bud im on a freeride board and a 7.5, your going to be fine

Going off here at Manly, looks like a freeride board and 7.0 is in order.

Brad, Vando, Pierre - Respect!

Great turnout & wind. Some random photos

Mega thanks again to Pat and the RQYS volunteers for saving me a HUGE swim when my boom let go near the island.

Bummed that I made less than 1/2 a lap, but the upside was I got a good seat to see the racing out there, it was rather enjoyable.

PS: for those interested in the wind out there it averaged 18 with a peak of 24 and min near the end of 12 (not for long though).

What a cracking day, thanks so much to Patrick and John O'Brien for running it and for RQ for setting it all up and inviting us along. The wind God's also played a big part in some awesome racing, it's great to be maxed in a long distance race like that, coupled with a great course it was awesome fun.

Congrats to Brad, Vando and Pierre on there results.

Great event big thanks to the organizers and boat crew.

How did all the kiters go ?

Richiefish said...

How did all the kiters go ?

Watching from the boat over at the island for laps 2-4, I thought they did pretty well. They couldn't hang generally with the windies, and not even close to Brad and Vando (who were just on it), but considering I rarely see a kiter more than a few hundred metres from shore, it was great to see them out in the swell and chop. Gybing the race boards looked a bit hairy, but even so there were a couple of very nice arcs carved, and props to the guys on the twin tips, it looked like they had the hardest rides of the day.

Definitely need to encourage more kites for next year, would be great to see a really big mixed fleet, and we should try a couple more mixed races too. Maybe an Easter challenge and a welcome to spring race.

All-in-all it was a great sight out there.

H

AUS691 said...

Richiefish said...

How did all the kiters go ?

Watching from the boat over at the island for laps 2-4, I thought they did pretty well. They couldn't hang generally with the windies, and not even close to Brad and Vando (who were just on it), but considering I rarely see a kiter more than a few hundred metres from shore, it was great to see them out in the swell and chop. Gybing the race boards looked a bit hairy, but even so there were a couple of very nice arcs carved, and props to the guys on the twin tips, it looked like they had the hardest rides of the day.

Definitely need to encourage more kites for next year, would be great to see a really big mixed fleet, and we should try a couple more mixed races too. Maybe an Easter challenge and a welcome to spring race.

All-in-all it was a great sight out there.

H

excellent.

Thanks for a really well organized event and allowing us kite sailers from Brighton to take part, it was a challenging event and we all had a great time. It was even more impressive to watch the windsurfers fly past us .. We would appreciate the opportunity to participate in other events. Thanks

RQYS Around Green Island Marathon Results 2011

Some more pics!!

Brad was on

Fanatic Falcon 101 , 63 wide
Maui sails TR6 7.0
Select 35cm fin

Great!@#!
I just realised that the voucher I won expired on the 10/05/2011 :(
No dinner for the misses ...