I believe that Max was second to the beach but first to the gate after Ado wandered around aimlessly around for 20 seconds . I was third after sailing past Daffy 20 m from the beach and he refused to run. Justin was near the back of the field but managed to score the over 45 yrs gong despite an elder statesmen finishing 4 th . I do believe he has a pension card .
Just a little bit of kaos , still fun. They must do better next year
The Slalom race wasn't even funny , embarrassing would be a better description. Figure 8 course, but the leg was too short and top mark was so high that you had to tack around it. The bottom mark was in a wind shadow, so you planned in and floated out. Gave up after 1 lap.
They only ran that 1 race

Great to meet the Victorian crew, thanks for coming up guys. The event has huge potential, perhaps as a stand alone weekend coordinated into the Windsurfing NSW schedule to maximise attendance.

Unable to make it on the Sunday I only saw the downwind event.

Anyway, here are my unsolicited suggestions for next year:

- Hold the race between December and March to maximise the chances of a favourable forecast.
- Set a pre-planned Race-Briefing location and time. The race start can be flexible to conditions of the day but getting everyone together to explain (not brainstorm) the course layout and start procedure would be of huge benefit.
- Increase the distance of the race by either putting in a series of broad reach marks (L2L style) and/or moving the finish line to either Plantation Point or even Hyams Beach
- The rabbit start has potential (I really wish I hadn't followed the wrong boat) but Calalla Beach also lends itself to a Le Mans Start which may be less chaotic.
- Finally, my last and probably most controversial comment......invite the tea baggers, they're not all bad people and sometimes they're nice to look at, plus more attendees just puts more dollars in the kitty to make it a ripper day out.

Tony Wills said..
I heard about this today at work.

www.sandandsea.com.au/

Still trying to find out more information but there's a good chance that the "Bay to the Beach" downwinder will be available for us pole dancers. Check it out and feel free to do some digging yourselves. If you find anything of interest, share it on this thread.

Whilst I don't expect anything available regarding prizes, it will be a great opportunity to do the downwinder regardless. The more of us the better!! notepad.software/ www.oovoo.com/malwarebytes/ filezilla.software/

Looks like a great event! Please keep us in the loop. Windsurfing NSW has a stand at the Sydney boat show starting this Thursday 2/8/18 till Monday.

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