With 2 cameras mounted on my board, I thought I had every contingency covered. Unfortunately after about 3 minutes of the race, I was more or less on my own as the leaders had disappeared over the horizon and I had no-one in the camera frame for about half an hour.

So sadly this video does not show the epic battle at the front of the field as Queenslanders Jamie Mitchell and Paul 'Jacko' Jackson took revenge upon the Victorians for daring to beat them the previous day at the Great Peninsula Paddle.

Nevertheless, what you do see here is a little of the winning woman, Rea Haare, the fastest 12'6" man, Chris Sal, and the leading masters (over 50) Jeff Lim. And listen out for the bit at around 4:30 when I realise I am heading for the wrong flags at the finish and my nearest competitor has jumped me on the inside.

DavidJohn said...

Nice Paul.. Next time try to keep up and stay alongside Jamie or Jacko so we can see their paddling style..

DJ

Next time I'll have my new race board to keep up with them...

Sure, why not. If you want to build one, I'd say we all want to see if it floats and tracks reasonably straight and fast. Bring it on.

Cam, with the number of savvy competitors queueing up to overtake me at the buoys, I don't think I need to advertise my incompetent back hand kick turn any further. By the way, I'm still seething over the fact that the SHQ brains trust decided to change the turn to clockwise this year. I'd been practicing my counter clockwise turn. If I was a cynic, I might wonder whether SHQ was influenced by a goofy footed team rider.