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What airline are you planning to fly? As a rule of thumb for non airline status passengers:
- all airlines have a 32kg weight limit for checked luggage (remember you boards, sails, wetsuit etc weight a lot more even when just damp)
- via the US most full service airlines include 2x32kgs in the ticket (except for Jetstar)
- some airlines only include one bag in the allowance make you pay extra for each additional bag.
- some airlines now have baggage length limitation on specific flights due to aircraft limitations

I would recommend you check on this before you make a booking. I have heard of people paying more at the airport for excess charges than they paid for the ticket. Also check on the rules for both inbound and outbound segments. I once had problems with British Airways trying to get my gear back to Europe. They had bizarre rule in the past where they would take boards to Australia but not reverse if you had a connecting flight to Central Europe out of London. I ended having to airfreight my gear back.

If you have to buy a board bag keep en eye on Seabreeze. I have bought a couple of really good bags there in the past. Be ware of the overall weight of the bags. I have two NP double board bags with wheel that are great but they weight 5.9kg each. I also have a Severne triple bag with no wheels which weighs less than 3kgs. That said the best bag I have is a two compartment bag from ProLimit which holds 1 board plus 1mast, 2 sails, 1 boom, extensions harness etc and still comes in under 32kg.

I would pack each bag to be no more than 30kgs to allow for water logging.

Todays event



Shame about the lower thirds graphics covering a lot of the on wave action.

Case in point re the live stream... you go to www.liveheats.com/events/490099 and the heat info there is completely different to what's published on the web site in a news post. On the YouTube channel there is no place holder or an upcoming event notification. The Fiji TV link is blocked for anyone outside of Fiji. The event schedule is buried in a post somewhere in the Facebook feed.

Not wanting to state the obvious but given you are trying to deliver maximum audience to your event sponsors a more thought out comms and marketing strategy for each event would do wonders. Dedicated event web site, comms plan for socials and youTube. They had this for the Maui event but I assume the marketing guys in Quatro / Goya managed that.

laurie said..

AI scrapers have gone nuts of late.

I thought Cloudflare had figured out how to block them.

Dutchies showing how good it can get with a decent swell.