed that choice of line is crucial and if some of the paddlers gamble with a slightly different line it could make or break their race. What will be interesting is how this will pan out as the top guys may watch each other and decide to sit on each other like Connor and Kai did last year. If they all batch up I'd give it to Connor as firm favorite - he just seems to be able to pull away at will. But if Kai, Kalama, Trudon, Travis (or maybe the NZ guy Armstrong) get on a good line it's going to be down to who has the juice on the day.

That race is so hard and it's going to awesome to watch - this site gives pretty good wind forecast but only for next 48hrs: http://weather.mhpcc.edu/wrf/all6/wind.html

The guru doesn't seem to be offering very much; 12-15knots, but the Easterly direction should work in favour of the paddlers. www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=287139&sty=m_spot

Mens,
1st Connor
2nd Scott Gamble
3rd Kai

Womens,
1st Sonni
2nd Devin
3rd Andrea

Just my unlimited picks anyways. After spending alot of time on maui recently with sonni she is looking the goods and she just got andrea in the recent maui race.

Good luck to all and have a safe crossing.

x angie

Is there app for this race ? I'll be working when it's on and would like to keep up to date with the race.

Cheers

Boylos

Scotty Mac said..
DJ, you vicco' s have such a complex! , Heath's an Aussie so Ozzie Ozzie oi oi oi!

I thought there were Aussies and then there were Currumbin Creekers.

It would be great to think that Dave Kalama could win it at more than twice Connor and Kai's age. It's doubtful that, if Dave can't do it now, anyone else ever will. But it might take a bigger blow than they are going to get, and bigger guys are at a disadvantage in the last crucial upwind section.

I would love to see Sonni win the women's: Perhaps it would be the first time this race has been won by a European? But local knowledge must mean a lot on a course like this, so I hope she gets some good advice from her boat crew.

nosaj27 said..

AndyR said..
So the race is on Sunday/mon morning for us.
What's everyone's predictions?
Travis two years in a row?
Kai for the first time?
Connor again?
Kalama again?
Someone else?

Women's race?

Prone
Brad again?
Matty Poole?
In the women's jordie again?

One thing SUPracer does a great job of getting people excited for it
www.supracer.com/molokai-2-oahu-live-updates/

Don't think it will be Brad Gaul in the Prone, according to the official start list (www.molokai2oahu.com/2014-start-list/) he is doing the 2-man Stock SUP with Tom Carroll.

That's correct. Gauly and Tom are doing a 2 man team stock SUP. Both Gauly and TC are fast on a SUP so they're in with a good chance.

Heath's a bit upset DJ as race organisers have told him he must wear the competition shirt.

Mens team Will Ando and Simon Dodd from the NSW Central Coast

Simon and Will just over an hour ago ready ready to go.

This dotvision is a cool way to track a sup race.
Supracer has crashed on me a couple times.. Must be a massive following on the site..
Sounds like an epic battle out there

Almost at half way and the SUP's are about to be level with the Prone paddlers who started half hour earlier.

In the SUP it's Travis leading then Conner, Scott Gamble, Kai and then Dave K

Remember that the dot tracking system is on the escort boats not the paddlers and the boats zoom around all over the place thus the reason the placing change so dramatically.

Looks like Conner 1st Travis 2nd Kai 3d

Superb effort on the green Starboard.

Sonni is the first European to win the M2O. Amazing effort.