Wow what a fantastic day.

First thing. Thanks so much for the responsible conduct. There were plenty of people, blokarts, kids and even a horse on the course and I did not get a single complaint or get any bad attitude from all the passers by. I think the beach goers really enjoyed it and we had a bunch of proper spectators during the feature race. Cheers guys.

Thanks to Peter Lynn Kites for the prize.

Riders came from far and wide. 3 from the South Island, 1 from Hawkes bay, 1 from Ohakune, 1 from Taranaki, 5 from Auckland, 2 from the Waikato, and 3 from Raglan.

On the beach at 10am. Very light onshore enough to pump the big kites around the sky but not enough for motion. Around 11.15 a light sea breeze kicked in and the sky was suddenly full of 8mtr+ Kites. This light breeze stayed around and we started the feature race at 1.30. 11 Buggies and a land board going around a 2km course 10 times for 20km. The start was a beautiful thing with Craig and Perrin taking an early lead. Some dodgy starts and poor early mark roundings stretched the field out and within 5 laps Craig Perrin and Matt (riding with a cast on his foot) were the only riders on the lead lap. Craig again demonstrated his dominant form and lapped the entire field to be the only one to complete the 10 laps. Matt hunted Perrin down and took second only to lose it thinking the race was over. He hunted Perrin down again And finished second with Perrin in third, the first of the north islanders. The next three all had good pace but had issues with starts, round markings and kite crashes. Wayne taking 4th Pete 5th and Manu from Switzerland taking 6th. Rexton managed to beat the lone boarder for 7th with Plummet using some great form to get his board into a very credible 8th.
Ian Dave and Conrad bought up the rear of the field with some good laps and some issues. Paul put some good laps in and got lapped less than some but retired shortly before the end.

That race was brilliant to watch and all the boys had big smiles at the end.

In the end the guy with the best form won and hopefully some lessons were learned along the way. Tyre and kite choice played its part. Hard wire is a pain in a light wind with your kite on the ground. Getting right around a mark and heading back down the course is essential. Craig and Perrin both had immaculate form but Matt managed to steal 2nd with good old fashioned raw pace.

Craig sponsored the race and won his own prize so he put it back up for grabs. We had a grudge match between the buggiers with the weeny kites and the board. Ian got a great start and motored off leaving Dave and plummet tangled up. Unfortunately he turned back thinking there was a restart. Once the tangle was free and the field were storming down the course Plummet hauled the buggies in and came in first to take the prize with Dave first buggy home and Ian making the podium. Ian was the only guy in the field using a home made kite it flew great but was a tad small..

After all that we jammed the afternoon away as people slowly packed up and left. Perrin and I packed up at 6pm.


Results Peter Lynn Sponsored Outlaw Racing Jan 10 2010.

Feature Race 20km

Craig Hansen 1st 10 laps Brilliant form. Right kite, Right buggy.
Matt 2nd 9 laps Rode great. Hunted down one the best.
Perrin 3rd 9 laps Great kite. Tyres too slow. Great form
Wayne 4th 8 laps Really good pace. some rounding issues
Pete 5th 8 laps Great pace great buggy. Some issues.
Manu 6th 8 laps Some good speed. good kite and buggy.
Rexton 7th 6 laps Showed potential. Watch out for this one.
Plummet 8th 6 laps Beat some buggies fair and square.
Ian 9th 6 laps Rode very well. Not quite enough kite
Dave 10th 5 Laps Small kite. Difficult roundings. Well done
Conrad 11th 4 laps Fouled bridle. Kite flew bad.OK considering
Paul Retired 7 laps Some solid laps. Great kite and buggy.DNF

Grudge Race 1 lap

Plummet 1st Foul at start, hunted the buggies down, Great speed.
Dave 2nd Great kite and buggy. Rode well for 1st Buggy home.
Ian 3rd Communication issue. Rode well. Needed a bigger kite.

Thanks for coming.

Blue Balls Buggy Bash In the winter at Kawhia. don't miss it.

