Huge thank you to all the volunteers who didnt compete but gave up their time and effort in blazing hot conditions to help out and ensure things ran smoothly. There were many people doing coast watch for the marathon race, marshalling for the Technical Race, slaving over BBQs assisting with judging, wives, friends, family, girl and boy friends who simply just helped out and made life easier. High fives all round cheers.

Thank you to the Water Safety Team for a huge effort yesterday and some long hot hours on the skis you were a critical component in the success.

Congrats to everyone who Surfed and Raced yesterday it was a mamouth effort in the heat by all competitors and to the guys and girls that backed up racing with surfing or in some cases raced surfed then raced again, you guys rock. I was only shooting images and I was shattered when I got home I dont know how you achieved what you achieved but I was sure impressed to see you do it!

SUP Vic, Bass SUP and Surf Vic did a ball breaking effort to get this event to work, dotted i's and crossed t's they didnt even know they had to until this event ran.

The sponsors Core Board Sports, Strapper, VB, Kahuna Street SUP, Hive Swimwear, Farm Foods etc the stand alone event would simply not have been possible without you.

Special mention to a great all round bloke Rich Bartle who gave up the whole day to help out a mate enough said.

Special thanks to Teeps for getting Kristi's board to the beach for the Tech Race and for everyone giving her a cheer when she finally hit the beach, she hit the wall in the heat but just didnt want to give up.



The early

The other Early






The Breifing



Courtney

Banaccas

MJ

Sparkles

Matt Takle

John Takle

Kristi and Lucy



Tech Race

Hi justin
You did a great job yesterday, watched you from the shore at posses , well done and glad to. Hear you are doing well
Well done suring Vic , supvic and bass up, what agreat day and watched great surfing and paddeling

Fantastic pictures Phill.. Thanks.

DJ

looks like some good surfing going down

TheBulldog said...

I want to say thank you to all the water patrol for being so great and helping me out when the day went so wrong for me, you guys are all amazing. A BIG thank you must go out to my friend Rich Bartle who sat with me and my wife and son through out the whole ordeal including driving with us to seek medical attention and then he went all the way back to the start to pick my car up. I had a damn terrible day but it could have been so much worse without great people like you. THANKS

Hope you are ok. What happened?

Thanks Camo, that map in conjunction with a fairly stiff northerly wind goes some way to explaining why my right shoulder is so tender today. Nevertheless, it was a great fun course and I would love to do it again soon.

I was so pleased to see Camo win on the 14' Ace; amazing that he only had a day or two to practice on it. Of course, Jean notching up the women's state championship in both race distances in the one day is a remarkable achievement. And Heath's effort to back up from the marathon, then suffer some equipment problems early in the technical race, but still manage to paddle over the top of the field and win was so inspiring to see. Just goes to show what happens if you refuse to give up.

Well done to all the winners and place getters.

Can't wait for the nationals.

camo hosk said...

downloaded from the gps I attached to the 14 Ace

I heard a rumour it was a measure put in place to make sure you paddled the correct course Cam! We all didn't want to see you disqualified for not staying the course!

Not that you would ever do that, right?