New Look

Hey All,


Well I thought with a new year I should try a new look. I had a look through the design templates that Blogger has and this is what I came up with.

Let me know what you think of the new look.

Airlie beach

Well the Airlie Beach regatta has come and gone again. As usual it seems the women were the stellar performers coming third in the marathon and sprint. Also Jan smashed the OC1 race finishing her 6km race in just over 35 minutes to place first in the master women. Sue and Loren finished second and third respectively in the senior masters women.

I finished my OC1 race in 40 min 40 sec. This is not a great time I need to work at it more and get my times down to about 31 min. I got a very bad start to the race  and was in last place but I gathered myself at the first turning buoy and I ended up passing quite a few people through the race. I ended up finishing 6th in the open men category. After Talking to Jan I found out she paddles 8 times a week. Unfortunately at the moment I cannot commit that much time to paddling. I have a unit to paint still. Once that is finished and I have started to pay down my debt I should be able to have a proper crack at paddling.

I should use this year to lose weight and get fit then extend that in the last half of this year and do some of the longer OC1 races that are on offer, like the Marlin Coast Challenge.

In the Mixed races we didn’t produce any medals for Maggie but they were good fun races and some great experiences for our newer paddlers. Hopefully we will see more of the people new to the club at the next regatta. Thanks go to Outrigger Whitsunday for hosting such a great regatta year after year.

The northern Zone has been exceptionally active and already posted the results from last weekend up on their website – Here.

Also on display at the regatta was a new to Australia brand of paddles, Viper Va’a. They seemed like excellent paddles, some of the examples on display seemed like factory seconds with marks and some (probably just Cosmetic) defects. The shape and style of the paddles though made them well worth a look if your interested in the Tahitian style of paddles. In addition to paddles they sell some accessories that our rudderless paddlers could be very interested in carbon Iakos.