Lochy Balboa!

Ok maybe not the Italian Stallion but Victoria's closest answer! Lochy Byrne did it and recorded his first and definitely not his last Championship win!

After two days of waiting due to no wind and gales, five races were ultimately sailed on the last day and Byrne defeated heavyweight Andrew McDougall. Sam England was first female in third place.



Yo, Andrew! It's me, Locky!

Mach 2 warranty transfer

Some of the early Mach 2's are now finding new owners as sailors upgrade to new boats. All Mach 2's are covered by a two year warranty and any warranty remaining is transferable to the new owner. If you sell your boat please don't forget to let us know the name of the new owner so we can keep our records straight. Thanks.

15 year old Mach 2 sailor does 23 knots!

Jack Sherring, the winner of the Silver edition Mach 2 auctioned on eBay shows that he's got the right stuff by clocking 23.4 knots recently.

McConaghy boats auctioned this stunning Mach 2 last year at Audio Victoria week and the proceeds went to the childrens charity "Variety"

Clearly Jacks been practising and he's' entered for the World Championships at Belmont in January. Are we seeing a future World Champion here?

Time to go to the Worlds!

Already! The Brits were packing up this weekend with Mike Lennon and Graham Simmonds leaving soon for holidays before the Worlds begin. Others like Simon Payne don't arrive until the 2nd of January but the boats are off this week! All agreed that it will be great to leave this weather behind us!



-1 degrees at Hayling Island. Sporting the new Mach 2 Roof box. Tricky in a side wind..



Mike Lennon hides from the snow as he packs up his Mach 2.

Bora Roarer!

Harbor Springs, it's practice day before the North Americans and Mach 2 sailor Bora Gulari is flying. Today with gust of 25 knots, Bora blasts through the 30 knots barrier with a 10 sec average of 28.9 knots and a 5 sec average of 30 knots. Hooking into a massive gust in the flat water of the harbor entrance, he ripped out the down wind top speed before the outside waves got the better of any further speed build. More to come from Harbor Springs as racing starts tomorrow.

From our US correspondant Richard Davies

Moth Madness. The Gorge goes Nuclear!

From our American Correspondant Richard Davies


First and Second place, Dalton Bergen and Charlie McKee duke it out
at the start of race 6. Photo Liz Davies

With a couple of Moth sailors away on big boat duties, 15 Mothistas descending on the Gorge for this weekends Moth Madness. As the competitors arrived on Wednesday for practice, little did they know Mother Nature was laying in wait. After "no wind wednesday" was spent hanging out and doing boat work, Thursday morning was awesome, 15 - 20 knots of breeze and flat water allowing the sailors to send it down wind at 25 knots boat speed with super high speed gybes order of the day. As the wind built after mid day everyone was back in anticipating the weekends racing. Friday dawned full on, the Gorge in meltdown with the breeze hanging in at 27 - 33 knot at the Stevenson pier, racing cancelled! Saturday, not much better may be 5 knots less breeze and with Sunday forecasted as even bigger, the RC decided to go for it wisely cramming 7 races into a morning and evening session to give us an event that will be remembered. And what wild wild races with the breeze rarely below 25 knots. Dalton sailed supremely to take 6 bullets only challenged by Adam Lowery in the last race. Adam was racing his new Mach 2 for the first time and was clearly on a charge, disappointed that Sunday racing was cancelled. Charlie, Matt and Zack battled it out for the minor placing and Hans took a well deserved 5th sailing an old bladerider, showing what youth and talent can do in a older boat.


Mid gybe!Photo Liz Davies

With Moths rarely racing in such conditions the wipe outs were spectacular and multiple, with everyone experiencing being flattened in the gusts whilst foiling up wind. It also shows how fast the sailors in the class are developing their skills as racing was tight through the fleet and all making it around the course in some shape or fashion.

Columbia Gorge Racing Association put on a great event under difficult circumstances and pulled off an event that was spectacular sailing, and tight racing in wonderful surroundings.

The circus now moves on to the North Americans in Harbor Springs, weekend of August 6th through 8th where Bora and Bear will be rejoining the racing. Charlie McKee and Adam Lowry will be demoing the Moth the weekend before.


Results:
1 Dalton Bergen
2 Charlie McKee
3 Matt Pistay
4 Zack Maxam
5 Hans Henken

Robby Burns to 30 knots!

