Here are the results of the SUP race euopean title

POSITION NAME TIME Size Board

1 PATTERSON CHUCK1 13 50 17’ Hobie
2 TERRIEN ERIC 1 16 38 12’6 Nidecker
3 RICO LEROY 1 16 45 14’ DC
4 KURT BYRON 1 17 05 12’6 Hobie12’6
5 CLOSIER GREG 1 22 15 unlimited
6 LEGIER BENOIT 1 22 43 unlimited
7 KOSTKA THIERRY 1 22 49 unlimited
8 BONNEF FRED 1 23 05 unlimited
9 NOYELLE RENAUD 1 23 10 12’6
10 CORNIC ALBAN 1 23 55 unlimited
11 ANDRE BRUNO 1 24 06 12’6
12 GASBARO FABRIZI 1 24 17 12’6
13 ETIENNE STEPHAN 1 25 20 14’
14 LEONARD NIKA 1 26 00 14’
15 ALVAREZ NATO 1 27 10 14’
16 BOTREL RONAN 1 28 08 unlimited
17 LENEIL DIDIER 1 28 10 12’6
18 FULGONI FABIEN 1 28 11 14’
19 ROUTIER SYLVAIN 1 28 12 14’
20 CAMIS CAMARA 1 29 05 12’6
21 STEVENS TERY 1 29 20 unlimited
22 SERVER CHRIS 1 29 47 unlimited
23 CHRISTOL ROBIN 1 30 29 unlimited
24 LAVIE REMY 1 30 35 12’6
25 COLIN PATRICK 1 30 58 12’6
26 MAUDET DOMINI 1 32 28 12’6
27 ANDREAS WOLTER 1 32 29 14’
28 LANGLOIS LULU 1 32 49 12’6
29 THEELEN FRANCK 1 34 15
30 POUGET PASCAL 1 35 50 12’6


I only know wich board brand the 4 first were using
Each category started 1’30” apart, unlimited going 1st then 14’ then 12’6”
A bit of a pity because it would have been interesting to see if rico and eric could have stayed close to chuck had they been together from the start
Amazing performance from Eric Terrien on a 12’6. He is from canary island and for those who are not into winter sport, Nidecker is a Swiss brand manufacturing snowboards. Eric is the one developing the SUP for them apparently they are not too bad.....
And thanks to Rico to come after wining the surf tandem comp part of the world tour on saturday 600km from there in the basque country, driving at night getting here at 6am and then sleeping in his car before the midday start!

Imagine if chuck had not been here on a 17’ it would be hard to explain why buying a long SUP, the 2nd unlimited comes more than 5 minutes behind eric, rico and kurt!!
It’s all about the engine....

Apparently the week end was fantastic and the organisation perfect. It will be on next year again, if anybody is in europe it’s worth getting there.
It’s ½ hour from Cannes and just after the movie festival so you if you have a gopro movie of yourself you might even want to send it to the jury


here is the start of saturday's short distance with eric terrien (nidecker 12'6) in front of chuck patterson (hobie 14')

We really need to stop listing the results of any races in this way.

If it is listed like this there needs to be a class results list above or below it. Why compare a 12'6 to someone on a 17'??

I was talking to a certain other Seabreeze contributor the other day and how every race the results say oh so and so won the race. He was in a single class and first over the line.

Women, people on smaller boards etc etc come later and win the class but get no recognition of their effort or win which may be actually greater than the line honours winner from a seperate class. If that said winner was in the same class (17') he may have lost to the guy on the 12'6 but gets all the credit.

Thoughts anyone??

what distance was the race mate ?

Thanks Alain great to see one of Dales boards up there , have you got anymore photo's?
Rob

My point was that all we seem to recognise is the first few people over the line. People in other classes have also done exceptionally well but receive no credit. The womens winner 12'6 example may be 15th over the line in total. Does anyone give her credit? No she came 15th. But she actually won.

It's no different in any other sport Triatholns , Marathons , Coolangatta Gold , Molokai ect ect.....Plus there are going to be races where a 14 will beat a 17 especially here in Aus where our courses often run into and cross wind during the races.

Rob

Starlet gc said...

CMC said...

We really need to stop listing the results of any races in this way.

If it is listed like this there needs to be a class results list above or below it. Why compare a 12'6 to someone on a 17'??

I was talking to a certain other Seabreeze contributor the other day and how every race the results say oh so and so won the race. He was in a single class and first over the line.

Women, people on smaller boards etc etc come later and win the class but get no recognition of their effort or win which may be actually greater than the line honours winner from a seperate class. If that said winner was in the same class (17') he may have lost to the guy on the 12'6 but gets all the credit.

Thoughts anyone??

I totally agree CMC and a classic example will be at the excel race coming up... womens division is just unlimited due to numbers.. some of us girls will have 12'6,14,and 17ft boards... all competiting in the one division..

It will be interesting as the sports develop as to how the classes will be seperated...if at all?

I would have thought the classes would stick with 12'6, 14 and unlim - easy, simple and already in place.

As for not breaking results out into classes/divisions/mens & womens the only reasons I can think of are poor software or lazyness. Having said that if your racing smaller fields than it might not be worth breaking it up because you might have a devision with 1 craft in it. The first race I ever did in a Byte (sailing dingy) I got 3rd - there where only 3 boats kinda takes the shine off it.

When are the SUP race Ausie titles? I'm sure we could fix all these issues before then.

Does the guy on the right with red shorts and white vest have a spare paddle? Or is it some sort of steering device?

What about our closest relation in paddling sport? Outrigging. You may have the start time at the same moment but in reality there are 10 races happening at once.

Yeah that was my point they all raced together and the class wins are sorted out later , there is only one line honour , I'm assuming it's the same in the French race as they have specifically specified the classes and they were all started separately .Alain has just posted overall finish times.The photo of the mass start is the short course race.

If they were all competing against each other they would have started together in the long course. Alain can you confirm this ?

Rob

WINDSURFnSNOW said...

Crazy fast paddling. The winner was doing around 11.5km/h if it was as they say a 14km race.

That's flying!

thats quick hey. how strong was the tail wind if any ?

THOSE BARK BOARDS LOOK FAST.

and what about the brown board on the beach (midpack), face down with 2 big paralell fins so far from the back of the board!!!

Al Hunter said...

and what about the brown board on the beach (midpack), face down with 2 big paralell fins so far from the back of the board!!!

How is the fin set up , I bet it does a great kick turn

Rob

Piros said...

Al Hunter said...

and what about the brown board on the beach (midpack), face down with 2 big paralell fins so far from the back of the board!!!

How is the fin set up , I bet it does a great kick turn

Rob

For some reason this board looks very similar to the board that French guy on here was building. He posted on here about 4-6 months ago asking for design ideas with photos of the build process.

I remember thinking the front of the board looked very similar to that board. Will try and dig it up.

Great find Regan , beautifully made board.