Hobson enjoyed the fact that it was a lot shorter on the plane!!! Anyway, I enjoyed spending the evening with John Watson, Malcolm and Sue and after an early breakfast on saturday morning it was straight to the beach at woolacombe.The juniors kicked off the day by trying out the plastic boats down the sand dunes (christened the hill of death when walking back up to the carpark with a boat over the shoulder) Sam Davenport and Jack Horwell started off, Chris Hobson got a decent blunt and Dave Speller actually got air!!
The main competition started off with a strong cross wind which made surfing conditions difficult. There were a lot of popped decks, some swims ( I actually got sucked out in one of the heats), Robyn's leg injury (going well up until then) and a few good old fashion hidings.
As the day progressed the surf got bigger and better and reaching the semis we had 6 juniors and 2 seniors left in the competition. The final was very keenly contested and everyone surfed well. Darren Bason comming in 1st place, Steve childs 2nd, Sam Davenport 3rd and Dave Speller 4th place.
After the competition,it was straight on to Cook Island to celebrate Malcolm and Sue's 25th wedding anniversary. It turned out to be a great night with a great carvery, music from DJ mastervibe and an unbelieveable raffle with 2 composite and 2 plastic boats up for grabs along with the many other prizes, we all left with plenty of goodies.Thankfully I had nothing to do with anything concerning stickers!!!! (we know you knew all along Malcolm).
The weekend ended with an expression session on sunday morning. Shaun Holmes, Steve davies and Steve Childs were ripping it up on the skis and Philip Watson and myself also got among the prizes for best moves. Malcolm also had his new Ski available which is definitely worth a look.
On reflection of the weekend I would say the competition was well run, good to meet up with old faces and some new, RAIN, friendly people, great party, prizes galore, Hill of death. I would recommend this weekend to beginners and experienced surf kayakers and hope to be there again next year. Yeah, and before I go Chris did manage to mention before he left that there was a big time difference in travelling to Ireland between van and plane.
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