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KA North American Speed
Challenge
2007 Results
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2006 Results
The final results are
in from the 2006 KA Sail North American speed challenge.
Sailors from all over
the US competed on their own home waters, and then analyzed and
uploaded their data for the contest.
The overall winner is
'Roo', also known as Kean Rogers from the Gorge with a top average
speed of 33.8 knots. Roo has won a Koncept 5.0 for next year speed
blasting. Roo also had the highest average on the West Coast as
well.
Second place went to Gary
Hobbs of Texas with a top average speed of 32.06 knots. Gary has
won a KA sail ambassadorship for being the fastest speed in the
Midwest.
The top speed on the East
Coast went to Marshall Novis. Marshall also wins the Daily Distance
contest with a 80 mile day. This was the session that Marshall uploaded,
but I was also there one day when Marshall went over 105 mi. Marshall
wins a PhotoGlow desktop darling with a print of his choice.
The top female average
was Isabelle Fortier with a 25.54 knot average. Isabelle wins a
KA aluminum boom.
Julian Rogers, Kean’s
10 year old son (little roo) was a brave participant and wins the
junior division and wins a small boom. Hope your Dad knows it is
yours!
Thanks to Ed Sinofsky
and GPS-speedsurfing.com
for administering the contest.
We are happy to announce
that KA Sail will again sponsor the Speed Challenge again in 2007!
So get your gear in shape
over the winter, buy a few Koncepts, and we hope to hear from you
(by upload) next spring.
- 1st place - Roo (Kean Rogers) 33.8 wins a Koncept 5.0 (top West
Coast speed)
- 2rd place - Gary Hobbs 32.06 (top Midwest speed)
- 3nd place - Bob Conace 31.58
- 4th place - Chris Lock 29.48
- 5th place - Marshall Novis 29.38 (top East Coast speed)
- 6th place - Jon Robbins 29.14
- 7th place - Jeff Adamski 29.04
- 8th place - Ed Sinofsky 28.26
- 9th place - Isabelle Fortier 25.54 (top female speed)
- 10th place - Mark Powell 23.40
Womens Division
- Isabelle Fortier - wins a boom
Junior Division
- Julian Rogers - wins a boom
The first KA Speed Challenge
has been up and running in North America since April.
GPS speed sailing is
in it's infancy in the USA but the event has attracted a growing
following from sailors all over the country.
Ed Sinofsky, KA Ambassador
from Cape Cod near Boston has been running the contest and doing
a fantastic job. The Challenge is supported by Windsurfing Hawaii
and the team at www.gps-speedsurfing.com
monthly winners qualify for great prizes courtesy of KA or Windsurfing
Hawaii.
The monthly winners so
far are:
April
The winner in April was
Bob Conace of Bird Island Basin, Texas. He generated the track on
the first day of the KA competition as part of the WorldWinds speed
challenge. Bob is 64 years old, and a great sailor. He was featured
last year in an article in Windsurfing Magazine. His 10 second average
is 31.24 knots, and is the top average speed so far.
May
The winner in May was
Jeff Adamski from Worthington, Minnesota. Jeff did his runs as part
of the Midwest Speed Challenge in Worthington, on a demo Koncept
5.8. His average 10 second time is 29.14 knots. May's winner would
have been Chris Lock, but after using the Koncept, and apparently
enjoying it, Chris became a KA Ambassador, which disqualifies Chris
from winning prizes. Good news is that Chris is currently the leader
of the Midwest Speed Challenge with an average of 29.48 knots.
June
Gary Hobbs of Galveston
Bay, Texas took top honours in June. Taking it on in big breeze
he had a 10 second average of 29.8 knots.
July
July's winner was Marshall
Novis, sailing at Hyannis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Marshall ’s
speed was unleashed after changing his Retros for Koncepts and a
custom C3 X1 raked speed/weed fin. His average 10 second speed is
29.38 Kts.
August
August’s winner
was again Gary Hobbs from South Texas sailing at Bird Island Basin.
His average speed was 32.07 knots.
September
September’s leader,
so far, is Kean Rogers, AKA Roo, an ex-Aussie that is one of the
most experienced speedsailors in the US. Roo did his runs in the
Gorge, and got an average of 32.12 knots at beautiful Stevenson,
Washington state.
The KA Speed Challenge
is open to all amateur sailors using any equipment at any location
in the USA and runs through to the October.
Contact ed
at photoglow.com for more information of check out the time
on gps-speedsurfing.com.
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