Hi All
1st Slalom race of The WSA Summer Slalom Series
Nov 7th wind permitting
Venue- Semaphore Beach
Briefing at 1.30pm
Racing when suitable.
3x20min heats, most laps wins.
PFD and current WSA registration is a must.
Open to Slalom races, Longboards, wave sailors, foil sailors
Come down cut some laps and have a good time.
Sponsored by Ocean Surf Co. and Resimax.
Thanks
WSA
Select to expand quoteStuthepirate said..
Pics or it didn't happen
7th is this weekend
Hi Everyone
We are going to have a crack at a slalom race tomorrow.
Forecast is for 15 to 20knt southerly
Briefing around 2pm
Bring your big gear.
Ian
Hey, we got 3 races in! Thanks to everyone for coming down. The conditions were marginal, hovering I suppose either side of 15 knots, but the tide was coming in fast and taking a few knots off the wind too.
We had a mix of gear across 9 sailors - 3 wind-foilers, some full on slalom kit with and some in between. The racing was pretty tough around a 400 m long figure 8 course. The wind was shifting and sometimes a lot of pointing and even tacking was required. But from the shore, it looked spectacular. Match of the day was Thomas on a 7m2 wind-foiler and Ian on a traditional finned slalom board with an 8ish m2 sail. Race 2 was the windiest, with Ian prevailing, otherwise the high pointing and early take-off of the foil had Thomas in front for the other 2 races. Outright win to Thomas. We will have a gathering and presentation at the end of series - standby for that.
Next time I will find a better way to lay out the buoys, and make the buoys a bit easier to see. When you do the maths for having 1 m of water at the inside buoy for the foilers, it meant paddling a long way out to set the course 
Thanks to Ty from the Ocean Surf Co for sponsoring competitors rashies, and for the help with the admin and photos (have at look at them www.facebook.com/oceansurf.co). Thanks also to Resimax for sponsorship.
Thanks for supporting our Slalom Series, see you next time!
Cheers, Richard.
P.S. Laps were counted as roundings of the inside buoy. If your self assessed lap count differs, send me a PM and I will amend the record.
Thanks Dr Duck for the organisation. It was a really good afternoon and a good race. It was the first time I really race against fins. And the race was nice. I had to push hard to stay in front... Especially in the second race, as the wind was more consistent, Ian refused to let me the lead. And we stayed so close... until I took too much risk at a jibe.
I has been a long time since I had a so great windfoil sailing... and this morning, I had so much pain to extract my body from my bed 
Yesterday track:
No high speeds but very regular ones:
5 best 1 second (at least) average = 39.35km/h [21.25Knots]1 second run n?1 = 39.86km/h [21.52Knots] (11.1 m. in 1.000 s.) -
1 second run n?2 = 39.25km/h [21.19Knots] (10.9 m. in 1.000 s.) -
1 second run n?3 = 39.24km/h [21.19Knots] (10.9 m. in 1.000 s.) -
1 second run n?4 = 39.21km/h [21.17Knots] (10.9 m. in 1.000 s.) -
1 second run n?5 = 39.20km/h [21.17Knots] (10.9 m. in 1.000 s.) -
5 best 10 second (at least) average = 37.97km/h [20.50Knots]10 second run n?1 = 38.06km/h [20.55Knots] (105.7 m. in 10.000 s.) -
10 second run n?2 = 38.04km/h [20.54Knots] (105.7 m. in 10.000 s.) -
10 second run n?3 = 38.01km/h [20.53Knots] (105.6 m. in 10.000 s.) -
10 second run n?4 = 37.91km/h [20.47Knots] (105.3 m. in 10.000 s.) -
10 second run n?5 = 37.84km/h [20.43Knots] (105.1 m. in 10.000 s.) -
250 meter run n?2 = 37.11km/h [20.04Knots] (250.5 m. in 24.300 s.) -
500 meter run n?2 = 33.92km/h [18.32Knots] (500.3 m. in 53.100 s.) -
1000 meter run n?2 = 30.98km/h [16.73Knots] (1,000.8 m. in 116.300 s.) -
1852 meter run n?2 = 30.96km/h [16.71Knots] (1,852.2 m. in 215.400 s.) -
5 best alpha-500 average = 31.62km/h [17.07Knots]alpha-500 run n?1 = 32.59km/h [17.60Knots] (499.7 m. in 55.200 s.)
