imjimbo Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 vegimite on toast in hand ..... thro thu bug on the roof racks and im off...... see you all there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKS Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 How the weather kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhn.holgate Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 I've had an inch of rainfall this morning - I'll head down to Sandy Point Sun morning. I think it's still gonna be wet tomorrow but I can't miss out on the famous BBQ Monday could be ok. Tues/Wed looking good. I'm booking all my customers around tide times and XK events!! Stuff it, I'll be a long time dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbad Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Just getting more supplies for the BBQ, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OBEwan Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 How's it going down there guys? The weather looks pretty good from here at the moment. Are you actually getting any kiting in yet or still just organising the bbq and pulling cars out of the mud? OBEwan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKS Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 My guess is ..... "can't talk .... Kiting " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBEwan Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Goddammit! Rain and no wind when I'm off work. Wind and no rain when I'm stuck here. Typical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobM Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Goddammit! Rain and no wind when I'm off work. Wind and no rain when I'm stuck here. Typical. Story of my life - work just gets in the way of a good day's kiting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koma Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 A quick mid-speed week update as i'm back in Melbourne tonight. Nigel's got some big news when he gets back. I'll let him break the news. Saturday - rain, rain, rain, and more rain. No wind. No one kited. Sunday - wind, lots of it. Quite gusty and NW which meant kiting at the inlet. A few of us braver water kiters headed out for an offshore session and had varying levels of success. The gusts were hitting like bullets causing all sorts of problems with kites falling out of the sky or inverting. When the tide had gone out the land crabs headed out to make a mess on the inlets spit and had a bit of fun. Surpisingly the best kite out that day was a fixed bridle Zebra kite! More on that from those in the know. Monday (today) - SW (onshore, good conditions) 6-8 knots in the morning, which increased to ~12-15kn with it a bit stronger down by the inlet with maybe 18kn. A little bit of cloud, but everyone looked like they were having a great time when i had to leave for the afternoon. I'll be back down there tomorrow morning ready to ride again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhn.holgate Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Awesome day had by all today. Lots of video to look at and sort through. Tuesday's forecast is looking excellent although maybe a tad damp. More updates soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBEwan Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Nigel's got some big news when he gets back. I'll let him break the news. He's finally decided to come out of the closet!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdhot Posted November 2, 2010 Report Share Posted November 2, 2010 Good to hear you've been able to get some kiting in Get Nigel online, I hate having to wait when someone has spit a bit out Hope tomorrow is a good one guys JD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoutherlyBuster Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Well big and little SoutherlyBuster had a whale of a time. As Jason said, no kiting on Saturday just no wind to speak of, but that didn't stop us from having a good time, we hit the local hills with the landboards for some gravity runs, woo hoo. Sunday at the inlet was frigin nuts. Pulled out the 8m^2 Synergy for some action on the water. Wind was very gusty, even looped the kite a few times by accident, ya then the joy of untwisting the lines by looping it back the other way . In the end it was too over the place and during the luls could not get up wind enough and did the chicken run to the SW beach and landed the kite and called it a day. The land action, oh dear .... Well for the landboard, the spit as I discovered last time round the sand just does not harden up enough. I get a small stretch in ok, then hit the soft patch, front wheel digs in and the landboard cartwheels. So I gave the land action a miss, really need BIG wheels to have any sucess there. The fellas on the bugs with the small kites were screeming along, but even they were avoiding the centre spit were the sand was soft. Monday, oh ya, on shore/cross shore winds. Had some nice crusy runs down to the sand dunes on the main beach with the 4 wheel landboard and the 12m^2 Fly Surfer Speed III and Zachary was having a ball with his Ozone 3m^2 Flow doing free style action --- should have seen all the skid marks he made on the beach, it was like painting the beach with his landboard. I had a preview of Jollies vid from the day should make some good viewing, can't wait to seem them all strung up into one vid. Tuesday, the wind picked up some more but was more cross shore than Monday, so heavy tacking on the way back was the order of the day. Beat my person best on the 4 wheel landboard with the 8m^2 Peter Lynn Synergy of 45.3 km/hr, that was on the second run. The first run saw some scarry speed wobbles which I managed to conquer without falling off, stopped the wobbles and kept on kiting. At the end of the day decided to give the 3 wheel Cross Bow landboard a burl. Initially I thought the fast toe side runs would be scary, but they went fine. No hint of speed wobble at all and I could carve the board (some nice sine wave courses) easly down wind and even let the kite float with little to no line tension, no speed wobble. By the time I came back doing the mega tacks I was absolutely knackered, stoped the board, face planted (softly) in the sand at the pit stop and just lay there for a while (recovering), but with