After a great summer of racing and a brilliant end of series party I thought it might be a good idea to post the final results for the series. I’ve meaning to do this for weeks and with the start of the Frostbite series this Sunday and the Winter Sprint series next week I thought it best to get this post out now to wrap it all up.

We’re almost at the end of our first Summer Sizzler race series and there a few battles going on in the ranking after race 9 and as there is only one race left to go it could make race no 10 very interesting.

Here are the results and current leader board. Remember the final is this Saturday (22nd September) at St Brelades with a party after at Portlet from 7pm.

Last weekend 10 of the Jersey SUP Club paddlers headed to St Malo to compete against some of Frances top Stand Up Paddlers in the Paddle Party 2012. The event was held over Saturday and Sunday and the weather was amazing.

On the Saturday the 1^st race was a 5km around the back of the walled town. The setting was stunning and there was a huge crowd along the beach and the ramparts cheering all the racers on.

The second race of the day was a 10km race in the St Malo marina. The race was started in the water by the Pirate ship and the course took the racers around the whole harbour which meant they had to crouch and paddle under a bridge to get from one part to the next. For this race there were spectators all among the bridge and banks shouting support and there were even a few familiar Jersey faces in the crowd.

Sundays race was held in Dinard. The first race was 5km from Dinard to Saint Lunaire, once there we had a relaxing 3 hours enjoying a BBQ before the 2^nd race of the day, another 5km back to Dinard.

Jason Stolte summed up the weekend very well with these words

“Quite an experience racing with so many people over 4 races and 25k. The individual battles, the camaraderie, the sheer physical effort. Each one of us cheered on our colleagues over the finish united in the challenge and the battle of racing across the sea with a paddle and a board, respectful of each other’s efforts and all brothers at the end.”

“One of my best weekend’s ever for the experience. It wouldn’t have mattered where I came but actually leading the last race if only for 50 yards and coming 4th overall was the icing on the cake.”

The Jersey crew would like to thank the organisers of both days for putting on a spectacular event. We couldn’t have been made to feel more welcome and look forward to coming back for the next one.

The class results were worked out based on your total scores over the four races.
Men’s 14ft class – results out of 10

2 – André LE GEYT
3 – Jason STOLTE
5 – Aaron ROWE

Men’s 12’6 class – results out of 26

3 – John HARVEY
5 – Gary SMITH
9 – Tim ROWE
12 – Mark CREEDON
14 – Alan FERNANDES
22 – Richie LANGFORD
23 – Steve ASCROFT

Click here to view photo’s from the 1st day of racing Paddle Part 2012

Summer Sizzler race #8 was held at Belcroute on Sunday 28th July 2012 under blue sky’s and in flat sea’s. Belcroute is a stunning bay with St Aubins fort in the back ground and small boats anchored in the natural harbour.

For me this was the best race of the series so far as we had 5 ladies turn up for the first proper ladies race of the series which Elsa stormed, and after the men’s race we held a Prone sprint race  which most of us had a go at and was really fun. Hopefully more of that to come in the future!! Thanks to Stuart from Gone Paddling for bring the prone boards.

Here are the results and leader board from the day plus some pictures courtesy of Tim Rowe and Elsa Fernandes.

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Video of the Prone sprints

Video of the ladies race

Summer Sizzzler race no 7 was held under blue summer sky’s at St Brelades Bay on Sunday 15th July at 16:30. The course was a triangular course taking the racers up the right hand side of the bay, around the rocks next to devil jaws where they headed left to do a short Down wind run to the far left corner of the bay where they had to surf on to the beach and run with their board around the beach flag and back to the water. Once in the water the racers had to paddle along the shore line to a sea marker in the right hand corner into a F5 head wind and deal with side swell all the way.

The course was 2,5 laps = 4 miles.

Thank you to Tim Rowe for this GPS footage.

Results

Overall leader board

All photo’s courtesy of Elsa Fernandes 

Summer Sizzler race no 6 was held at St Brelades Bay on Sunday 1st July at 16:30. The sun was shining and there was actually some warmth coming off it. The wind was blowing from the North and at times was a little gusty there was also a small amount of swell pushing in which meant there were a few bumps to be found.

The course was the confusing ARROW lay out which involves multiple turns and for a short laid out course actually covers a fair distance. This race was 3 laps which = 3.5 miles.

Race course data courtesy Tim Rowe

There were 9 SUP racers, 2 prone and 2 Ski’s that took part in the race

Results and Leader board

After the main race a few people hung on to take part in a fun relay race.

There were two teams and each team had a mix of SUP, Prone and Ski. The course was simple, each person had to do one lap to the marker and back, run up the beach and tag the next person.

Team 1 was Andre – Prone, Gary – SUP, Stuart – Ski and Dave L – SUP

Team 2 was John – SUP, Tim T – Prone, Richie – SUP, Robbo – Ski

In the end it was Team 1 that took the win

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Tim Rowe, Aaron Rowe, Chris Bates and Mark Creedan left Jersey Wednesday night to start their 5 hour journey down to the island of Oleron in SW France. The boys are heading off to compete in a World series event with a prize purse of $10,000. This is one of the biggest European events on the year and will attract the biggest names in Europe and the World.

The event is circled around one main race the 30KM distance race from la Plage de Soubregeon to Saint-Denis d’Oléron. The race will start at 2pm on the Friday and they will be going with the current with the added hope that the wind will also be there to  help them along. Last year the wind was against the racers for most of the race.

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Saturday and Sunday will be more fun days with Beach sprint races in a BOP style, Relays and if there’s surf they will run a SUP surf comp.

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Friday 09:18 – Update from Mark

Last night the boys filled up on pasta and got an early night. Last night there was some concern from organsiers that the race may have to be split in to two part due to the wind. This morning the call has been made to run the race in one full stretch as the wind is set to drop. The boys are waiting now for the next update for the race start time.

There is no live coverage but there maybe updates on the FB link.

Summer Sizzler 3.5 the mid week special was held on Tuesday 29th @19:00 at low tide St Brelades Bay. The conditions were amazing with no wind and a sea fog hanging out at sea that gave a spooky look to the bay.

The main race was a 1.5 mile sprint race out to sea in to the fog and back. It started off as a close race between Andre, Chester and Greg Mansell on their 14′s but soon Andre and Chester broke away with Andre gaining a comfortable lead. John took Greg on the second marker on the 12’6 and kept that lead to the end.

After the main race the 8 competitors split in to two teams of 4 to do a relay race.

Team 1 – Andre, Greg, Richie, Tim

Team 2 – Chester, John, Kevin, Gary

It was Team 2 that were victorious but it was close all the way.

If that wasn’t enough the competitors then did timed sprint trials in the dying light on Gary’s 12’6 Tabou.

1. John Harvey – 2:19
2. Andre Le Geyt – 2.21
3. Gary Smith – 2.28
4. Greg Mansell – 2.29
5. Tim Tredant – 2.39
6. Richie Langford – 2.49

Results from main race and leader board. It’s still all to play for and this series is going to be close

Click here for leader board

It was testing conditions with strong winds but everyone pulled through and there were some competitors who improved on their normal placings by 2.

So the final results were

There will also be a prize for who you think the most improved racer is over the Frostbite series and i will be asking you to tell me in secret who you would like to nominate.

So to confirm
Race date – Sunday 15th April
Time – 13:00
Venue – St Brelades Bay Harbour