Worlds front runner and slalom winner Rob Gough showed once again thats he's the fastest Moth sailor in the world downwind by clocking 30 knots in his Mach 2 in Tasmania last weekend and setting a new speed record for the class.

Rob said "I was using the MSL13 and the Mach 2 mast. I was doing laps around a course in 25 to 30 knots. Coming in to the bottom mark doing 25 knots I got a bloody big gust that pushed me up to 30. The boat is quite stable at those speeds, sitting back heaps and praying that the wand (which is flicking like crazy) will do it's job".

Shit and to think just 2 years ago we had the prestigious "20 knot club"

Take a look at these numbers from Robs record breaking run, they are immense! What an effort!

>> This page was build with GPSActionReplay. Visit www.gpsactionreplay.com
>>
>> Rider : 100501_142159 , Setttings = [ANY best per run | LINEAR speed]
>> Total Distance = 23.713 Km , Average speed = 15.96km/h
>> [8.62Knots] , Total
>> Time = 1 hour 29 minutes
>> 5 bests' average = 53.7km/h [29Knots]
>> Best Speed n°1 = 56.84km/h [30.69Knots] (31.6 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°2 = 54.7km/h [29.54Knots] (30.4 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°3 = 52.98km/h [28.61Knots] (29.4 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°4 = 52.88km/h [28.55Knots] (29.4 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°5 = 51.11km/h [27.6Knots] (28.4 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°6 = 51.07km/h [27.57Knots] (28.4 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°7 = 50.68km/h [27.37Knots] (28.2 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°8 = 50.38km/h [27.2Knots] (28.0 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°9 = 50.33km/h [27.17Knots] (28.0 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> Best Speed n°10 = 50.33km/h [27.17Knots] (28.0 meters in 2.0 sec.)
>> 5 best 100 meter (at least) average = 50.34km/h [27.18Knots]
>> 100 meter run n°1 = 53.53km/h [28.9Knots] (119.0 m. in 8.0 s.)
>> 100 meter run n°2 = 49.75km/h [26.86Knots] (110.6 m. in 8.0 s.)
>> 100 meter run n°3 = 49.66km/h [26.82Knots] (110.4 m. in 8.0 s.)
>> 100 meter run n°4 = 49.63km/h [26.8Knots] (110.3 m. in 8.0 s.)
>> 100 meter run n°5 = 49.11km/h [26.52Knots] (109.1 m. in 8.0 s.)
>> 5 best 200 meter (at least) average = 49.18km/h [26.55Knots]
>> 200 meter run n°1 = 51.57km/h [27.85Knots] (200.6 m. in 14.0 s.)
>> 200 meter run n°2 = 49.37km/h [26.66Knots] (219.4 m. in 16.0 s.)
>> 200 meter run n°3 = 48.9km/h [26.4Knots] (217.3 m. in 16.0 s.)
>> 200 meter run n°4 = 48.14km/h [25.99Knots] (213.9 m. in 16.0 s.)
>> 200 meter run n°5 = 47.93km/h [25.88Knots] (213.0 m. in 16.0 s.)
>> 5 best 5 second (at least) average = 50.78km/h [27.42Knots]
>> 5 second run n°1 = 54.81km/h [29.59Knots] (91.3 m. in 6.0 s.)
>> 5 second run n°2 = 50.36km/h [27.19Knots] (83.9 m. in 6.0 s.)
>> 5 second run n°3 = 49.77km/h [26.87Knots] (83.0 m. in 6.0 s.)
>> 5 second run n°4 = 49.58km/h [26.77Knots] (82.6 m. in 6.0 s.)
>> 5 second run n°5 = 49.4km/h [26.67Knots] (82.3 m. in 6.0 s.)
>> 5 best 10 second (at least) average = 49.89km/h [26.94Knots]
>> 10 second run n°1 = 52.77km/h [28.49Knots] (146.6 m. in 10.0 s.)
>> 10 second run n°2 = 49.62km/h [26.79Knots] (137.8 m. in 10.0 s.)
>> 10 second run n°3 = 49.47km/h [26.71Knots] (137.4 m. in 10.0 s.)
>> 10 second run n°4 = 49.24km/h [26.59Knots] (136.8 m. in 10.0 s.)
>> 10 second run n°5 = 48.34km/h [26.1Knots] (134.3 m. in 10.0 s.)