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tezza49er

97 posts

tezza49er

NT, 97 posts

7 Dec 2008 11:17pm

Just got an e-newsletter from Sailing Australia. ISAF has of last friday officially sanctioned our beloved sport as a sailing sport for national and international comps in 5 disciplines, being freestyle, wave, course racing, long dist racing and speed trials.

It also looks like they are going to accept the 50+ kt kite speed achieved in namibia as the sailing world speed record....to be confirmed.

National and international rankings online ,yacht club organized events,seriously big corporate sponsors.......maybe even Olympics in the future ?????

This will be a massive boost to our public cred and possibly help sustain our beach access. This is awesome, I'm so stoked.

Check out www.internationalkiteboarding.org

cheers
Tezza

tightlines

3510 posts

tightlines

WA, 3510 posts

7 Dec 2008 10:55pm

As they should.

Danger Mouse

592 posts

Danger Mouse

WA, 592 posts

7 Dec 2008 11:21pm

Awesome.

D

merman

QLD

431 posts

merman

QLD, 431 posts

8 Dec 2008 4:06am

thats wicked news tezza49er.. thanks for that

Chipmunk

33 posts

Chipmunk

33 posts

8 Dec 2008 3:13am

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44332
world speed record
Still to be confirmed

Support from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, USA, Europe, and More showing that Kitesurfers / Windsurfers around the world agree that the ISAF is wrong and should follow the recommendations of the WSSRC

Even Dave White the Former UK Record holder (windsurfer) thinks its ridiculous and I Quote:- Records should be challenged on the water, not in the courts.

So if it makes the ISAF uneasy good

Please Vote
www.petitiononline.com/

cRAZY Canuk

NSW

2528 posts

cRAZY Canuk

NSW, 2528 posts

8 Dec 2008 9:29am

There's a quote from the guy that pilots sail rocket (UK based sail craft going for record) saying the kite record it sould be rectified.

Side note - he now holds the class B (?) record now, and went airborn (10m off the water) flipped the craft over and it disintigrated

Kitepower Australia

NSW

4382 posts

Kitepower Australia

NSW, 4382 posts

8 Dec 2008 9:41am

Great news!

Sail rocket dude in action breaking his boat.
Its a mega weird boat, technically interesting, but very far removed from any sort of recognisable sailboat. I think his craft is the thing that should be challenged in the courts!! (if anyone could be bothered)

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

Chipmunk

33 posts

Chipmunk

33 posts

8 Dec 2008 7:56am

WSSR Newsletter No 168. Outright World Record. 07/12/08
The WSSR Council Sunday 7th December 2008

We have been informed by the International Sailing Federation - ISAF - that they will support a decision by the WSSRC to ratify a claim for the Outright World Sailing Speed Record by a Kite-board.

In accordance with this, the WSSRC announces the ratification of a new World Record:

Record: Outright World Sailing Speed Record.
Board: Fone Prototype Speed. Fone Bandit Dos Speed 7sq m kite.
Name: Alexandre Caizergues. FRA
Dates: 4th October 2008.
Start time: 15:35:00.84
Finish time: 15:35:20.06
Elapsed time: 19.22
Distance: 501m
Current: 0.1kts
Average speed: 50.57kts
Venue: Luderitz, Namibia.

Previous record: 2008. Sebastien Cattelan. 50.26 kts

John Reed
Secretary to the WSSR Council
www.sailspeedrecords.com/content/view/102/3/

Thank's to all

cRAZY Canuk

NSW

2528 posts

cRAZY Canuk

NSW, 2528 posts

8 Dec 2008 11:18am

Good to hear

IKA was in talks to have this happen (as where a lot of other people), but it's good to see they hit the ground running.

elmo

8896 posts

elmo

WA, 8896 posts

8 Dec 2008 9:26am

Good news, the right result

mike67

5 posts

mike67

5 posts

8 Dec 2008 6:25pm

Great news!

choicey

QLD

280 posts

choicey

QLD, 280 posts

8 Dec 2008 9:17pm

Is there any video of Yellow Pages de-laminating on it's speed run in Steve?
Choicey

Mr float

NSW

3452 posts

Mr float

NSW, 3452 posts

9 Dec 2008 8:22am

Kitepower Australia said...

Great news!

Sail rocket dude in action breaking his boat.
Its a mega weird boat, technically interesting, but very far removed from any sort of recognisable sailboat. I think his craft is the thing that should be challenged in the courts!! (if anyone could be bothered)

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

perhaps he should learn to kite . noice and simple and obviously does the trick

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