No Sábado fomos até Aveiro, fazer uma ondas, pensavamos nós ! Levamos só as pranchas de ondas e os kites pequenos porque a meteo dáva vento forte de Norte.
Quando chegamos ao spot da Costa Nova, achamos estranho não estar ninguem na praia, assim que subimos a duna logo vimos porquê, o mar estava todo desfeito, com ondas enormes e cheio de corrente, impraticável e muito perigoso. Quando estavamos a atravessar a ponte da ria para virmos embora, vimos uns quantos kites a andar na ria, fomos ter com eles e ainda deu para uma pequena sessão de strapless, para justificar a gasolina.
No Domingo nova sessão de freestyle na Murtosa, com poucos corajosos, o Filipe “Flip” a mostrar que quando o vento está forte deixa o landboard de lado e não receia em molhar-se mesmo com a baixa temperatura e um amigo dele do Porto, numa sessão com muito frio, onde chegou mesmo a granizar !
Para aqueles que pretendem escolher um destino ventoso, em qualquer altura do ano, aqui está um calendário com os destinos em que o vento é quase garantido, haja € !
January
Western Oz, Cumbuco Brazil, cape town-South Africa, La ventana-mexico, Boracay-philipines, Namibia, St. Louis-Senegal, Copal-Costa Rica, Mui Ne Bay-Vietnam, Nashiro-Japan, Baja, Barbados, Kenya-mombasa, BVIs, Carmelo-Uruguay, Buenos aires-Argentina, Hong Kong, Puclaro-Chile, Yemen-Red Sea, Zanzibar, Bahamas, Adicora, Tarifa
February
Margarita, Western Oz, Cumbuco Brazil, St. Louis-Senegal, cape verde, Melbourne, Hua Hin – Thailand, South Africa, La ventana-mexico, Boracay-philipines, Cap Chevalier-Martinique, Zanzibar-Tanzania, Copal-Costa Rica, Mui Ne Bay-Vietnam, Belize, Florida-USA, Nashiro-Japan, Baja, Barbados, South Padre Island-(TX)USA, Esbjerg-Denmark, cabarete, Bonaire-Carib, St. Lucia-Carib, Whitehaven-Whitsunday Islands, BVIs, Noordwijk ann Zee-Netherlands, Puclaro-Chile, Yemen-Red Sea, Bahamas, Coche, Adicora, Tarifa
March
El gouna-Egypt, cape verde, St. Louis-Senegal, cabarete, margarita, Western Oz, Hua Hin – Thailand, South Africa, La ventana-mexico, Esbjerg-Denmark, Antigua, Goa, Cap Chevalier-Martinique, Zanzibar-Tanzania, Copal-Costa Rica, Mui Ne Bay-Vietnam, Belize, Florida-USA, Barbados, South Padre Island-(TX)USA, Bonaire-Carib, St. Lucia-Carib, Negombo-Sri Lanka, BVIs, Ibiza-spain, Rosslare-Ireland, Watergate-UK, Cape Hatteras-USA, Puclaro-Chile, Yemen-Red Sea, Bahamas, Coche, Adicora, Los Roques, Tarifa
April
Pismo Beach – California, cape verde, Margarita, Western Oz, Hua Hin – Thailand, Antigua, Cap Chevalier-Martinique, Belize, Banff-Canada, Barbados, South Padre Island-(TX)USA, Safaga-Egypt, Bonaire-Carib, St. Lucia-Carib, Whitehaven-Whitsunday Islands, Negombo-Sri Lanka**, Ibiza-spain, Rosslare-Ireland, Watergate-UK, Cape Hatteras-USA, Puclaro-Chile, Coche, Los Roques, Adicora, Tarifa
May
Pismo Beach – California, cape verde, Margarita, Antigua, Cape Hatteras-USA, Leucate-France, Essaouira-Morocco, Iraq, El yaque-venezuela, ras sudr-egypt, Rhodes-Greece, porto pollo-Sardinia, Fuerteventura, cabarete, Bonaire-Carib, St. Lucia-Carib, Whitehaven-Whitsunday Islands, Ibiza-spain, Aruba-Carib, Tarifa, Puclaro-Chile, Mancora-Peru, El Coche, Adicora, Los Roques,
June
Pismo Beach – California, Cumbuco Brazil, Fuerteventura, Tenerife, cape verde, cabarete, Raratonga, The gorge-USA, Bol-Croatia, Ponto de Oura-Mozambique, Seychelles*, Maui-USA, fiji, Essaouira-Morocco, Guincho-Portugal, el yaque-venezuela, rhodes-greece, levkada-greece, dakhla-morocco , Corsica, Rhodes-Greece, Pirlanta-Turkey, Paramali-Cyprus, porto pollo-Sardinia, Lanzarote, Bonaire-Carib, St. Lucia-Carib, Sri Lanka**, Aruba-Carib, Puclaro-Chile, Mancora-Peru, Sumbawa-Indonesia, Los Roques
July
Cabarete, Fuerteventura, Cumbuco Brazil, Tenerife, Mauritius, Naxos-Greece, Raratonga, The gorge-USA, Pirlanta-Turkey, Bol-Croatia, Seychelles*, solomon Islands, Maui-USA, fiji, Tahiti, Essaouira-Morocco, Guincho-Portugal, el yaque-venezuela, rhodes-greece, levkada-greece, dakhla – morocco, Corsica, paros-Greece, porto pollo-Sardinia, Lanzarote, El Gouna-Egypt, Safaga-Egypt, Sinai, eilat-Israel, Paramali-Cyprus, Sri Lanka**, Maui-USA, Aruba-Carib, Puclaro-Chile, Mancora-Peru, Sumbawa-Indonesia
