Andre ” We had been planning this for a few months but the weather had been so up and down it had been hard to find the right day”

It all came together on Tuesday night when John and Andre were having a quick beer at Portlet after a boat trip to Le Minquiers.

John “We had been keeping an eye on the weather and at 11pm on Tuesday we decided that Wednesday would be the best day as the conditions were perfect. Light winds until late afternoon.”

Andre ” We left St Brelades at 10:45 and headed East, pretty much the whole way the wind was light and the sea dead calm. It was only when we got past Plemont that the wind picked up and there was a lot of water moving around the rocks at Grosnez which made it hard to paddle. That sections there was probably the only low point on the whole trip.

John ” Totally agree Grosnez was cold and dark but once past there we could see Corbiere and knew we were on the homeward leg, so we put how heads down and went for it.”

John and Andre both agreed that the hardest part of the paddle was as they came in to St Brelades bay as the wind had really picked up and was blowing straight in to them.

Once back on the beach the boys headed to the pub for a well deserved pint.

Click on the link for a short vid of the trip

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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.

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Jersey SUP Club Race Training 3/3/12 from jerseysupclub on Vimeo.

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