Well i feel a bit better if the feature race was with 8m+ kites i would have been out as the biggest i've got is a 6.8m Viper no match for those new reactor II or the twister II even at the same size. And like i said i can get my arsed kick by craig any weekend he comes up to chch for a blast. Sounds you guys had a great day and will see anyone who is going to the nelson kite fest in two weeks.

What a sweet day. Great to apart of some action. My complete lack of buggy racing showed and i managed to mangle my kite into rextons on the first turn... light wind dogged the actual race with maybe 10 knots max but more like 6-8knots.

i could have done with that 12m yak that was lurking in the background.... man what a crazy thing tho. kites every where, speedy experts blasting along, some intermetiate riders and some newbie's and me the long landboarder all thrown in together.

It was probably a good thing that the wind was light. because if it was 20 knots or so there would have been mayhem with the mix of skill, kites, speed present.

After the race the wind picked up to 10-12 knots and the boys busted out some speed. not quite enough wind for any decent jumps but i managed to mangle a few.

total distance for the day 60km
ave 24kph
max44 kph.

Good times good times...

Thanks to Charlie for organising the event and to Craig at Peter Lynn for sponsering the prize. Unbeknown to my wife she'll be dangling off that 5.5 pepper in the not too distant future.

Also this has spurred me on to organise the himatangi to waikanae challenge. First i need to complete the course myself to see how viable it is. Then i'll be looking at perhaps a spring event. I need time to organise.

race start was interesting for me, i had a borrowed large kite, thanks pete
i had 15 mins to test it out , got back , threaded my way to the back of the field thinking it would be better out of the first lap carnage. Dropped my kite for the start and wine glassed it then the race started , eek !

i managed to unwrap it with a little knowhow, a i was off about 500m behind the main rivals. first corner i had caught the mid pack only to have a kite drop in front , i had to drop my kite and reverse out of the mess. Got going and left the two blokes tangled and made some ground on the blokes that got away unhindered pretty quickly only to stuff the kite down again at the end of the first lap. 10 !!! ground launches later i had finished the race, i know i didnt have the outright fastest kite/buggy combo but if i had of held it together i might have given 3rd some headaches . interesting the finishing order was almost in kite size order too 10.8 8.6? 8.0 7.3 10m manta 6.9

AL, even on a borrowed yak 6.0 you would have struggled , the wind was pretty light !!
it was the day of the yak 12 and moose truck Eugene, oh the pain that you weren't there lads....

Great day Charlie , great day The blueballs calls upon some hardy people , but today was certainly not a hardship, the timing of the event was perfect too, great to see the peterlynn crew and some of the latest race kites emerge. I cant say ill let the latest beating do anything but motivate me to be a better pilot and craft faster buggies, i have certainly been getting soft flying the blurrs that turn so easily and i need to get my yak licence back !!

note that Craig had a 10.8 for the race.

Also i was amused before the race with a random topless woman sauntering up the beach.... hehehe.

Topless women is very rare here but we do get the odd and i do mean very odd naked oldman

topless women!! sounds like my "pit crew"! haha
they got there at the five minute flag, one i havent seen for 4 months
spent 5.1 minutes yaking, so by the time i got started everyone else was at the
far marker!!

i tried "crashing" right in front of craig to slow him up, but no good

at the end chalie point out something was wrong with my bridle.
i found part of it caught up tight against the larks head.
but i think the main problem was the brake lines to tight.
fixed that and the the kite worked be it abit late!
(kite: pl twister 7.7)

so much for the pit crew!


conrad

Brilliant day!!!

As a newbie, it's pretty cool to have raced with some of the best in the country.

The 3.5 N-gen was a little small for the conditions but I'm hoping it'll go well in a stronger breeze. There seems to be a lot more to learn about flying it than I first thought. I think I'll be bending Al's ear on this one.

Raglan is excellent, I surfed it quite a few years ago but I now see it in another light altogether

Racing is so cool, I just need a 20M kite and a bit more experience.......
Ok, a lot more experience first, and maybe an 8M for those low wind days....and a bigger buggy.
MMM.... must compose that letter to Santa.

Hehe you realise that after a while that you need all sorts of kites and equipment when kiting.

