Travis in front first to China walls

go Travis

Woohoo go Trav & Terrene!

Trav has got it! Just coming up to the finish line now!

Sound like he smashed it!! Few hundred metres to go and Connor "a distant 2nd, Kai 3rd" right now!

Congratulations Travis excellent race, well done!

angie pangi said..

OMG Terrene Black PADDLE!!!!! Go time

Aussie's are cleaning up :)

Congrats Trav you totally deserve it buddy.

XX angie

Amazing!!!! I just danced around my loungeroom with my undies on my head!!!

You don't want to know what happens if Terrene wins as well

Prone top ten, full of Australians.

?1 ?1 ?5:05:32 ?Brad Gaul ?AUS PDB UNL M30-39
?2 ?44 ?5:07:49 ?Cam Cole ? AUS ?PDB UNL M01-29
?3 ?94 ?5:11:09 ?Matt Poole ?AUS ?PDB UNL M01-29
?4 ?2 ?5:19:47 ?Jackson English ?SING ?PDB UNL M30-39
?5 ?4 ?5:26:14 ?Michael Porra ?AUS ?PDB UNL M50-99
?6 ?40 ?5:28:10 ?Rory Chapman ?AUS ?PDB UNL M01-29
?7 ?3 ?5:32:05 ?Brian Rocheleau ?USA ?PDB UNL M30-39
?8 ?78 ?5:39:23 ?Alistair Maney ?NZL ?PDB UNL M01-29
?9 ?101 ?5:45:24 ?Daniel Shade ?AUS ?PDB UNL M30-39
?10 ?6 ?5:46:13 ?Zeb Walsh ? AUS ?PDB STK M30-39

Wow - Mick Porra in 5th. Mick would be 54ish.
He told me he had a goal of Top 5 - awesome

Massive Congratulations to Brad and Mick, and all done on Australian designed and built boards and rudders

surfer56 said..

Top effort Australia,but does this mean Conner will be on a stickered up DC next yearc

I'm pretty sure you'll actually find that CMC (aka. Mr NSP) has already said on the other thread that Travis's board was shaped by a local Hawaiian Billy Robello - a local hawaiian shaper, waterman and "great customer of NSP in Hawaii".

And Terrene, having signed with NSP only a day or two before heading to Hawaii, was paddling the same Maui built SIC f16 that she bought for last summer in Hawaii and rode to 3rd place in last year's Molokai race (one of Connor's old boards).

I won't say too much more here (because there's a whole other thread to debate that topic), but in my opinion (having done this race twice), riding a custom/local shaper's board (including, for arguments sake, a hand-shaped Maui built SIC) for a race like Molokai is no reason for NSP/DC to be any less proud of the achievements of their team!

Travis & Terrene have raced the Hawaiian's in their own waters, on Hawaiian made boards, and beaten them all! They've proven they're the strongest paddlers on the day! What sponsor wouldn't be proud of that?

Piros said..
the prone boys we went 1 , 2 & 3

Could almost add 4, 5 & 6 to that as well. Jackson English (4th) is an Aussie ex-pat who moved to Singapore a few years back, and 5th & 6th were Aussies too!

But even with complete domination of the prone race, I still get the feeling that it's the SUP victories that define this years race. We've held the prone stage at this race for many years, but it's a first for SUP, and firsts are always pretty special!

Still got to give the Hawaiians credit out of the top 10 Sup Men they took 7 of those places & 5 out of the 10 for the Women Sup, that is massive depth.

I guess that depth some what has to do with the location. You cant take anything away from the Hawaiians, they are strong at this game. It would be interesting to see the results if an event equally as big and prestigious was run here in Oz and how many would travel all this way to have a crack...

akhawk said..
What is the prize money for m20? Wonder how it compares to the dr race which is now putting up some good $'s.

This year the SUP Prize money is:
Overall Sup: 1st $3000, 2nd $1000, 3rd $500
Stock Sup (14ft) Overall: 1st $1000, 2nd $500, 3rd $250
Overall Women Sup (Unlimited or Stock): 1st $3000, 2nd $1000, 3rd $500

The paddle board money is the same.

But Molokai has always been, and in my opinion will always be, about the challenge and the race to most of the athletes, rather than about the prize purse! The race has sold out weeks before the closing date for at least the last 3 years, and last time I did it in 2011, I'm pretty sure 1st prize was $750 = just enough to cover your escort boat, and the race was still sold out early. So it's not a race you do just for the money.