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GTC Welcome Irish Speed Kings from Ireland

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Created by hardie > 9 months ago, 3 Jan 2010
hardie
WA, 4130 posts
3 Jan 2010 8:26AM
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Welcome Alastair N; Steve F; Killian M; Garath N; Oliver R, Enjoy!!!!!!!

vando
QLD, 3419 posts
3 Jan 2010 11:31AM
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Welcome Guys

mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
3 Jan 2010 10:55AM
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Oh my gawd, thank goodness, I was holding my breath for so long, waiting for a bunch out of the Green Isle to put a team up, I had gorn purple in the face
On ya lads, welcome to the greatest windsurfing fun site ever.

Hardie n Nebbs, If this keeps up, we will be able to go on a junket O/S without needing to pay any flash hotel bills. Just rock up and stay with all the GPSTC guys[}:)]
We just need to get me ol mate Richard from Virgin Airlines, to chip in with the flights

K-100
106 posts
3 Jan 2010 2:11PM
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Hi Guys,

Looking forward to taking part, thanks for the invite. You are all welcome here in Ireland anytime

Alastair
IRL-250

AUS1111
WA, 3621 posts
3 Jan 2010 3:14PM
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Yes, welcome indeed.

Don't worry, we'll take it easy on you for the first few months as we wouldn't want to make you jealous of the crystal clear warm turquoise waters and reliable seabreezes around here this time of year.

Did I mention perfect white sandy beaches...

K-100
106 posts
3 Jan 2010 3:46PM
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I'll hopefully start posting on the site soon but it's f***ing freezing here at the moment. It's so cold that the pipe that supplies water to the house has frozen and we have no water

Hopefully it will warm up soon as my new 2010 KA Koncepts should be arriving soon and i want to get them on the water

JayBee
NSW, 714 posts
3 Jan 2010 6:49PM
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I wonder if I raced Steve F's father between 1987 and 1993? Sean Flanagan?

JB

K-100
106 posts
3 Jan 2010 4:16PM
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Yeah you probably did. Sean did alot of racing back then. He still sails but only for fun but steve is getting him into GPS Speedsailing.

Steve has been doing well while competing in the past year and finished the recent Speed World Cup Europeans in 3rd place

JayBee
NSW, 714 posts
3 Jan 2010 7:53PM
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Cool Alastair,

I have been following Steve's results, very impressive indeed. Dungarven was the location of many raceboard events (held at the Gold Coast hotel), and many trips into town for onion rings, but never considered as a speed sailing location. We used go to Lady Island Lake for speed sailing back then.

Glad to hear that Sean is still sailing, last time I met him it was at East Ferry (Cork Harbour) and he was with Rory and Cully Allen, enjoying a pint or two at Dirty Murphs.

Ah, the good old days (makes me feel really really old to say that),

John

evets
WA, 685 posts
3 Jan 2010 6:25PM
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Welcome aboard ISKs.
Hope you get some warm winds soon!
I left the uk as I wanted to find a better location to sail! It has made me soft, wore a full winter suit on 1/1/10 as the air temp was mid teens!

wkcwarrior
371 posts
3 Jan 2010 7:17PM
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Welcome 2 Irish teams from Croatian's teams

K-100
106 posts
3 Jan 2010 8:01PM
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JayBee said...

Cool Alastair,

I have been following Steve's results, very impressive indeed. Dungarven was the location of many raceboard events (held at the Gold Coast hotel), and many trips into town for onion rings, but never considered as a speed sailing location. We used go to Lady Island Lake for speed sailing back then.

Glad to hear that Sean is still sailing, last time I met him it was at East Ferry (Cork Harbour) and he was with Rory and Cully Allen, enjoying a pint or two at Dirty Murphs.

Ah, the good old days (makes me feel really really old to say that),

John

Hi John,

The speed strip in Dungarven is here

www.google.com:443/maps?hl=en&q=dungarvan+map&ie=UTF8&hq&hnear=Dungarvan,+Co.+Waterford&gl=ie&ei=U3dAS6PME5Tu0wSD_sSXBQ&ved=0CAoQ8gEwAA&ll=52.081299,-7.599277&spn=0.058971,0.154324&t=h&z=13

You can see the Sand Bar we speed sail along west of the Gold Coast Hotel. It's a great spot when it works. We still sail ladies island but not too often now. We are searching for a location in Ireland that is a bit more reliable and works more often. Hopefully we can find it soon

Still have my longboards, as does Steve and Sean but the longboard scene is none existent in Ireland now. It's the same with Formula and only Slalom racing is left here. I am hoping i can make it to the Uk for a couple of longboard events as i used to love racing my longboard back in the day

Alastair
IRL-250

K-100
106 posts
3 Jan 2010 8:04PM
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evets said...

Welcome aboard ISKs.
Hope you get some warm winds soon!
I left the uk as I wanted to find a better location to sail! It has made me soft, wore a full winter suit on 1/1/10 as the air temp was mid teens!

Cheers Evets, i think my first time on the water this year is my trip to Tenerife on the 12th to try out the new 2010 KA Sails

Just too cold to sail at the moment, air temp is around 2-4 degrees here in Ireland and it was -10 last night

K-100
106 posts
3 Jan 2010 8:05PM
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wkcwarrior said...

Welcome 2 Irish teams from Croatian's teams

Cheers wkcwarrior



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