Sunshine Coast Race Board Demo Day and Time Trials

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Mark Hatfull from Quiver Kaddy has a bunch of prizes to give out. Cheers Mark. Top guy always supporting the club and sells a great product www.quiverkaddy.com .If any other exhibitor would like to throw up some prizes please let me know.

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This was an excellent day and by all accounts enjoyed by both exhibitors and visitors.
Massive thank you to the Shops and Distributors. It was fantastic to have you all there and the feedback I got from visitors about your products great. This has massively increased the interest in this sport in this region.

A big thank you to the team from the SUP club that put this together. It is great working on this with such a crew.

We had a good number of interested people turn up to talk to exhibitors and gain advice from Woogie. When the first session was taken by Woogie which was aimed at people just starting out we had over 20 new people grab a board and paddle. When came the time for the more experienced peoples session the photos below show the crowd. Thanks Woogie as your time and expertise is greatly appreciated.




The quality of gear on the market today is awesome. After the time trials I was like a new kid jumping from one toy to the next and have to say that not one board disappointed me. The hard decision is what type of activity am I chasing (flat, downwind, BOP) I put a speed puck on a number of them and all 14' I tried were in .3km/h of each other. Admittedly I only tried one 12'6" today and was impressed with it speed nearly matching the 14'. This was Simon's new 12'6 x 25" Deep Oceanboard.



We had the 4.24km time trial of which about 38 took part in. Many others stayed to demo more gear that had not been taken underarm to do the time trial with.




The kids took off next on a 1km time trial.



The race was on:
Taj Marsh (Young Woogie) took out the juniors, followed by Bailey Day, Kai Roberts, Joel Farquharson, Lily Andrews and Jordan Farquharson.








Then came the return of the adults. Kelly Margetts brought the field in, Lincoln Dews was close behind with the next battle being between Ryan Keck and Dale Chapman. Full results further down the post.

The new Lahui Kai's and Starboard Aces were fantastic.




This new Naish 14' Hollow board is a weapon.





This Bark was very fast and felt great under feet. Just had to try and get it when Damo wasn't on it




Then came the first 12'6" boards with more 14' boards behind them. Great effort to Rob being the first 12'6" smashing it out on the F-One followed by Kevin on the 12'6" Red Fanatic.






















After the time trials we tried some sprint races.
100, 200m and 500m.
100m

Ladies:
1st: Jayne
2nd: Lorraine
3rd: Jenny

12'6" Men
1st: Robert
2nd: Simon
3rd: Kevin and Luke

14" Mens:

1st: Kelly
2nd: Damien and Lincoln

200m:
1st: Lorraine
2nd Illusions representative (sorry no name was on the record sheet)

Juniors:
1st: Kai
2nd: Bailey
3rd: Dillon

Mens 12'6"

1st: Robert
2nd: Simon
3rd: Kevin

Mens 14'

1st: Kelly
2nd: Lincoln
3rd: Ryan
4th: Damien

500m

Ladies 14'
1st: Allison

12'6"
1st:Lorraine

12'6" Mens
Kevin

14' Mens
1st: Kelly
2nd: Dale
3rd: Lincoln
4th: Ryan
5th: Trevor.






































This is the new Naish Jav (hollow)


I tried to get this in the car but Simon was watching too closely


Thanks Di and JT for all the photos. We have some more and will post latter.

Here are some more photo's I have received:

Nice work swanie!!

what a super cool looking day.

Thanks Rusty, Paul and Matt. It wasn't just me though.

I had a blast and enjoyed the battle with Ali Cat over the last kilometer. All the exhibitors were brilliant and I am looking forward already to organising another in Summer. One of the best parts was seeing all the kids getting into it and loving it.

Matt, the boards were fantastic and the advancements over the last 12 months is massive. I went their with a couple of boards in mind that I wanted to narrow down the choice of after demoing and left undecided on the choice of more then 6 great boards. Have to now think hard about what exactly I want it for and how much I want to spend / afford.

Have to get you, Potts and Dippa into it. Come down the Lake on a Thursday arvo.

Well done Swanie & team for organising such a good representation of the huge range of SUP race boards on the market. The race results showed that no brand has the the monotony with 9 brands in the top 15 places, Lahui Kai ( Kelly 1st place), Starboard, Naish, DC , Laird, Deep Ocean, Bark, F-One & Fanatic.

Time for some board reviews:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/Review/New-Lahui-Kai-14-12-Race-Boards/