Tucus-Brazil, Western Oz, Sumbawa-indonesia, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Chile, Newquay-UK, Esbjerg-Denmark, rosslare-Ireland, Buenos aires-Argentina, Carmelo-Uruguay, Noordwijk ann Zee-Netherlands, Cape Hatteras-USA, Tarifa, Puclaro-Chile, Mancora-Peru, Cumbuco Brazil, Auckland-NZ
November
Melbourne, Tucus-Brazil, Cumbuco Brazil, Western Oz, Namibia, Sumbawa-indonesia, Auckland-NZ, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Newquay-UK, Buenos aires-Argentina, Carmelo-Uruguay, Hong Kong, Leucate-France, Noordwijk ann Zee-Netherlands, Tarifa, Puclaro-Chile, Cumbuco Brazil
December
Melbourne, Tucus-Brazil, Cumbuco Brazil, Western Oz, cape town-South Africa, La ventana-mexico, Namibia, Copal-Costa Rica, Mui Ne Bay-Vietnam, Auckland-NZ, Nashiro-Japan, Baja, New Caledonia, Boracay-philipines, Buenos aires-Argentina, Carmelo-Uruguay, Monastir-Tunisia, Hong Kong, Leucate-France, Cape Hatteras-USA, Tarifa, Puclaro-Chile, Yemen-Red Sea, Zanzibar
‘Alexandre Caizergues Speed World Cup Port St. Louis’
Backed into a logical corner, it seems that ISAF have realised they had no choice but to recognise Kite surfing records with the same status as other ISAF classes, so the new outright worlds speed record over 500 metres is now 50.57 knots.
John Reed the Secretary to the WSSR Council writes ‘‘We have been informed by the International Sailing Federation – ISAF – that they will support a decision by the WSSRC to ratify a claim for the Outright World Sailing Speed Record by a Kite-board.
‘In accordance with this, the WSSRC announces the ratification of a new World Record.’
Record: Outright World Sailing Speed Record.
Board: Fone Prototype Speed. Fone Bandit Dos Speed 7sq m kite.
Name: Alexandre Caizergues. FRA
Dates: 4th October 2008.
Start time: 15:35:00.84
Finish time: 15:35:20.06
Elapsed time: 19.22
Distance: 501m
Current: 0.1kts
Average speed: 50.57kts
Venue: Luderitz, Namibia.
Previous record: 2008. Sebastien Cattelan. 50.26 kts
Here is the footage from that record run.
The Council of the International Sailing Federation at their November 2008 had ruled that Kite surfing records could not be recognised as outright records.
The comment on the WSSRC website posted after the November meeting says, at the end of a note ratifying the record of Sebastien Cattelan at 50.26kts as being that of a Kiteboarding record only and adds: ‘Note that at the November Conference 2008, ISAF clarified that a kite-powered craft cannot be recognised as the holder of The World Sailing Speed Record.’ A source close to the World Sailing Record Council told Sail-World that they did not understand the ISAF decision and were seeking an urgent meeting with the world body to resolve the issue.
Sail-World’s New Zealand, Richard Gladwell commented at the time of the original decision:
‘ One problem is that the history of kites in the world of speed sailing is long, and goes back to the 1970’s with craft called Jacob’s Ladder which was essentially a Tornado platform powered by a set of kites which could be multiplied to suit the windstrength.
This kite powered craft held the record on a 500-metre course (235 sq. ft. to 300 sq. ft. class) for six years with a speed of 25 knots.
The ISAF decision was even more difficult to understand when the rules of the WSSRC state: ‘A yacht shall sail by using only the wind and water to increase, maintain or decrease her speed’. Maybe ISAF doesn’t consider a kiteboarder to be ‘a yacht’, but if that is the case why are they accepting records from kiteboards as a category at all?
The logical problem for ISAF was how can your sport be under the auspices of the International SAILING Federation, but that same sport not be eligible for Outright SPEED SAILING records ratified by that world body.
Depois do fds passado ter feito uma boa sessão de ondas na Costa Nova em Aveiro, este Sábado fomos até Peniche, pois as previsões de vento eram razoáveis, apesar do frio e da chuva que anunciavam. O vício é mais forte !
Foi uma banhada, o vento estava muito longe dos 15 nós anunciados, salvou-se a tarde com uma surfada na praia de Super tubos, junto ao molhe leste.
Gonzas 