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Well, by now you've hopefully noticed the look of my website has changed.  But this is just the beginning of some exciting new things coming up!! Stay tuned and feel free to contact me with any feedback!

Jodi

 p.s. prices have recently changed too - check out new price page and dont forget the products are a great gift idea - simply leave the webpage open and place a post it note saying "Gee I love this...stubby holder! Santa?"  I am sure this hint will be picked up by your partner and\or kids

Results and recap from WVS crew "The second round of the 11/12 VWS series was held at Point Impossible on Sunday 16/10.

A great turn out of wavesailors were greeted with Westerly winds around 20-25knots with some fun sized 2ft waves which made for some great wave riding and jumping.

The sun was out and the wind was up early which saw over 30 guys on the water having a free-sail before the expression sessions got under way.

I know we keep saying this, but the level of sailing as increased so much recently! It's great to see for the sport in Victoria.

Intermediates got out on the water first and we saw some great waveriding from the local 'Glenns' with CORE Boardsports riders Glenn Kewish & Glenn Daniels both getting their fair share of waves. Some great wave riding from Tom Champion, David Spragie & Damien Callaman while late starter Alex Knott made the most of the conditions. Brother's Ben & Andy Donegan got amongst it, Andy with a great jump and Ben scoring the wave of the heat, which gave him enough points to advance through to the final and take the heat win.

The opens hit the water, split into two expression sessions. Some awesome wave riding from RPS's Andy Ackland throwing heaps of spray with some powerful top turns.

Tao Langham (the ZU) landed some of the cleanest backloops of the day to make sure he advanced through to the finals.

Dan Gardner, more well known as 'the guy with the cow head on his sail' shredded in the expression session to get through to the finals. While the wind was up Dan was throwing some huge forward loops, and some solid Goiter attempts.

Jono Boullier popping forward loops everywhere while some great waves and taka attempts from CORE board sport's Bryce Miller were great to watch.

The ZU board sports young gun Zac Douglas looked at home on his new Severne kit and scored plenty of waves, but not enough to get through to the finals against some tough competition.

Local shredder Tom White (the ZU) managed to find all the best waves of the heats and got some long rides with heaps of powerful turns to secure his place in the finals. RPS, Fanatic & North sailors James Toth & Joel Ryan scored some solid wave rides and landed some good forward & back loops to get through to the finals while SHQ'S JP/NP rider Al Mcleod sailed his way into the final spot in the final heats.

In the Intermediate final Glenn Kewish showed the way making the most of the waves and getting the longest rides of the heat to take the overall win, a late wave from Andy Donegan put him up into 2nd place, in only his second season windsurfing! Glenn Daniels just didn't quite get enough waves to knock Kewish off and finished in Third while Ben Donegan finished fourth after being taken out on the biggest wave of the heat, which could have been a high point scorer for him!

In the finals the wind went more offshore and got quite gusty which made it tough getting off the beach, but really nice and clean on the wave. In the final Tom White was super consistent and took the win from Joel Ryan second, James Toth third & Tao Langham fourth."  WVS Crew

Photos to come!!

Open division Round 2:

1st Tom White

2nd Joel Ryan

3rd James Toth

4th Tao Langham

=8th Andy Ackland

=8th Dan Gardner

=8th Alastair McLeod

=8th Simon Hanson

=14th Phil Vawdrey

=14th Jono Boullier

=14th Bryce Miller

=14th Michael Cornish

=14th Zac Douglas

=14th Evan Hawkey

Intermediate division Round 2:

1ST Glenn Kewish

2nd Andy Donegan

3rd Glenn Daniels

4th Ben Donegan

=8th Tom Champion

=8th David Spragie

=8th Damien Callaman

=8th Alex Knott

For championship standings please see http://www.vicwavesailing.org

Ok, so here are results and recap from the WVS crew....

Round 1 - "Round one of the Victorian Wave series got off to a flying start at Right Point, Cat bay on Sat 10/09/11

The first round called on for the 2011/12 season, only one week into the season was a great success with SW wind ranging from 15-25 knots and head high swell and a good turn out of around 20 competitors all keen to get out in the waves.

An early start to beat the low tide proved a good call with the swell being the best early on. 9am and sailors were already on the water with 20 knots and some nice sets coming through.

After briefing the Open class sailors hit the water in the first expression session. Some great waves early on secured Andrew 'Hock' Hocking's place in the semi final, Alastair McLeod landed some nice aerials which put him into the final 5, Phil Vaudrey landed some great forward loops and milked some waves right around the corner to make it through to the next round, as did Joel Ryan, while James Toth just piped Scotty Gibbins for the final place in the semi final.

Some solid wave rides from Zac Douglas in the heat, but just not enough to get him the points he needed to advance to the next round, while Dan Gardner struggled a bit being underpowered he did make the most out of the waves he scored. Special mention to Jon Bouillir who was very unlucky to not make the finals, Jon rode some nice waves early in the heat and in the warm up, but half way through the first expression session Jon helped tow in a free sailor who had broken a mast. Bad luck Jon, but some good Karma coming your way for sure!

