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Speedsurfingblog: The Grevelingen Chop Team, West
Recently in the UK we were graced with a visit by some gales in a perfect direction to light up the now famous West Kirby speed strip. I came online to update the article I wrote about it – West Kirby – Autumn Gales 2011. I have been waiting for everyone to post on GPS-speedsurfing.com, now most seem to have posted I could copy the final table of the day for my article. It was then that I saw something I could not quite believe, I will explain soon.
Another article about West Kirby by a legend class sailor, Norman Petty was also written – A different perspective on the now famous West Kirby day. and I tried to collect all the videos of the day in one place here – West Kirby 6th October Collection of Videos
A few days after their visit to the UK, Jacques van de Hout and Hans Kreisel managed an amazing session which made me realise what the Portland Pirates we up against in the GPS Team Challenge. Only last year when I first joined the GPS team challenge my peak speeds were the same as the hour average these two posted, see here – Grevelingen Chop Team does it again. It really was an amazing session. We were talking at the beach several times about the impact they had at West Kirby and the consistency of their sailing.
So what could I not believe when I saw it?
Look closely at the table. Can you see what it is?
There are an amazing amount of 40knot averages for one spot on one day, but that is not it.
There is a 48.3 knot 2 second peak, but that’s not it.
It doesnt say my name at the top, or anywhere on the table, but that’s not it
There are a lot of Alphas missing and if you spotted that then you are close.
There is one amazing Alpha (sorry Hans yours is very good as well in those conditions compared to all the others). Jacques managed a 28knot Alpha in what I have heard some hardened British sailors describe as the hardest, strongest, heaviest and best winds they have ever sailed in.
These sort of performances, by all speedsurfers that go out in such hardcore conditions deserve more recognition. It is that which I hope to achieve through both Eriks Speedsurfingblog and my Redsurfbus.com website. Please help us on both sites by getting in touch with articles about your local or national records that we may miss or not know about. We are all doing this in our spare time and there is only so much we can do. Or if you are very rich and have too much money you could pay us to report this full time 😉
Good speeds and winds, ’The Bus’
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