North Island Cup Slalom Champs 2013 - Feb 16-17

North Island Cup Slalom Champs 2013

NOR @ http://windsurfingnz.org/content/north-island-cup-slalom-champs-2013

 

The AWA together with the Manly Yacht Club and Windsurfing New Zealand are pleased to bring you the North Island Cup for Slalom.

This will be a one-event competition held on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 February 2013 at Manly Beach Whangaparaoa Auckland.

This event will be held together with the RXS and Techno Nationals and Formula racing, also competing on Friday 15 February.

Barfoot & Thompsom ,Whangaparaoa Branch is sponsoring the whole event with over $4000 in prizes to RSX/Techno, $1800 in prizes to Slalom, and $1000 in prizes to Formula. Prizes are in the form of cash and local windsurf shops vouchers. This is huge for the sport and a weekend you will not want to miss.

The beach will be full of windsurfers of all ages and abilities competing in their respective classes with Gold and Silver fleets catered for in the North Island Slalom Cup.

The event race schedule on Saturday and Sunday will allow competitors to compete in Slalom and in one other class. In the likely event that the wind in the mornings will be lighter, RSX and Techno sailors will be commencing racing around 10.30am and be completed by 2.30pm when the slalom schedule will commence. Of course there is a change that the wind gods have other ideas so slalom racing could be on earlier or later if the wind is particularly strong when we are least expecting it.

It's that time of the year when sea breezes can provide for a slalom sailors dream ride so don't miss out and mark your diaries now to come and enjoy the fun and competition in the beautiful location of Manly Beach.

The Slalom Event details

The earliest possible start time for slalom racing on Saturday and Sunday is 12 Noon.

The slalom entry fee is $50 for both days. This also gives you entry to the two social events (including food and some drinks) on Friday and Saturday nights at the Manly Yacht Club. Knowing how much my kids eat, I think I'll enter them just to feed them for the two nights.

Entry forms must be in and paid by Wednesday 13 February so that we know the numbers for catering. The entry form will be out soon.

You can choose to race on only one day but in order to be eligible for a placing, you must compete on both days, assuming racing is held.

The registration desk will be open from 10 to 11 am on each day to confirm your registration for the day s racing. No entry forms will be accepted on the day.

Gold and silver fleets will be catered. The silver fleet is dedicated to those competitors racing for the first time, those on non-dedicated slalom gear or based on ability level. Women will be racing in the silver fleet and compete for the Women s North Island Cup 1st, 2nd and 3rd placing.

Prizes/titles up for grabs are:

Gold fleet Men 1st $350 voucher and North Island Cup Men s Trophy, 2nd $150 voucher, 3rd $100 voucher

Women 1st women $350 voucher and North Island Cup Women s Trophy 2nd women $150 voucher, 3rd women $100 voucher.

Silver Fleet Men 1st men $150 voucher, 2nd men $100 voucher, 3rd men $50 voucher.

No wind entertainment will include SUP races, rigging races, Slalom clinics and a windsurfing general knowledge pub quiz. Start swatting up on your windsurf general knowledge.

Come on up to the event and be part of the spectacle at the spectacular Manly beach. It s a great place to bring your families with a large grass area and a beautiful and safe beach.

The Notice of Race and Sailing instructions will be out next week. Accommodation can be arranged for those coming from out of town.

Anton

AWA @ Facebook

North Island Windsurf Champs - Tauranga Results

 

 

 

  

Race report via;

http://www.sunlive.co.nz

Detailed Results @
http://windsurfingnz.org

More photos @
http://www.facebook.com/RSXandTechnoNZ

Competition results are:

Class:	Winner:	Runner-up:
RS:X 9.5	Sven Pedersen	Laurence Carey
RS:X 8.5	Natalia Kosinska	Alex Hart
Techno 7.8	Patrick Haybittle	Finn Croft
Techno 6.8	Coral Headey	Fenella Bowater
Techno Green	Dean Strydom	Ethan Butler
Formula	Marcus Hansen	Ian Young
Kiteboard	Torrin Bright	Dave Robertson

NZ Slalom Nationals - Otago Harbour 6th -10th Feb 2013

NOR available via Windsurfing New Zealand
Online Entry now @ HERE

Wind Week in Tauranga 15th - 21st december 2012

Bruce Kendall with come to TYPBC to run a coaching clinic for RS:X and Techno windsurfers.

