Blogging Updates - Rolex Middle Sea Race 2010 and Some Other Stuff

Nothing has been put up on the blog for a long time so here are some photos. The biggest event was coming 2nd overall in the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2010 on ''ARTIE''.




Team 'ARTIE'

Before the start

First out of the harbour in our group after the start

Photo taken by Kurt Arrigo for Rolex

After crossing the finishing line

Celebration!

Team 'ARTIE'

Some Shots of me Today

When the wind came up!

This is the first of a sequence shot

2nd sequence shot

3rd sequence shot

TODAY

SOME OF US!

SWITCH STANCE

VULCAN

PHOTOS BY BUNTY

Good Windsurfing on Wednesday

I was getting some pretty high jumps in - some of the jumps were the highest I have had

Tommy was sailing really well and his table tops are looking good

The 'point' was great with some good swell and some really big sets too. Dana in this pic going for backloops.

Sean Arrigo took all the pics on Wednesday. Looking forward to getting some more.

JOHN GHALLIS TODAY

THIS WAS ME THIS MORNING AT GHALLIS. THERE WERE SOME REALLY BIG WAVES AT TIMES.

PICS TAKEN BY BUNTY

JOHN

This yacht is racing in the Rolex Middle Sea Race right now. Next week I am joining it on the delivery to Gran Canaria. It is a Beneteau 47.7 and is owned by Global Yacht Racing.

This is a small video of me yesterday doing a backwind gybe in Ghallis. The conditions were really bad!

Allison Shreeve and her Bass Strait Crossing

Allison attempted to windsurf across the 240Km Bass Strait from Tasmania to Australia this week. After 9 hours of tough 30 to 35km winds and 2 to 4 m swells she had to stop cos she was getting alot of cramp and hypothermia. Allison still managed to achieve one of her main aims which was to sail 100km of the Australian coast using sail power. She did this to raise money for Coastcare.

You can see some video and read about Coastcare on these links:

http://www.bassstraitchallenge.com/

http://www.coastcare.com.au/

Great Weekend

Yesterday gale force wind and today really good wind and sailed Ghallis. Got some nice high jumps in. I am very happy cos I am jumping much higher now.

Now I am totally knackered!!

John's Pics Today

Chop Jump

Chop Jump

Going for duck tack

WINDY WEEKEND COMING!

FORECAST IS REALLY WILD FOR THE WEEKEND . GALE FORCE WIND FROM THE NORTH WEST. AVERAGE OF 35 KNOTS!!!!!! SOME RADICAL ACTION AT LAST!

No News

JOHN REPORTING! SORRY NO NEWS JUST BEEN ALOT OF HARD WORK FOR MANWEL AND ME DOWN AT THE WATER SPORTS CENTRE ALL SUMMER. WE HAVE DONE A LOAD OF WAKEBOARDING WHICH IS GREAT FUN, MANWEL DOING GOOD 360'S AND ME GETTING SOME GREAT HEIGHT. I ALSO STARTED TO MONO SKI WHICH IS FREAKY FAST AND EXCITING WITH GREAT WIPE OUTS - OUCH!

THIS AFTERNOON HOPE TO GO AND DO SOME TIME ON A THUNDERCAT WITH A FRIEND.

FISHING HAS ALSO BEEN BAD - SEEMS THEY ARE NOT BITING RIGHT NOW, THINK THEY ARE IN DEEPER WATER COS THE WATER TEMP. IS PRETTY WARM .

Yesterday

''KITING MOBILE''

GOING FOR SOME SPEED

JOHN

MANWEL

SPOCK

Pic taken last weekend not yesterday!

Managed to plane away from a Spock yesterday. Cool!

More Shots Taken Today

Some Good Shots Today

SOME COOL PICS OF US TAKEN TODAY.

Some short Video

I went down quickly the other day when I got back from school. It was a dying wind and it was a bit difficult to do anything much. So they are quite boring! Oh well better than nothing.

John

Stormy Thursday

This is a really short video and not very good but it shows all

the mush and strong current we had during the storm on Thursday.

I also managed a few vulcans and tried some geckos just for fun.

Try doing a gecko in a force 8-9! It's cool!

John Gecko

Just a small sequence shot of the Gecko............cool move for light wind

No Wind

There's been no wind - so nothing to report. Forecast looking good for next week so maybe will get some surf time and also some new pics.

Quote of the day: ''The Hour of Power'' - Jem Hall Ace Windsurfing Coach

Meaning: You sail just a short time but you give it all you got!

Some More Cool Pics

Jus' luuuvv posin' for the camera

Hi down there

As long as we are on the water we're having fun!

Ok...Ok....lookin' cool!

Flyin' high!

No Feet

Can't stop doin' those Vulcans!

Cool shot - thanx Gavin

All the above shots were taken by our friend Gavin - not bad cos it was his first time taking shots of us in the water. He'll be taking some more soon we hope and they're going to get better and better and more radical!