a big grin . Zachary had limitless energy. Kathlene said, do you think you should tell him to pack up now? My reply, no the tide will tell him when it comes up. I'll let Zachary give his account of the weekend when he comes back home from school today. Big thanks to Joel and his many helpers to make it a top weekend. Also a big thanks to all the kiters that came along and made the event a great social and kiting event, your enthusiasm added to the sucess of the weekend. As usual there was a smorga sport of different buggies to look at. One huge home made buggy from Andy666 on it's maiden flight. The social nights were top, great food (and plenty of it), very entertaining. Now to come back to work to have rest .... Regards, Norman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Well it looks like I get in first before Nigel (the advantage of being on holidays) Firstly a big thank you to Joel and Mel and everyone who helped organise Speed Week 2010, for me and Nigel it will always be the best and most memorable. As posted previously Saturday was a no buggy day due to the weather, Sunday a few of us braved the showers and went to the market before heading off to the inlet to either have a fly or in my case watch everyone trying not to drown their kites in the sea with the unpredictable gusty wind. Just a tip for anyone don't loan your Kite to Joel or it might take an unexpected bath (Joel I hope you had your video camera running ). The star of the day was Andyfly's 2.5m Zebra Z1, it just sat in the sky and took everything the wind gusts could throw at it. Monday dawned with good conditions for the main beach and everyone had a great time. I buggyed further than I had ever been by myself before using my 3m core. After my arms had recovered (still to scared to try a harness or backstrap and it's a long way down the beach and back on handles) Andyfly was kind enough to loan me his Zebra to fly. It's a great little kite and very stable and easy to use, I would highly recommend it to anyone who is learning as it is a very forgiving kite. I'm pretty sure one will be my next kite purchase (Andyfly you should ask Jason for commission for sales from Speedweek). Monday night was also the scene of the second BBQ and with the kids happily playing with Lee's Xbox the rest of us raised some funds for Movember. Nigel or Sinbad will post some photo's of the great shave with a beard trimmer and the Wolfie who is going home with a new look. (A little tip for all those looking at shaving to raise funds - don't get Jason to shave you using a beard trimmer!!!!! ) Tuesday was also great on the main beach with similar conditions to Monday but with a few less kiters as some had a long drive home ahead of them. There was a run away buggy that set off down the beach itself when someone forgot they hadn't put their seat belt on and put the buggy up in their normal two wheel position and somehow ejected from the buggy but no harm done It may have been part of the plan to add how to dodge runaway buggy's to my education!!!! needless to say I need more practice as I missed the buggy but managed to drop my kite Now for the best bit from Speed week and the reason this speed week will always be the most special and memorable to me. You might have noticed that I left out any mention of the first BBQ which was held on Sunday night as I thought I would save the biggest and best highlight for last. Nigel asked me to become his wife on Sunday in front of everyone who attended the BBQ and of course I said yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawno Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Awesome stuff, congratulations to you both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKS Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Congratz to you both Thats the BEST news eva An XK Wedding !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbad Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 I've been waiting for somebody to drop the news Congratulations Kathleen and Nigel. Here are some photos for the album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbad Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 By the way thanks Joel and Mel. for putting on what can only be summarized in one word "AWSOME" Thanks again to all the people i met over there it was a great weekend. Book me in for next year :-) Hopefully see a few of you at Kingston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawno Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Oh dear god i see vanilla slices!!! No I'm really sad i couldn't get there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoutherlyBuster Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 This is what Zahchary had to say about the week end: YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!! It was awsome!!!! It was so much fun on Monday and Tuesday. On monday it was perfect I did realy good jumps. Tuesday LOL I made slide tracks and they were huge!!!! Realy windy too!!! OH Yea down hill land boarding in no wind!!!!!! Santa left on Monday. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goz Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Congratulations Kathleen and Nigel Now mind you I thought Nigel's big news was going to be that he did over 100km/h If your interested in keeping the theme going there's a chapel on the beach at Rydges Resort Yeppoon and you could have the ceremony at Easter during the XK meet next year. Just Kidding All the best with the fun part, the wedding planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBEwan Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Congratulations Nigel and Kathleen! Awesome news! Must admit though I too was expecting to hear that the 100kmh mark had been crossed. Here's wishing you the 100kmh record in tandem! All the best Shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdhot Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 Thanks guys for the write ups sounds like it turned out OK compared to the rain reports. Good to hear you had a blast Zach and of course A big Congrats to Nigel and Kathleen, best wishes with the prep for the big day. JD PS, I was with everybody else ... really expected to hear about a 100km record Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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