Social Ride Day

Including
Expression Session

Saturday 5 November 2005
Nobby’s Beach, Newcastle

Presented by

Newcastle Kiteboarder Club

The plan:

Meet at Nobby’s car park at Midday

Free ride 1pm – 3pm
Including a race or two

Expression Session
3pm – 4pm
Heats will be organised into skill divisions.
Please note - We are not looking for the best rider, the winners will be everyone that participates!

Riders to judge each other and will vote on:

Biggest Air
Most Spins
Best Loop
Insane Tech Trick
Sickest Wave Ride
Wicked Wipeout

Free ride 4pm onwards until the wind dies or the sun goes down!!

We will head to the park for a BBQ afterwards and drinks will be available on the beach all day.

This format can change depending on the conditions on the day. We will still have a BBQ and some games even if there is no wind.

Please give me a call on 0417 244 329 if you have any questions. Or post them here.

Everyone is welcome

Also forgot to mention, riders will need to be a member of NSWKBA/AKSA for insurance reasons. You will be able to join on the day if your not already a member.

Would love to come... is there wind though... What other enticing bits are there for the no wind problem?

The wind forecast is SE 10-20 kts.Looking at the charts they concur.This means dead on shore at nobby's.this is tricky at the best of times ,having a fair few riders out there at once will be be trickier.
Stockton would be a good back up if this is the case,X shore
Due to a school reunion I can't be there .Have fun

Cheers

Lach

The no wind plan is every1 bring a heavy fishing rod and ute with a chair strapped to the back , and we'll all head over to stockton and see who catches the biggest noah!

i will be there to video & take a few pics,im still off the water....
hope we get wind....
daz,
newcastle

saturday looks as if it will be getting the better wind of the two days anyhow.... hope theres some good swells along with the 20kt winds!!

Well, the weather at the moment is average!!

there is < 5kts from the SE (it will pickup most likely) but only forecast to be 10 - 15 which means BIG KITES! as it is 10-15 onshore.

there is wide spread fog limiting visibility to around 8 km,
at around 100 - 300 feet, Virga precipitation , thunderstorms out to see 100km, and a few rain cells inland that look as if they will miss us.

if it does rain or worse when the wind comes in then we will can the official ride day for today. if it's not raining or thunderstorming and there's wind the meet will be at 1pm in the carpark.
see you there!

free drinks and food courtesy of NSWKBA + no enrty fee.

Unfortunately due to the wet ( 12 mm before 8:30am! ), cloudy weather todays' social ride day will be posponed until a later date, possibly tomorrow. There is wind up here at the moment ~ 10 / 17kts but there is a large rain cell moving in which will dominate for the rest of the day maybe with some thunder and lightening when it gets here. Tomorrows forecast looks promising in terms of no rain, and maybe we will see the NE flow come in with some sunshine and nobbies will arc up !!!! hopefully.

If in the Newy area, there will probably be kiters down there today still ( like me) riding in the rain anyway :), just remember to put your kite down before any dark grey/black clouds that look tall with anvil features on the top pass near by, or if yo see a white cap squall coming through.

look forward to doing it tomorrow!

tomorrows forecast = Fine, Warm to very warm. Light to moderate southeast to northeast winds.

Nick

hey missy,
did anyone get wet on sunday??

i did 2 laps of nobys in the helicopter with video camera in hand,i saw nick on waters edge & dave near the sand dunes,this was at 5ish.
i`ll put it on 2 tapes to give to you & see if you can put it on dvd for me & the club(will pay).

cheers
daz

i`ll put some sad vid cam pics on photo sect for you,vid cam is only 1.5 m-p. grainy

i put on 60 meter lines and was able to edge upwind on a 16... but the kite felt like it was in the outer atmosphere and i couldn't manage enough line tension to jump..learnt a good lesson though that 60 meters does by you extra!, I'd say atleast 3 kts more!