This clinic will run immediately after the Windsurfing NI Champs hosted at TYPBC and will be in the first week of the school holidays.

Check out the poster here

Contact Christine on 07 578 5512 or 027 344 3330 or office@yacht.org.nz to register.

 http://www.sunlive.co.nz/the-weekend-sun.html

SUP Sailing, for when the wind blows the surf flat.

After spending a few sub-planing sailing sessions on the SUPs, the question about planing performance has been 'burning' away. Question no more, the 180L Tabou goes GOOD!

If you already windsurf and are looking to get into Stand Up Paddleboarding this summer, Tabou and Exocet SUP's have mast base inserts integrated for sailing.

Tabou 10'2" + fully powered up Vandal Stitch 7.0.

More session info @

http://www.sessionlogs.com/spot-20393/Speed-Creek-Windsurfing-session-by-discoguy

....and thanks for 'jazzing up' the kiting community in the process!

Regulation 23.1.4 has been approved with the following amendment.

Men's Board - RS:X
Women's Board - RS:X
Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser
Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial
Men's 2nd One Person Dinghy - Finn
Men's Skiff - 49er
Women's Skiff – 49erFX
Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470
Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470
Mixed Two Person Multihull – Nacra 17

http://www.facebook.com/ISAFWorldSailing 

Six months of lobbying by the international windsurfing community has paid off with the reinstatement this morning (NZT) of the RS:X class at the expense of kiteboarding for the Rio Olympics.

The controversial decision in May by ISAF (the international sailing federation) to drop windsurfing in favour of the then untested kiteboarding stunned the sailing world but the decision has been reversed by the narrowest of margins at ISAF's AGM in Dublin, Ireland, today.

As reported last week there were two ways the decision could be overturned, at council level or the higher general assembly.

Windsurfers needed a 75 per cent majority at council level yesterday to re-open the decision but never got it, falling short at 68 per cent.

However, a motion was made to assess the controversial saga at today's general assembly, with a simple majority all that was required.

Windsurfing got there and will continue its presence at the Olympics, which dates back to 1984.

Unlike the council, where members represented areas or confederations and some, like Oceania's New Zealand delegate Ralph Roberts, were instructed to vote in line with their area's wishes (the majority of Oceania nations preferred kiteboarding), the vote at general assembly level was made by representatives of the individual national authorities.

Yachting New Zealand has consistently made no secret of its preference for windsurfing to remain at the Rio Olympics in 2016, with kiteboarding to be given more time to develop and possibly looked at for 2020.

It made a formal submission along those lines in July and publicly reaffirmed its view last week.

It has got its wish, with the national authority members voting against the council members.

New Zealand has a rich history in windsurfing; seven of the nation's 18 Olympic sailing medals have come in that class, and there has been vociferous support for its reinstatement around the world.

Some national bodies apologised for voting for kitesurfing in the first place and others, like Spain, claimed they had been confused by the process.

Before the AGM, both YNZ chief executive David Abercrombie and windsurfing great Barbara Kendall said they believed windsurfing would fall short of the 75 per cent required at council level but the decision had a great chance of being overturned at the general assembly. 

http://www.stuff.co.nz

Chasing 40.....

Roger givin' it some!

Darren and Rob are presently engaged in an 'epic' duel. 

Gooch logging another quick one!

I have had the benefit of watching them both drop into Speed Creek regularly over the last few weeks, with top speeds being traded back and forth.

Darren putting in some 'overtime'.

Darren's 36+ is looking tough to beat, at least until a more favourable wind direction hits the harbour. Let the battle rage on!

If you want to get amongst it, let me know. I still have access to GT-31 GPS units, preferred device of the speed sailing community.

In the meantime, a visiting kiter to The Bay posted a session that may be hard to beat for quite a while. Gavin Broadbent logged 50+ at Fergusson Park, and rates the inner harbour spot highly.