Dust off the cobwebs and start practicing your hours!

This season FR series is being packed into one action packed weekend in January, one very windy weekend with lots of sailing, presentations and fun at the LCSC and the PUB on the Saturday night, great excuse to get up to the lake and stay for the weekend.

Will be a fun weekend a chance to sail and compete with all your friends and enemies all on the same patch of water at the same time, at the end of the weekend we will know who is who in the pecking order of One Hour Sailing!

This leaves room for all the other Wind Wanderers activities lined up throughout the season; Social Days, Swap meets, Clinics, Intro to Ocean/Wave sailing and more.

February : SURF CONNECT Jetty to Jetty ...with an added challenge TBA later,

March: Burrum heads Windfest

Looks like there is something on each month starting shortly, check out the Windwanderers Website to find out more about what's coming up.

windwanderers.org.au/

might just have roll a swag out on the lawn in front of the Pub!

Great to see such a great turn out for the Board Crazy 1Hr on the weekend! Hope that gives a bit of taste of what to expect on the 1hr State Championship Weekend Lake Cootharaba in January. 4 x 1hr's over a weekend , dates TBC by Green arrows on the chart, but it will not be the 1st weekend of January.

Behind the scenes we have been securing sponsors to ensure the event costs are covered and its great success, the more sponsors the better the burgers will be on Saturday Night!

the latest sponsor is a bit of a first a 'non industry' sponsor,

Healthworks Fitness Centres.

Healthworks are low key no stress gyms that have fitness classes, crèches and PT trainers etc and have quite a few coastal and city locations, and they are cheap, staff are all friendly and super helpful!
They have a couple of deals on currently that are worth checking out, to learn more visit their website.

www.healthworksfitnesscentres.com.au

List of clubs are:
Deagon Deagon Market Square Braun St.Deagon
Peninsular Bluewater Shopping Centre20 Anzac Avenue Redcliffe
Aspley Shopping Village 605 Robinson Road West Aspley
West End 33 Vulture St West End
On the River 1/39 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe
Gasworks Gasworks Skyring Terrace,Newstead
Ipswich 30 workshop St.Brassall
Mooloolaba 2 Pangarinda Place,Mooloolaba

If you sign up to go to one make sure you tell them your a windsurfer, any business that supports windsurfing is our friend!

*if your business or any other business would like to be a sponsor the fees are very low, and all sponsors help, email us here through Seabreeze.

I just got a work out plan from my old training guru Ashley Walker (Ash) at Healthworks Cleveland and Victoria point - too far away for me to use as a daily gym. Made the effort to go and see him to work out a special windsurfing slanted program which is awesome. First time this morning - I will be making the pilgrimage once every couple of months to work with Ashley and rework my program.

Thumbs up from me

Cheers
Morgan

Dwbh said...
I just got a work out plan from my old training guru Ashley Walker (Ash) at Healthworks Cleveland and Victoria point - too far away for me to use as a daily gym. Made the effort to go and see him to work out a special windsurfing slanted program which is awesome. First time this morning - I will be making the pilgrimage once every couple of months to work with Ashley and rework my program.

Thumbs up from me

Cheers
Morgan

thats great that you already are a customer of them! I'll make to let Kelly at HW know!
Good feature with HW is that you can use any of their gyms in the network, so in my case if I'm stuck in Brissy for work i will often use the West End gym as part of my Mooloolaba member ship., although haven't been going enough lately, something to do with wind

Done
Well done J getting the sail...woohooo

If there were enough 'race boards pre entered' to form a class sure, we could consider it.

Its a 15Kn+ event so no advantage for RB's, unless there were big lulls in the middle, and for that reason they then would have 'massive' advantage over short boards so would need to have their own class.

One of the initial philosophy's of FR and still is , was to 'avoid the equipment war', keep it really simple, FR is about it's windy, lets go sailing, grab your fav board and sail chuck it in the car and go, be in smooth water, rough water whatever, and see if you can sail a fast consistent 1HR.

It's also been about minimum gear, that is all airline and car friendly also, throw 1 board 2 sails on a plane, go compete at other events with minimum fuss, for many people 1 board 2 sails is what they use 90% of the time it also is often all that some people own.

The reason why we have the 'race class' and 'freerace class' is that the race/speed sails/boards do have a few knots advantage over more versatile user friendly freeride/race kit, so it encourages the use of recreational fun gear and be competitive with like equipment, whilst letting the dedicate speed/race equipment compete on their level also.

