A slight change of venue and course on Sunday still threw out a few challenges for paddlers.Due to a very strong North Westerly wind steaming down through the channel at Ngatitoa domain we opted early to locate our start around to the Rowing, Kayaking and Waka Clubs bases at Onepoto.
The course went from the jetty and around past Te Onepoto Bay through the Yacht moorings by the shoreline then around "the tyre" back to the start finish making up a 2 lap course of 7.3km. Considering the conditions were quite blustery we were pleased with the turn out..............traditionally these types of races attract more competitors when the weather and conditions are warm with not too much wind around the same practice applies to the turnout with Wellingtons Tuesday night twilight kayak Series.
The next outing we have organised is a surf ski Demo Day, which is on December 8 and runs around Wellingtons weekly Tuesday twilight kayak Series www.betterthantv.co.nz which is run by Shane Ross you can find info on the demo day on www.surfskiandwakaama.blogspot.com
The next race of the Series is Sunday December 20 and the venue is Wellington Waterski Club by the Motorway at Petone. The course will be 7 km and will be an out and back (1 lap) along the Motorway. It's one of the most sheltered courses in Wellington especially in the worst of the Northery and North Westerly winds.
The schedule for the races in 2010 are in draft form currently and will be published by the second week of December.At this stage the format will have a race in the first week of January running through to late April the races will start off at 7 kms and slowly extend a few kms each race up to 15km to assist paddlers building up to the Wellington Matariki race late May early June. The schedule also works around the major races on both the NZ Surf ski Racing and NZ Waka Ama calendar.
We have a whole bunch of photos, from both on and off the water which are now on the website: www.surfskiandwakaama.blogspot.com Don't forget you can download the photos of yourself:
click on the photo to view the slideshow
click on back to your race 5........... top left of photo page
click on the photo you wish to download
click on all sizes
click across from available size to the size you'd like
click download
from there you open the photo then go on to save it on your computer
Thanks this week to Chris Fox and Mereana's daughter for helping Sharlene. Sharlene does a legendary job for us every race with keeping track of everyone on the water doing the timing, the spot prizes and getting some great shots inbetween. Sharlene is also the real IT hero in the household getting all the photo sets done and organising the website set up................I am Lucky I get to do the easy stuff.................like swanning around out on the water :-)
Chester
Results from yesterdays race:
Race 5 Onepoto 7.3km
SUP 3.65km: Howie Clarke 33:46
Sea kayak 3.65km: Pete Notman 24:03
W6 Mens: TJ6 crew 41:16,1
W6 Juniors: Don't touch my food (1) 51:09,1; Don't touch my Food (2) 57:31,2.
W1 Men: Grant Barriball 44:31,1; Ricky Kopa 49:38,2;
W1 Women: Mereana Hodges-Mike 50:23,1; Sarah Snow 57:39,2; Selina Katene 57:44,3.
Kayak men: David Fisher 45:15,1; Brent Harrison 45:34,2 John Taylor 50:53,3.
Surf ski Juniors: Andrew Berry 56:07,1; Levi Tait 60:43
Surf ski Men: Mike Tait 41:13,1; Chester Burt 41:54,2; Sandy Winterton 45:09,3; Mark White 45:19,4.
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