Updated mods to the Windsurf/SUP Transporter

...and room for more

Feral conditions forcast for Saturday

Nor West building from early morning & low tide 9.21am, Speed creek could be the shot.......mandatory GPS strapped to arm.

http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/tauranga

Had a great session yesterday, but tomorrow is going to be something else....

Valid at: 1:00pm Saturday 3 Mar 2012

http://www.sessionlogs.com/spot-17532/Fergusson-Park-Windsurfing-session-by-discoguy

DriPhone 2012 NZ WINDSURFING Slalom Nats - Results + Highlights Video

 

Open Men - Chris Lockwood 1st, Gareth Wood 2nd, Isaac DeVries 3rd

Open Women - Annie Crombie 1st, Lucy Waters 2nd, Lynne Donaldson 3rd
Junior - Laurence Carey 1st, Tom McGregor 2nd, Taylor Boyd 3rd
Masters - Chris Lockwood 1st, Anton Blijlevens 2nd - Nathan Taylor 3rd
Grand Master - Terry Bentjees 1st, Paul Vlietstra 2nd, Gavin Jackson 3rd
Veteran - Graeme Evans 1st, Ross Monk 2nd, Jim Rodgers 3rd
Silver - Bruce Spedding 1st, Mark McGregor 2nd, Russell Lund 3rd

 http://windsurfingnz.org

Another gusty Sunday @ Fergy. Great YouTube clip by TheDevcich

http://www.sessionlogs.com

50.48 Knots!!!!

Steve Thorp is now the fastest windsurfer in the world. The British sailor has set a new world speed windsurfing record by reaching the 50.48 knots, at West Kirby, England, on the 3rd January 2012.

Thorp wore two GPS units that delivered different results. The first one peaked at 54 knots and the other one at 50.48 knots. After a careful review gpsspeedsurfing.com confirmed the second record, which was enough to take the lead.

"Obviously they couldn't both be right and in the end it was found that the faster time was a spike due to the gps loosing a satelite or two for a few moments, possibly due to the extreme acceleration and chop, combined with the weather", explains Steve Thorp.

"This shows the importance of wearing two gps and getting the tracks looked at and ratified by the experts. Obviously I'm beyond chuffed with that."

Thorped is a 76-kilogram sailor and always wears 12kg of lead to "supersize" himself. The speed windsurfer sailed at West Kirby with a 40-wide Moo Custom, 4.6/5.0/5.5 Simmer SCR sails, one boom and a couple of K4 fins.

"I do struggle to sail a tight course as the gusts try to open up the sail and lift me off my feet, and sometimes I feel like I just don't have the levers to drive the board to it's max".

"But my solution to this has always been to bear off and go 'with the wind'. It's possible that my light weight actually helps with the max speed as I'll theoretically be quicker to accelerate", tells the Thorpedo.

 http://www.surfertoday.com

Some GoPro windsurfing by MrB

Lazy Sunday Session