GKC Race Season Round 6

[Melissa]

Sunday November 9th 2008
*13th beach Barwon Heads*
Click Here For Location Details (http://www.extremekites.com.au/locations/australia-and-new-zealand/barwon-heads,-13th-beach-2008010559/)


Pilots Meeting 12.00pm
Entry Fee $10 Per Race
If you have not paid your Entry Fee by 12.30pm then your result will not count.




Buggy Race Format
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Race Start: 1:00pm
5 Laps / 40 Minutes
First rider to complete 5 laps wins, 40 minute cut off for last place.


Landboard Race Format
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Race Start: 2:00pm
3 Laps / 30 Minutes
First rider to complete 3 laps wins, 40 minute cut off for last place.

Contingency Plan:
If winds are not suitable for 13th Beach the race will be moved to Belmont common, the call will be made on Friday the 7th November.


Melissa

[goshen]

Forecast for Sunday
Winds: West to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly up
to 10 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre.


Looking to be better than origionally forecast (Westerlies all day); so not sure if it'll swing early enough; but low tide is at 2pm, leaving plenty of time for a race or two after that. I might not be able to make it until 2pm, but will try and make an effort to come sooner if the wind swings a bit.

[Melissa]

Yep Id say its a go ahead!!

[nigel]

Beach run, Beach run!!

New forecast from the BOM as of 5.10am Saturday:

Forecast for Sunday

Winds: West to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly up to 10 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre.


Big kites look to be the go if the wind dies off a little.

[SoutherlyBuster]

Righto, where exactly do we turn up on 13th beach? Please markup diagram below:

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Regards,
Big and Little SoutherlyBusters

[SoutherlyBuster]

ok, knuckle head SB didn't see the in bold and large letters right up front of the post of LOCATION, ie link of:

http://www.extremekites.com.au/locations/australia-and-new-zealand/barwon-heads,-13th-beach-2008010559/

So could some one please confirm that this is the part of the beach where we will meet at, ie where the big orange blob is.

Thanks,
SB

[nigel]

Car park at marker number 40, on Thirteenth Beach Road.

It's close to the western end.

If your coming from Barwon Heads (heading West), the Thirteenth Beach Road speeds go to 80, then to 100kph, just as it goes to 100, about 100-200? meters later is the car park, on your right hand side.

Or save yourself some traveling time going through Barwon Heads, and turn onto Black rock Road at the air port (if your coming down on Barwon Heads Road), come in from this end it is better onto Thirteenth Beach Road.

Failing my poor crazy dirrections.
Look for the others, like me. :)

[SoutherlyBuster]

Thanks Nigel.

[.Joel]

Hope you guys get some good wind!

Mel and I didn't get back from this morning's duties until about 1pm, so we miss out :(

Regards,

.Joel

[jolli]

Joel, You Folks didnt miss out on much, the wind was a constant 10-15 knot westerly till 3pm and then swung around to a SW, for about 30mins and then finally settled into a SE for the rest of the afternoon. I think all up we got about 45mins of good kiting today....hmmm Better luck next time, but on the bright side it was an amazing day! JOLLI

[.Joel]

Ahh well, I ended up being tied up until about 6pm. So at 6:15pm we decided to go do some fishing so drove down to Rye / Dromana. Just got back.

I would still liked to have been there, Barwon Heads is just a really great area in itself!

[jolli]

Sure is and i have to say that sorta made up for the badish wind direction.

The 45mins that we did fly saw some really nice runs up and down the beach, had the 7M Haka up and was the largest kite on the beach till Norm Thru up the Venom 13m. I was a little over powered but felt like i was moving at light speed on that beach. You gotta love the feeling.

Anyways, it's goign to be a place i have to visit again soon.



JOLLI

[SoutherlyBuster]

Sure was an interesting day. First lots of umming and ahhing where to make the base camp with the Westerlies, but ended up at the designated W40 location, which is the easiest to get the gear down for the buggiers.

Brought out the NPW5 2.3m^2 for some down winding on the landboard and thought I could do with a bit more power. So out comes the NWP5 8m^2, I then effectively weighed 40 kg less. So here I go tip toeing down the beach, then some zig zag scudds down the beach. By the time I got back to where I started from decided to give the Venom a ago and now the wind had swung around almost blowing on shore. Sure was fun. Zachary had a go to but had troubles with getting back going up wind, so I said let's go for a down winder until we run out of beach and then walk back together. The look of dissapointment quickly changed to a big grin, so off we were. Zachary first, me to follow.

Top day, looking forward to the next session there.

Big and Little SoutherlyBusters.

[schultzie]

i like wise had a hang over in the morning and spent all day cleaning my house... even if i wanted to come my bac would of had no chance of being under .05 hahahaah

so bring on the next one and lets hope it works this time...

im glad that some of you got a kite in.... i haven't been for any form of a kite on 5 weeks.... been too busy doing not kite related stuff :'(