Yourl need a good 4 or 5 fixed bridle kites for buggy racing or 2 de-power kites. The depower kites do a massive wind range compared to the fixed bridles but ultimatly they are less efficient. so i'f you have stable wind conditions and the correct fixed bridle kite for the wind (aka Craig from Peterlynn) then you will roost.

But if the wind is up and down. Say the wind had picked up to 15-20 knots during the race. the depower guys would have carried on while the fixed bridle guys would have had to change kites.

a 5m or 6m fixed bridle would probably be the next size yourd want for the buggy.

You need to put the Blue balls buggy bash and the moose meet on your callender.

kite sizes can go 2 3.5 5 7 or 2 4 6 8 for a good set i currently have 2.5 3.4 4 5 6 but obviously need that 7.3 i used on the weekend... oh well . i did enjoy the manta 2 10m , it was most fun passing Dave P on his land board literally with my hands behind my head. Get a buggy before the moose Dave P.. or better yet build one ! Petes got the modified re-caro mold for a nice carbon buggy.

sorry boys buggy is off the list for a few years. it will happen at some stage but not yet. still too big to fit in my car and the amount of available kitesurfing here is heaps more than buggying can allow so more kitesurf equipment will take focus on the $$ front.

So its racing on the board for now.

I did have a larger kite available on the day but elected to
fly the 3.5N-Gen, thinking that the wind would pick up
in time for the race.....wrong!

It appears that I've got a lot to learn about kite selection.

Of course the wind did pick up just after the feature race and prior to
the 'grudge match'

You'd think that the forecasters could give us the exact time
of wind changes, at least down to the last minute or so.

But seriously, I think I've got a real addiction growing here and
I blame Perrin.

He shall henceforth be known as 'The Candyman'

Brilliant day, I'm still buzzing.

Hehe... or a 1.8m, 2.7m, 3.5m, 5m, 7m and 12m six kite quiver collecting all kinds of dust in the workshop! The 8m Pansh is out of the quiver as the 7m and 12m are close enough at the lower windranges.

I know someone who would be very keen to borrow that seat mold!

Sticking with my mostly SS bugs. I have tons of great ideas on monocoque composite creations but by and large run a metal fabrication workshop and the materails are cheap and repairable. Especially as I afford to kitesurf too.

do you really kitesurf guster? or indeed do any form of powerkiting? i'm starting to think you spend all your time fabricating and not kiting?

Fighting words? maybe. nah i'm just teasing. But with all the forum banter and advice i expect to see and race the mighty guster at events so i can beat you! hehe. which i did last time ! i remember multiple kite quiver guster bought a 1.5m badly behaving kite to a 3m kite race.....

i think your new years resolutions should be. Put down the tig stick. get a hold of handles or a bar and fly the hell out of some kites. it will do you a world of good.

I semi appologise for my random abuse.

Yup. 3 hours in 15-20 knots cross shore at Mair road in Ruakaka on Sunday. Turned about 30deg off shore later too and I was having a blast on an 17m Ozone prototype(which I'll be happy to buy when it's current owner chooses to let it go) Been a bit busy since my last sesh just before Christmas. I always tend to hit the water rather than the beach if time and tide don't allow for a buggy. Or if it rains... or if it's too blustery... or if I really need the endorphin fix.

My buggies are in a state of overhaul which has made it a little hard to get out.That and the mass of southerlies we've been having.

That little 1.8m behaved better than the 1.8m Core I flew earlier that day. The 2.7, 3.5 and 5m was sitting with a courier and only arrived middle of the following week. However I was too lazy to unrig and put my own handles on. I don't have any luck with commercial handles either as you saw that day. Few knots and I was banging down the beach again.

Random abuse... you've just added fuel to the fire mate. Time to add 'boarder-bars' to the moosetruck! House renovations are nearing an end but with #2 arriving in June it is likely another year of the same.

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It was so good to have you along. I personally would not like to have been out in that race. It looked very busy. good on you for playing with the fast boys.

now that was a race meeting ! right race right guy right time right beach


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