Port Waikato
28/29/5/11
Racing, speed trials, Dune riding, One make.

On the Beach Saturday.

Dunes Sunday.

Nice Motor camp.

People coming from all over.

See you there

What sort of amenities are at PW charlie. Is it a largish town with supermarket etc. Can i juts purchase supplies up there or do i need to consider being a swathe of food with me in a chilli bin.

PS It looks like a sweet flat water kitesurfing spot too. Risking of inciting rage of the event organiser i may need to skim across the liquid aswell. . . . . if the moment presents its self.

pss if you believe forecasts this far out saturday is looking primo.

I believe it has a dairy and a chip shop. Maybe a cafe.

No Pub even.

Bring ecerything. I don't think the camp is keen on the binge drinking thing though.

ok swathe it is. do binge drinking here... infact no drinking at all.... i'll make up for it by being sober and silly.

Woohoo Rain. Such a good omen. Don't stop. Not until 10am Saturday.

Woohoo Rain. Such a good omen. Don't stop. Not until 10am Saturday.

Friday and Saturday are looking very good wind , direction and pretty much fine weather.

looks like quite an ideal forecast at this stage. onshore ish on sat good for speed and racing on the hard and cross on on sunday which will be good for the dunes.

Whoot.

I'll be getting up early sat morning and aiming to hit the beach at 10.

ok im going fri-sat nite anyone want to be a camping buddy so were not not paying 36$ Each! ??? it 36 for one or two ppl

who eles is looking at going fri night too?

Have you wrung them up yet 50? I think they may be doing deals for the BBBB people. I've gone for the decadence of a single cabin for sat night $45.

im goin down friday and am happy to share a camping spot...altho a was tempted to camp on the beach friday nite and watch the sun go down with a nice cold beer....maby have to hangout in the carpark for a while.

Have a blast guys!

"watch the sun go down with a nice cold beer....maby have to hangout in the carpark for a while."

What, and watch buggy up and down the beach ,hehe

Saturday Morning. 11.30 Must get a ride in before I put my stewards cap on.

I'll be there Friday morning testing the sand,after I pack and fight traffic
I'll be tenting it in the camp ground, It's not called the Blue Balls for nothing

thers an awsome big log down the beach, im gonna drive their if i can in the morn and set up a bit of a pad with the van for us to chill out in, its a nice little spot with acces to the flats at the rivermouth and thoes cool blowthrough holes an stuff, intresting little spot and out of the way of folk, should be good.

charlie you scare me in your stewards cap, as soon as you put it on im instantly introuble for something..

How far is that from the car park by the chip shop.

Hotel log, Half way down, I think , it may be to far for the non 4x4 drivers,
how about we go and have a look

well going by the forecast the correct amount of goats have been sacrificed this time! whoot. . . .. hopefully someone can stash my gear in there 4wd and take it to the log. . . . . .
20 knots. ooh i have 5 kites that work in 20 knots. i'll be setting those bastards up like a lemonds start and flying almost the whole quiver at once!!!.... yeah. can you tell i'm pumped.

breathe deeply Plummet!- alas, due the shortcomings of recently used mechanic, i've no car this weekend - well i have a hire car but it's a crappy little thing only good for running to the local shops, so I wish you all well and hope that the wind blows hard for you. I will be Johnny no mates this weekend but will be sure to have a session on the land board to get into the spirit of things.

a great event on day 1 with big thanks to Charlie , the speed gun was a much welcomed event


i would really like to buy some of the photos taken at the gate end from the radar and the race if someone knows how to get them .

the guy taking photos at the gate was my boss, ill have a talk to him....dont know what his picture rights policy is but im sure we will all set some picks out of it....will find out tmrow..

Awesome , Epic weekend, thanks again Charlie.
I think it's going to be a early bed tonight,
I'm buggered (hang on, I saw what happen to all the goats)
I'll change that to, I'm very tired

jimmy22 - it's only those online sites that you visit where you have to pay to view the images

sweet weekend. Some insane racing. Full credit to the speed gun opperator (Charlies boy? Sorry i've forgotten his name) for having balls of steel by holding true while 100kg+ lumps ofd flesh and steel hurtled towards him.

