With the event video now finished it's time for the thanks to all that took part and helped out.
i'd like to thanks everyone that competed, joined in and made the event a memorable time.
firstly thanks to all this years sponsors.
AMAC - KA Sail - for the KA wave boom, KA Kult sail, hats and lanyards Pete - Caloundra wind and surf - for the boom bag, NXS board Laurie - Seabreeze - for the sms vouchers Dieter - Sunshine Coast Sailboards - for the select casper speed fin Dylan - KA72 speed reader - for the software and IT Alberto - MFC fins - for the 2k wave fin
secondly, thanks to everyone that helped out.
Geoff - for joining the organising committee, securing the barge, supplying the rescue boat and all of the advice along the way.
Ray - for manning the rescue boat and supplying the second rescue boat.
Dylan - for all of the video work, sourcing the sausages on day 2 and keeping and sorting all of the times out each night
Sue - for manning the binoculars on the course
Glynn and Phil - for cooking all of the food at the presentation
Burrum Sands - for providing the facilities at speed HQ
Ray's auto and marine - for supplying the barge and cooking out on the speed strip
My wife - for driving to hervey bay to buy all of the food.
thanks also to everyone that helped during the event and those i may have ommitted from above.
finally - congrats to all of this years winners including the lucky draw winners of the NXS board and KA sail. (full report in ozwindsurf)
i'd also like to offer my apologies to the ladies. an early version of the event notice indicated a 2 sec peak category for the ladies division. unfortunately this was an error in the original flyer which should have said 5x10 sec peak as indicated in the event rules. rest assured next year i'll get it right.
Dylan shot most of the video, the computer did the first 75% of the editting automatically , i just added the last 25% of edits and did a small amount of the filming. (gotta love movie maker auto movie function )
awseome video, thanks for preparing and posting. Watched Aus251 (Dave M?) gybing again and again. Truly artistic. If I am right about who it is can he not be encouraged back to posting on GTC? I imagine he is competitive at all divisions, I would love to see his alphas
awseome video, thanks for preparing and posting. Watched Aus251 (Dave M?) gybing again and again. Truly artistic. If I am right about who it is can he not be encouraged back to posting on GTC? I imagine he is competitive at all divisions, I would love to see his alphas
Hi Evets Dave M is a very good sailer 2nd in the state titles recently and is on the Board Crazy Boys team unfortunately he doesn't seem that interested in GPS.
dave certainly is a great sailor alright. i asked both him and john if they could do some gybes in front of the cam so we had some extra footage...... holly smokes did he light things up. those freestyle tricks he is doing on a race sail at over 30 knots. awesome!!!!!
The hi-def version is very nice. We've already bored one (non-sailing) visitor with it.
Do you have last year's video too? (I really should check before asking, but feeling a bit lazy today...)
you did a great job with the camera dylan. i think even the pc was smiling as it did the edits. once i get the tv coverage i'll do a manual edit and include it.
also, this years vid the quality could have been better quality still. i ripped the mp4 to avi so i could use it in movie maker. MM then rips it to wmv on export. so that 3 recompresses. once the tv footage is in and i do a manual edit it will be done in adobe elements so hopefully no needless recompressing.
last years footage is on youtube, unfortunately youtube rips the quality out of things but if i can find the archive i'll upload it again to exposure room.
p.s i think my wife is a wave sailor at heart. after i had encouraged her to watch it for the 10th time she said, but they just sail up and back. i think that's code for back and forth.
Gestalt said... p.s i think my wife is a wave sailor at heart. after i had encouraged her to watch it for the 10th time she said, but they just sail up and back. i think that's code for back and forth.
Yep the highlight of any speed vid is the crashes, where are the crashes
great vid! and by the sounds of it a great event as well! burrum looks unbelievable...even looks flat a hundred meters off shore its now on my wish list of places to sail(as well as the pit) before i take the big catapult out of life!
bugger i don't have any vids of the crashes. i can name and shame though.
especially one person who was picked up first due to a broken uni.
1 boat went out to retreived sailor and rig the other boat getting the board which went the other way. everythiung and one was brought back to the shore to discover said sailor had neglected to actually click the euro pin into the extension.
another person sheered a uni cup clean off with his leg and then put his foot through the underside of his board.
anyways, hope both you are feeling better.
hi snides, i've been there twice and only sailed for 15 minutes in total. first year i didn't take any extra days off so didn't have time, this year i broke a footstrap on the only board i took after 15 minutes on the water.
Gestalt, Quite a good news article for our little known sport - the general punters would be none the wiser that we weren't going fast. Although did you see how fast that guy with the Code Red was going
BTW - what were you and Mikey chatting about in the background to Vando's piece. Nice ambiguity as to whether Vando broke the Australian Nm record racing from Brisbane to Burrum. That's one long broad reach.
Although did you see how fast that guy with the Code Red was going
Hmm Apparently we look alike sausage I recon im much better looking
Funny you say that Vando. I showed my wife Justin's video of the event and every time you featured she asked if that was me. I told her it wasn't because the sailor was going too slow
Although did you see how fast that guy with the Code Red was going
Hmm Apparently we look alike sausage I recon im much better looking
Funny you say that Vando. I showed my wife Justin's video of the event and every time you featured she asked if that was me. I told her it wasn't because the sailor was going too slow
Although did you see how fast that guy with the Code Red was going
Hmm Apparently we look alike sausage I recon im much better looking
Funny you say that Vando. I showed my wife Justin's video of the event and every time you featured she asked if that was me. I told her it wasn't because the sailor was going too slow
Which video? was that the blue movie you guys made...i heard Sausage was up for the part
Although did you see how fast that guy with the Code Red was going
Hmm Apparently we look alike sausage I recon im much better looking
Funny you say that Vando. I showed my wife Justin's video of the event and every time you featured she asked if that was me. I told her it wasn't because the sailor was going too slow
Which video? was that the blue movie you guys made...i heard Sausage was up for the part
Yeah but that's the one that Vando was in where he was much quicker than me
This is a photo I took during shooting. That's Choco behind the curtain. Took two hours to unstick him from the damn thing.
mikey and i were going to do some shadowing but developed performance anxiety so we ended up just loitering in the background .....
actually we were discussing the weather.
and very happy with the coverage. 2 minutes on prime time is a great outcome. the guys were really happy with the day also and their work.
i still haven't received channel 9 stuff but i'll do up a dvd of photos, videos etc and send them out to everyone for sharing etc. photos won't include borders or watermarks.
pic of speed HQ taken on the tuesday before coming home. wind was 15 knots dead onshore, white caps out the back. perfect for blasting along the shoreline in crystal clear water.
oh i miss burrum.
sorry for the double post, i tweaked a few things and uploaded again.
pic of speed HQ taken on the tuesday before coming home. wind was 15 knots dead onshore, white caps out the back. perfect for blasting along the shoreline in crystal clear water.
oh i miss burrum.
sorry for the double post, i tweaked a few things and uploaded again.
(newer)
, i just added the last 25% of edits and did a small amount of the filming. (gotta love movie maker auto movie function 
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first year i didn't take any extra days off so didn't have time, this year i broke a footstrap on the only board i took after 15 minutes on the water. 
I recon im much better looking
