Without further a do, I shall present the final results in no particular order. Please put your hands together and bow down to the new Tasmanian overall Champion..................

MR DAVE MOREHEAD


Contributing to the overall result:
This year we had 3 very succesful rounds of Slalom; Dorans Road, Port Sorell and Stanley.
One formula/Race event was held at the Bellerive Showdown regatta in extremely light and challenging conditions.
GPSTC results contributed towards members overall ranking and in some cases held a large weight in individuals final results.

Overall Slalom:
1st Dave Morehead........Severne/Starboard/C3
2nd Kaleb Smith.............Severne/Starboard
3rd James Brient............ThesZU/Severne/Starboard/C3
4th Izaak Perkins...........NeilPryde/JP/C3
5th Karen Robertson.......Severne/Starboard
6th Steve Charles...........Severne/Starboard
7th Anthony Perkins........Neil Pryde/JP/C3
8th Anthony Houston.......
9th Paul Tenteye......
9th Jordan Murray....


A big Congratulation to Anthony Perkins for taking out first place in tassie for the 2012 GPSTC.
Anthony also managed to hold off Izaak by one point to claim the prestigious Contributors Cup.

Due to the lack of support and the continuance of less than favourable conditions; it has been decided that Formula/Racing events will not contribute to the overall rankings next year.

Wavesailing made a come back this year, unfortunately only one event was run. Next year Wavesailing will be included in the overall rankings and we are hoping to have at least 3 events run.

Overall Rankings 2013:

1st Dave Morehead.......Severne/Starboard/C3
2nd Kaleb Smith...........Severne/Starboard
3rd Izaak Perkins..........Neil Pryde/JP/C3
4th James Brient...........TheZU/Severne/Starboard/C3
5th Anthony Perkins......Niel Pryde/JP/C3
6th Karen Robertson.....Severne/Starboard
7th Steve Charles.........Severne/Starboard
8th Paul Tenteye..........
9th Jordan Murray........
10th Anthony Houston.....

Well done to everyone that took the time to support Windsurfing in Tasmania.
A big thankyou to Damien Wallace in the south and Alan Cook in the North that always go out of their way to make sure we have the gear we need. Their efforts and enthusiasm to assist in the organisation and running of the Beginner days at both ends of the state have helped to promote the sport and also bring our community closer together.

And a big pat on the back to all those that help out to run events and make sure we all have an awesome time

To top of the year Tasmania has a small contingency heading to Green Island in Cairns to compete in the National Slalom and Freerace Titles. The competitors will be flying the flag high for our small state, supporting and pushing each other to do the best we can against the best Aussie and Kiwi sailors.

The Team:
Dave Morehead(Captain)
Izaak Perkins
Karen Robertson
Kaleb Smith
James Brient(yet to confirm)


Happy Sailing to all

Thanks Steve
To calculate the GPSTC into the overall rankings I firstly removed all the sailors that were not fully paid 'competitor' members of windsurfing Tasmania.
I then went through and reranked everyone accordingly.
The 6 GPS catergories counted the same as if we had held 6 races. This means we had 6 different categories that had members recieving first, second, third......and so on.
We ended up having 25 'races'(16 slalom, 3 race, 6 GPS) this ment that competitors could drop their 5 worst results. So their 20 best results were tallied together to come up with their total overall points.

Congratulations everyone on your results. Great to see so many sailors in the Stanley event. Looks like there is a large number of slalom competitors up North,
well done

Congratulations everyone.
For the small number of windsurfers in Tassie, the standard is incredibly high!!
Thanks to you guys at the top, and a second tier following hot on your heels!
Considerable talent and commitment, but mostly a whole lot of fun going on out there. Its great to see it happening.