Jimmy turned up like a rock star with shiny buggies and aerodynamic helemt smoked most of the feild 2nd in the race and the 3rd in the speed trap and disappeared just as fast as he arrived.
we played try and get the peugot stuck. there was some monster squids flying in the sky.

Gannet owned the weekend with first equall in the trap and dominating the race.

Overpowered Doom was floating around the sky.

That Hansen fellow snapped a line and was added into the beaten by plummet club!

Night flying as usual was amusing.

Sunday we had landboardable dunes. i rigged the 15 manta and blasted up and down the dunes for 10mins then the wind buggered off.... none the less it was sweet even for a short session.

Good times boy. I look forward to the moose.

It was a bit rushed , at least rushing in the race got a good result i took up the method so i would have a reliable race and easy corners but i got a lot more and then wished i had used the same combo in the speed gate round. Hats off to Conrad for winning the gate !! im shocked Peter got his new buggy back afterward.

Thats 8m manta that conrad was on was perfectly powered! I did a run on it down the beach (before the speed trap) and pulled 60.5kph. fasted the 10m could do was 53 after that it was sideways action and the 9m c4 wasn't powered enough....

Still that jimmy scalp elludes me!... one day therel be a line break or tangle at the marker and I'll have a complete set buggy scalps! hehe haha hhoho hehehe....

yep! and awesome weekend! thank you all, particularly Charlie for organizing!!!

plummet's granny-board captured with my low-tech matchbox camera...

hey guys, check here www.mikepeffers.com under sports for the picks, there should be some real cool ones...

if you paticularly like a picture best thing to do will be deal directly with him on his email and sort out what you want to do..

special thanks to charlie, awsome as usual...i diddnt have a good day racing and couldnt get it togeather for the speed run...hurt my head pretty bad in an accident involving a fridge, a plank and a bottle of wine and just couldnt get it togeather after that!!

i did however have a awsome time with everyone (heaps of people) the most i have ever seen at a blueballs and hanging out some new peeps is always cool, one of the highlites was pulling conrads nissan grandroad off an invisible tree ,only go get down the beach to find perrins truck down a hole it had dug behind the car it was towing that was also in a very similar hole very close to the sea, infact some of the holes were actualy filling up with sea!! its amazing howmany people own minature spades and tractors in port waikato!

and one more sunday picture from my matchbox...

haha, thats gold bro


what an awsome little camera you have created their, im really impressed! good work.

you look very happy there, hehehe

cheers Al will do, pic 148 is awesome and i like a couple of gannet and plummet too

northernal321 wrote:


ok! so that was all planed! if you cant be the GATE MASTER! get your BIG log to jump out from under the sand and rip my car bumper off!!!!










I think al might have to give the full story

BUT the plan Failed!

I when back to the beach on sunday and found a bit of your BIG log and made it my new bitBUMPERch







now on a funnier note i ph nissan to see how much a new part is
(its just a meter long cross member that looks like an old piece of 40mm angle iron with holes in it)


$1400 for a new one!! no kidding, so new wooden bumper maybe permanent

cool. A little bit of timber stain would be a nice finishing touch

looks good but if I were you I WOOD make sure it doesn't obscure the headlight BEAM!!

ok so heres how it went, are you sitting comfortably?

AL; ok, bye conrad see you at the campsite

CONRAD; ok bye al.

al jumps into van, conrad jumps into truck, both drive off.

half a second later

CRUNCH!!

AL; WHAT THE F*@! WAS THAT

CONRED; WHAT THE F*@! WAS THAT

al looks over and sees conrads truck jammed squarley into a big log, front tyre almost off the ground an everything.
gets out of van and runs over to conrad..

CONRAD; i think i hit something

AL; YEA RIGHT!!

not the infamus big log of port waikato!!

sorry to hear about the price conrad, what a rip!!!

i definently WOODent be doing that again

on a lighter note, it is a very nice plank..

better than most

hahah pick of the week.

Hehe, conrad was looking for a good planker for a bumper

I believe the next photo is X rated

and were is dan's planking photo

all good al,i was just wondering if a new one was going to be cheaper than the hammer and Mig option. i guess not, since it may only be a 6 pack of green bottles

oh yeah, the bit of bumper at came off weighed in at over 8kg!! another good reason to leave it off!