If a heap of long board crew wanted to do it we would welcome that and we could organise a class for them....so drum up some numbers and see how it goes.

Freerace weekend update, no go for this weekend (8/9th) with a light breeze forecast.

All eyes on the forecast for next weekend 16/17th, keep an eye out for green arrows.

If we were laying bets, Australia Day long weekend could be windy!

Up dates closer to the dates here and on the Facebook page.

Update, 8th Jan

Still to early to call for next weekend 16/17th Jan..nothing exciting is showing on the long term wind forecasts yet, plenty of time for that to change.

If there is no wind then, simply will aim for the following weekend, it's the 'Pantene' effect.... 'might not happen overnight, but it will happen!'

Don't forget you can register on line in advance and score a FREE High Quality T- Shirt. (limited stock 20)
enter here;
http://www.freeracequeensland.com/entry-faq-s.html OR www.windwanderers.org.au/Events/FreeRace/OnlineEntryFees.aspx

Also on the Saturday night we are going to feed you gourmet Burgers in the Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club, as part of your entry fee, BARGAIN!
So its super helpful if we have catering numbers in advance, an easy way to 'register interest' before hand is via the Facebook page , 'event section'
www.facebook.com/events/1002320359809845/

Also KA72.com is the Freerace Software for the event, you will find that that the list of suitable GPS units is much greater than the old standard GT31, if you need to confirm if your GPS is suitable drop Dylan an email via KA72.com page...think you can even use the Phone GPS App, which is a cheap as chips way to access GPS technology.

If you are struggling to get your hands on a unit post here on Seabreeze, I'm sure there would be someone able to loan a unit for the weekend.

If you are not sure what Freerace is all about then check out the info on our Home page for details, www.freeracequeensland.com/home.html

It's low key, high speed, timed windsurfing in good winds where everyone sails on the same water at the same time in the same conditions, race like but without the hassle and pressure of gybe marks, courses etc, its also very forgiving if and when you blow a gybe, come off or need to tune your gear etc, as its over 1hr there is plenty of time to make up for mistakes...at the end of the event the results speak for themselves, no dirty air bad starts, group pile ups at markers or claims of amazing speeds achieved in perfect conditions v's not so perfect everyone, as the opportunity to sail in the same conditions, it's about as fair as you can get!

And unlike some races...We don't give the Pro's a head start!

Lake Cootharaba is a great 1Hr GPS location, massive long runs, flat water, chop, gusty at times, no hazards and shallow on the edges for quick water starts when you come off! There are Two camp grounds available, Pub, Shop, Toilets, Sailing Club, Great for kids to ride bikes, swim and explore the bush.

Now all that is required is a Windy Weekend!

Got my new GPS ordered...

what time are you expecting first race to start Saturday?, keeping in mind some of us are driving up from Brisbane Saturday morning

Haggar said..
Can we sail all day and hand our GPS in at the end for processing or do we need to attend briefings before and after each race. Preferring the first option if thats possible

+1

Looking to have a crack at doing a PB distance and stopping is not an option.

Hi Ausmoz and Hagger, it should be pretty easy to manage. Just need two GPS. The first 1 hour start time means you probably would hand in around 12 ish when it concludes. If you are on water by 6am for distance then you may need a break after 6 hours and shouldn't affect your distance attempt. Then a couple visits in at 2 ish and 4 ish when other 1 hrs concluded would mean you could register all the 1 hour scheduled sessions.

Good luck with the distance PB.

It is good catching up with everyone after a freerace on the beach and having a chat as Marty says.

thanks guys sounds great. Booked in to Boreen camp ground for Saturday night

I would love to go in the Freerace as well but I'm going for distance, 250 is the target. I really don't want to hand in my GPS midway through the day and lose valuable time.
Will be good to see so many there. have fun racing.

ULF said...
I would love to go in the Freerace as well but I'm going for distance, 250 is the target. I really don't want to hand in my GPS midway through the day and lose valuable time.
Will be good to see so many there. have fun racing.

No need to, just start at the start location for each race! Sign off end of the day so we know your back on dry land! and hand GPS (card) in end of the day.
You'll knock 250 over easy as in a full day of sailing. Or do the FRaces on the Sat and your distance day Sunday.