Heat 5 @ Hawks Nest

28. Jan, 2009 13 Comments

Heat 5 @ Hawks Nest

The first Heat in 2009 kicked off in beautiful Hawks Nest and provided the first slalom event for the season. In total, 16 individual heats were run over the two days with two super high-wind formula races strung in on Sunday morning. Sam Parker dominated the slalom, taking 12 bullets out of the 16 races to beat Mike Nelson and Sam Fawkes for the overall weekend score with Tristan Perez taking out the FE+ scores.

Results are below with some photos from Sean Dayhew and Adam Craven.

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13 Responses to “Heat 5 @ Hawks Nest”

  1. Rick 03. Feb, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Is that poor old John O’Brien carrying Seans board again !!!!!!!

  2. Sean OBrien 03. Feb, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Pretty sure that’s just me wearing my Dad’s hat.

    Ps. Results won’t be up till later tonight (damn slalom!). But in the meantime you can navigate to the photo gallery here:

    http://www.storm-riders.com.au/results/photo-galleries/2008-09-event-photo-galleries/?album=5&gallery=41

    Pics by Sean Dayhew.

  3. Sean OBrien 03. Feb, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Oh, and if anyone is wondering how you can get a little picture next to your comment … you need to go to http://www.gravatar.com and register with the email address you use for comments and upload a picture. Takes about 30 seconds…

    It will then work on every website in the world that supports comments with Avatars.

    What a world we live in.

  4. Sean Dayhew 04. Feb, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Formula pics on sunday were by Adam Craven, i was busy slicing my foot open.
    Thanks to the guys who helped patch it up.
    I have the high res pics if any one is after a copy.
    email me at Sean@virginbroadband.com.au

  5. steven 04. Feb, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Hello Sean,
    Could you check my results…

    I think my drops should be 24,24,16,12 with a total points of 63.75, which means I beat Murray.

    Thanks for doing the results. I saw how long it took saturday night/morning and it takes ages!

    PS: I like slalom!

  6. mike 04. Feb, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    how cool was it to watch the SE+ fleet – awesome to watch Mick, Baz, Pauly C, Mark and Louis up against the evil formula boarded Tristan (eveil, althoug probably harder – particuarly with only one harness line!)

  7. admin 04. Feb, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    There are a few typos in the resuls… will fix them up tonight. Cheers.

  8. Rick 05. Feb, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Go Prancer !!

  9. Chris 05. Feb, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    John, what’s going on? I can’t beleive they overlooked you for “Irish Sailor of the Year”

    http://www.star-board.com/2009/pages/news/news.php?readmore=485

  10. Bruce Healey 06. Feb, 2009 at 10:21 am

    Rick, I think your bottom batten is broken. Nice Storm Riders sticker.

  11. Sean OBrien 06. Feb, 2009 at 11:56 am

    I put that sticker on manually – hence why it looks so distorted!

    If you want to be on the featured-image of the website (and I will try to do everyone I can over the season eventually) you have to have something on your sail; whether you put it on or I do!

  12. Bruce Healey 06. Feb, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    SEAN, MAYBE U CAN ADD A RUG FOR RICK WHILE YOU ARE AT IT. MAKES YOU WONDER HOW HIS BRAINS DON’T GET FRIED SAILING WITH NO HAT.

    MIKE, I AGREE, IT WAS GREAT WATCHING THE FE BLOKES. ONLY ONE GYBE, CLEARER RUN AT THE MARK, LOOKS TEMPTING DOESN’T IT.

  13. Tristan 06. Feb, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    The slalom was great fun, even with the formula board. It certainly improved my gybes.