Today was one of those days when you know the winds right up there, the weather looks scratchey and if we get 12 paddlers on the water we're doing pretty well. We turned up early and made 12 paddlers... then as we get closer to the start time we have 50 paddlers so that changed things around some what.
Thanks to the two crews from Te Rau Ote Rangi waka ama Club in Otaki and Tai Tonga 41 waka ama club for their assisting them and Walter Maxwell from the Lyall Bay Surf Life Saving club for his work mobilising a huge bunch of junior and some senior paddlers from the Club....
both these Clubs provided a good chunk of the paddlers out today....without them the numbers would have been halfed.
Today we had to go with a shorter course option due to an advisement that the local Yacht club were racing but it appears they switched to yesterday....despite this the option not to head down to the Coastguard Building was the best one as there was a good period where the gusty winds could have caused too much havoc on that turn.
Thank you to the waka ama crews for taking on the challenge of the trickier clockwise or non ama turns, this turn is a lot more difficult to manoeuvre around and the craft loose a lot more ground than they normally would because of this.
Also awesome efforts Karl LeQuesne and Traci Linders hammering into the wind on the stand ups.
For a tight course and so many paddlers in a range of craft, it was great to see everyone respecting space on the turns especially. There was only one touch where craft stalled and touched on one of the turns and one of the surf lifesaving paddlers tipped out briefly but was quick to get back on, and back into the action quickly
Events like these give everyone an idea on craft speeds and paddling in larger groups a great experience for all the sports and what we all do.
Thanks to Sharlene and Lei for there efforts taking times and photos and to one of the Lyall Bay Mum's for helping out with all the times and Lyall Bay paddlers names
The next event will be based out at Petone where we'll revert back to a one lap short course and two lap long course option again and return to anti clockwise turns !
Click on any photo to enlarge
For more photos from today click here at around 6pm : https://www.facebook.com/WellyPaddlers?ref=hl
Spot prizes from Fergs Kayaks - 2P Adrenalin Thermals
Iain Gillies - asked to redraw his prize
- Seat 3 from the Huia Otaki crew - top
- Lawrence Hynes - pants
- Liam Chesney - top
5 laps (long course) 6.75km
31:46 Tyler Maxwell SS
32:17 Ben Manners SS
33:27 Tom Olders SS
33:59 Blair Simpson MK
34:12 Derek Cox MK
34:15 Danial Bremner SS
34:41 David Long SS
35:07 David McKnight SS
35:08 Les Morris MK
35:13 Dave Dellabarca MK
35:15 Tony Gibbs MK
35:49 Hayley Cox SS
36:11 Oliver Newman SS
36:57 Colin Crampton SS
37:19 Chester Burt - 2 min penalty (under wharf)
37:45 Kate Nota SS
37:51 Emma Risely SS
37:58 Barton Fletcher SS
38:11 John Toomath SS
38:32 Sandy Winterton SK
38:42 Lawrence Hynes W1
38:50 Rueben Hill SS
39:14 Alaynah Bettany SS
39:14 Trotr (Otaki) W6 Mixed
39:43 Luther Maxwell SS
39:56 Iain Gillies SS
39:59 Liam Simes SS
39:59 Keegan Bates SS
40:02 Pa Taikato W1
40:17 Ella Kingi SS
40:54 Grace Kingi SS
41:05 Matt Penney MK
43:11 Sharon Henderson SS
44:23 Alex Edmonds SS
47:25 Huia W6 (Otaki) J16 Girls
47:26 Liam Chesney SS
51:06 Karl LeQuesne SUP
51:27 Louba Coates SS
4 Laps 5.4km
40:57 Pete Notman MK
3 Laps (short course) 4.05 km
55:06 Traci Linders SUP
No comments:
Post a Comment