The Rainbow Sandles BOP California

Hi guys, quik overall results from 10mile distance today. Jacko 1st 1hr 13min Catalina 12'6. Angie 1st 1hr 26min Catalina. Jaime mitcho 1st 14ft class lahuikai. Troy pease 4th in 14ft class I think. Super hard race!! I was stoked on my time and to beat some chick on 14's. Jacko was on fire!!! Relay race was so fun!! Got so many pics, will post when I get home. Xx Angie

Excellent result guys.. and gals..

I thought Jacko had won the 12'6" Class and they announced that some other guy had won it so I though maybe Jacko got second.. I'm glad they were wrong..

DJ

Onya Ang and Jacko
Jason and Mel

Lots of great pics here for those that missed it.

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DJ

Sorry about that.. Try this for all 988 pictures..

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DJ

Check out this pic.

Is that Jacko (?) in the left that's snagged Dan's leggie (or is that waistie) with the nose of his board and has the nose of Chuck's board between his legs..

DJ

Great Pic DJ what a sh!t fight. GO Jacko....

It's a variation of a double bend paddle.

Idea being that your bottom hand sits in the curve towards the top of the paddle to bring your wrist to a more straight position as opposed to a straight paddle where you either have your wrist at an angle to your arm or release some fingers and make a hook. It is for comfort and less fatigue. I'd love to try one.

As a reference point: The Tahitians are the fastest outrigger paddlers in the world and use the double bend pretty much exclusively.

Read about the Kialoa OC paddle whacky helium.

http://www.kialoa.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=115

I would if Kialoa did one.. Actually I'm not 100% sure they're a good thing considering how much we vary where we place out lower hand.. and then there's the problem of cutting them down for different height people.. Here's a great pic that shows that you not only get a more ergo position for your lower hand but you also get a bit more reach.

DJ

Hey Sue, I am chomping at the bit to see the Rambo doco on your hubby and his crew for this weekends race. Sounds like it is shaping up well from reading Rambos updates.

Hope they do well again.

I think that bent paddle is just a copy of those square mouth shovels you see at bunnings to make it easier to shovel stuff.....

What a great weekend and the distance race was a quik trip up and down the coast,,,,,,, with about 400 racers!!!

Stuart Murray placing 7th in 40-49 stock division behind Kurt Byron and Joe Aaron 12th in 19-29 stock in his first race!

Oldest to complete the distance race? 72 years.



The relay was the classic spectator event with multiple stacks around bouys and some big wipeouts on the waves and collisions in the shorebreak changeover.



Suplove Relay Team.
Kirstin Thomas, Stuart Murray, Joe Aaron and Jordan Lybarger

Can someone tell me what boards the top guys where on? I know Ka-Ching and Mitchell was on 404's and P and A Jackson on 12'6 Naish Javeline. But what other brands and models were competitive?

I also did a rough calc of average speed for the 10 Mile race and Ka-Ching would have averaged 15.48km/h if race was really that long. Is that speed possible? Here the best guys average 9km/h on flatwater on Javelin's and 12km/h on downwinders on 14' Glide (with 35knots up their backsides)

What average speeds are these guys doing?

For those who'd like to know what happened in that green buoy kaos.. It looks like they all went down..

DJ





How cool is little Riggs sneaking through on the inside.



and the master himself.... Pics by Dave Chun (Kialoa padles)

I would have though JM on Lahui kai for both the 12.6 and 14....