Thanks to all the paddlers and supporters who turned out to either paddle or watch todays opening race.
We had 38 paddlers on the water today and about 20 people who came along to support those paddling, either organising some of the crews or craft transportation, I recognise the extra effort quite a few people put in to make sure their Club mates are able to get out on the water and also the work that goes into getting crews from clubs sharing equipment and joining crews together to get an extra W6 on the water.
We had quite a steady Northerly wind during todays race which provided slightly messy conditions offshore and closer to shore providing probably better surfing conditions which most paddlers like to latch onto where ever possible.
The course today started in the Harbour Channel and headed parallel to the shoreline taking paddlers across to a buoy at Goat Point, from there is was straight out to the Inner Reef and navigating around the exposed rocks on it's outskirts. Once safely around the reef it was straight back past the start finish and around a buoy, back to the Goat Point buoy, then back to the finish completing a distance of 7.7 km.
Today we had many paddlers who were out on the water showing off there efforts from some hard training sessions in Preparation for the World Waka Ama Sprint Champs (Noumea 2010) others are using the Series as a good chance for some exercise or extra racing that maybe helpful leading up to other races around the Country.
Special mentions today to Chris Fox, Mandy Hatton, Tuhiwai Hauiti-Parapara for making my life easier today organising groups. Big thanks to Charmaine Matiaha who was a huge help today recording times with the help of Dianne Morgan also to Dave Ryde who was there to offer any support as well, from start to well after the finish.
Today we collected $134 in entry money and like every race we do all the money goes straight into the spot prize pool which was made up of $104 of grocery merchandise and $30 cash.
Noted from the Post race questions today was the fact that the Goat Point buoy was very difficult to spot and in the past it has always tested our eyesight.....................so if anyone has an orange buoy (or maybe two) and some easy to handle smooth weights to anchor them and would like to donate them for this Series please contact me at chester.burt@gmail.com and I'll make sure they are put to good use for future races.
Thanks to all who supported and helped others out around the course today it was a little bumpy for some out there. I've given Pete Notman a 2 minute time credit for assisting another paddler in todays race. Thanks to Dave Hicks and Dave Fisher for collecting the buoys after the race today and also Dave Fisher and Sandy for their GPS readings.
Below are the results that were sent into the Dompost, they should appear in the Scoreboard section on Monday or Tuesday providing they have space for us.
Canoeing
Wellington
Race 1, Surf ski and Waka Ama Series
Mana/PlimmertonCourse (7.7 km)
Waka 1 Men: Grant Barriball 46:27,1; Peki Emery 48.03,2; James Sadler 53:24,3; Willie Kappely 53:54,4; Royce Gray 54:15,5; Brendon Comerford 57:31,6.
Waka 1 Women: Chris Fox 52:01,1; Kris Dahl 56:36,2; Ngahuia Henare 57:54,3; Katie Townsend 64:53,4; Gaylene Sciascia 64:66,5; Barbara Rudd 68:27,6.
Waka 6 Men: Team 6 36:56,1; Grandad Terry 42:16.
Waka 6 Juniors: Don't touch my food 58:19,1.
Waka 2 Junior: Anton Taylor/Ryan Kinvig
Waka 1 Junior: Greg Morgan 61:00, 1.
Sea Kayaks Men: Sandy Winterton 46:42,1; Dave Fisher 47:17,2; Pete Notman 52:22,3.
Surf ski: Dave Hicks 39:06,1; Mike Tait 44:12,2; Mark White 51:21,3.
The next race is at Hataitai Beach, Evans Bay on October 18 registration from 9.15am start 10am distance should be between 7 and 8km
entry fee:
$5 singles
$8 doubles
$12 W6's
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