Burrum Windfest 2015 - the count down is on!

Sorry misread. It's Saturday your heading back. Will pack you a road bag

Day 3.

Winds up. Woohoo.

Finished 5 races this morning with the crowd watching from the shore.

1st place men's WOD is josh with Johanna leading women's division. Local Darryl leading raceboard class.

Speed briefing under way at 11am.

leaderboard

Yellow Rashie (open) Michel Van Der Plit - 136.907 points
Brian Hooper - 124.949 points
Chris Kerin - 124.739 points
Dennis Winstanley - 123.551 points

Red Rashie (legends) Geoff Ringe - 120.071 points
Bruce Healey - 118.751 points
Tibor Ferenczy - 116.079 points

Open Class

2 sec
Michel Van Der Plit - 35.232
Mark Richardson - 32.025
Chris Kerin - 31.597

5x10
Michel Van Der Plit - 33.216
Mark Richardson - 30.430
Brian Hooper - 30.049

NM
Michel Van Der Plit - 28.156
Roland Schmid - 26.890
Chris Kerin - 26.797

1hr
Dennis Winstanley - 20.513
Brian Hooper - 18.556
Michel Van Der Plit - 18.359

Alpha
Chris Kerin - 22.345
Michel Van Der Plit - 21.994
Brian Hooper - 19.881

Legends

5x10
Geoff Ringe - 29.290
Bruce Healey - 28.622
Tibor Ferenczy - 27.819

NM
Geoff Ringe - 26.258
Bruce Healey - 25.826
Tibor Ferenczy - 23.234

Womens
5x10 Anne - 25.845
NM Anne - 21.743

Windsurfer One Design QLD Titles
Josh Green - 4 points
Peter De Laet - 8 points
Johanna Winstanley - 12 points

Raceboard Class
Darryl Jones (phantom) - 7 points
Michael Corkeron (div 2) - 9 points
Dennis Winstanley (kona one) - 11 points
Tim O'Sullivan (fanatic) - 15 points

day 4

kicked off early again to get 4 course races in. nice 10-15 kn NW wind blowing in and the swell was up. solid 2 foot rolling through the course which added to the fun for the guys on the water.

speed briefing to kick off at 11am. the wind is up and the latest forecast is for it to increase. time will tell.......

Here is another word from our sponsors.

first up,

Major Sponsors
HOT sails Maui - Australia. - Jonathan at hot sails is a major sponsor again this year. HOT sails have contributed a New Sail for the lucky draw. we like new sails and especially ones from HOT Sails Maui,. - thanks Jonathan. http://hotsailsaustralia.com.au/

Wind And Surf - Peter has once again donated a board to the prize pool. this is the 9th board he's made available. this year is a choice of a lorch 84lt speed board or a custom wave/slalom board. - Thanks Peter

Burrum Sands Holiday Units - Event HQ! Without their support we would not have a place to host the event or the parties. www.burrumsands.com.au/ - thanks Brooke.

we continue this year with custom trophies and more prizes being contributed by.

Surf Fx - the guys will also be competing as well as donating their usual excellent prizes to the prize pool. - Thanks Ian and Michael. surffx.com.au/

Sunshine Coast Sailboards - Dieter again is helping out with plenty of prizes for the prize pool. - Thanks Dieter www.sunshinecoastsailboards.com.au/

Windsurfing Gear - it's been years since there was a new shop in qld. so we thought we'd hit up windsurfing gear to celebrate them being local to the event. Andy was more than keen. - Thanks Andy www.windsurfinggear.com.au/

KA-72 have supplied the software to run the event. Thanks Dylan. www.ka72.com/

burrum river quest supply the boats and support. www.burrumriverquest.com.au/ - Thanks Greg

Nice shots justin

day 4.5

we had a fw more join the ranks today. good to see some more faces. conditions were same as yesterday minus a little bit of the sting the breeze had. Sailed till late then headed to the local bowls club for dinner.
Tomorrows forecast is for dropping winds. still, we will see what we can milk from the day.

we kick off with course racing in the morning then into speed sailing in the arvo. If the wind is the forecast easterly, we may try the northern run. tomorrow finishes with the Windfest Party at speed HQ and it is well catered.... :-)

course briefing 8.10am
speed briefing 11am.

a few photos from today

Just shots again Justin.

Great reports and photos Justin thanks mate

Finished off another 4 course races today. Then the wind backed off so we decided to call freesailing this afternoon.

Tonight is the Windfest Party and prize ceremony. everything is ready to go including the board giveaway from wind and surf and the sail giveaway from hot sails maui - Australia. We also have some booms and other gear to giveaway thanks to the combined efforts of all of our sponsors.

tomorrow is a fun day. starting off around 9.30 with a longboard slalom course.
Wind permitting we'll get the slalom boards onto the slalom course with a beach start and fingers crossed jump into the northern run for some afternoon fun.

Looking forward to tonight's party.

Some more photos from this morning on the race course.

great photos all round

cheers sausage and great photos greeny!

so here is the wrap for windfest party.

food was amazing. thanks to Gayle and Theresa for the salads and cake. we also had rib fillets, sausages and chicken breast on the bbq. a new hit this year were the vegemite and cheese sausages.

presentation flowed along with the drinks. we try to include everyone with lots of giveaways and prizes. I will do a full wrap up tonight with full results and thankyou words. So for now congrats to everyone and especially the lucky prize winners.

Vando - successfully taking home the Hot Sails GPS sail kindly donated by Hot Sails Maui Australia.
Darryl - successfully taking home the Wind and Surf Board kindly donated by Wind and Surf.
we also had 2 booms and a fin as giveaways.

this years Yellow rashie winner was Vando
This years Red Rashie winner was Geoff.

it was a really fun night at Burrum Sands that continued on into the late morning hours.

we woke this morning to calm conditions and called a lay day which wraps up the 2015 event very nicely.

Great shots again Justin,and thankyou for a really great contest I think everybody had a good time and should be very happy with the wind we got, it made for some very hard sailing and brought out the best in as all, Burrum turned it on again, looking forward to next year I wiil be there, thankyou again.

Thanks Justin and everyone for a top time at Burrum. Great to see familiar faces and new ppl too! Cheers :)