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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.
Womens Division
Junior Division
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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