Next out was the intermediate division. The sun came out and the wind filled in for the intermediate expression session. Darren Ross had the place sorted out, picking off a few of the set waves early on in the heat but just didn't get the long rides like eventual winner Tom Rossoman did. Tom managed to take the honors in the Intermediate class over Darren in second and the 'new guy' Andy Donegan took out third place with one of the waves of the heat, and a nice jump. Pretty impressive for someone who only started windsurfing last summer! Fourth place went to Sam Gordan who just didn't seem to get lucky with his waves, with Ben Donegan rounding out the field.

Semi finalists went out just as the wind started to swing slightly cross onshore which made wave riding tougher but allowed for some nice forward loops from Hock, Phil and Joel. With the top three going through to the final for the day it was Joel, Al & Hock who went through with Phil finishing the day in fourth and James finishing fifth.

As the final started the wind got lighter and the swell lost its clean form it had in the morning as the tide started getting dropping. Hock managed to milk lots of turns out of a few waves, while Al went for a few big smacks and aerials. Jumps were hard in the gusty wind but Joel managed a nice forward but struggled to find the good waves. A very close decision for the judges ending with Al taking the win by just one point, from Hock who beat Joel by half a point for second place.

It's great to get a result so early in the season, and good to see a lot of enthusiasm from people to get out in the waves! " WVS Crew

Photos

My favs.....

Catch up time

Victorian wavesailing titles. So far 2 rounds have been held - 1 at Cat Bay, Phillip Island and 2nd at Pt Impossible, Torquay. Check the next blog entry for results and pics.

2011 Sandy Point speed fortnight was the first in 4 years where the wind gods did dissapoint, only a couple of days action which I unfortunately missed.  Those who are keen for some Sandy Point action, whether wave or flat water - the SHQ Cup weekend is coming up.  On at the same time is the Sandy Point wind festival which will bring a whole lot of activities and fun.  Round 3 of the Vic Wavesailing titles will be on too (weather permitting :))

I took a month off and headed to Vietnam, amazing place and really cheap.  Discovered a new windsurf\kite\sup school in mid Vietnam in a place called Hoi An.  Bit unpredictable with wind but if you are tying it into a holiday - great!   At least bigger beach than Mui Ne. Check out their website http://www.vietnam-kiteboarding.com. For pics taken in Vietnam go to my Facebook page Jodi Stevenson Photography.

Went to Inverloch on the weekend just gone, for ther first Inverloch Speed Invitational wekend.  Everything was in order - the wind was in the right direction, sand bar and tides cooperating. 20 odd people turned up, with Craig "Spotty" Spottiswood and former world distance champion Craig Hollins in the mix -competition was going to be tough.  Just one thing was missing 5+ knots

Despite this fact people bravely rigged up and the competition was hot on the water with just 3 knots separating the field, in fact 0.29 kts was the difference between first and third!!!

Results

1st John Rohrsheim (7.80 knots 5 x 10 average, Gear: 8.5 Koncept and Starboard SUP)

2nd Dan Poynton (7.64 knots 5 x 10 average, Gear Windsurfer One Design)

3rd Craig Spottiswood (7.51 knots 5 x 10 average, Gear 8.5 Koncept and Starboard SUP)

Nearest the Pin winner

Brett Denning: Nominated speed 5.5kts, recorded speed 5.31 kts. Difference: 0.19kts.

My favourite pics of the day...

More pics including the presentations...http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11668834

Ok, so I knew I had been a bit remiss this year on blogging, I did not realise it had been 6 months!  Pretty sure that means by now no one will be reading this, but nonetheless I am here and typing so will keep going..........

It has been an interesting year... 

 It started with Sorrento hosting the One Design Nationals which was really fun, just love the retro colour sails, makes for some great pics.  http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=10851612

SHQ ran their annual SUP Cruise to Cerberus which attracted some big names this year and lots of media coverage - had my pics published in SupWorld!   Pics http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11048362

 Inverloch Windsurfing club continue to grow in numbers and fantastic events, most recently the Longboard day which was hilarious to say the least with plenty of fun challenges for the whole family.  Check out pics here  http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11253780.

Then I was off on a road trip to Gerroa, NSW for the National Wavesailing titles which is my favourite gig of the year.  Such a fantastic chilled out surf spot and could quite happily live there.  We were not dissapointed with 5 out of 7 days sailing and I had the privelege to watch some of Australia's best men and women (and kids) rip it up.  Too many big names to mention but I will congratulate Jaegar Stone who took ot the Title in Open division.  Such an amazing sailor! Check out the action http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11102185.  Also you can get your commerorative stubby holder with Jaegar on it for only $28.00 - contact me if your interested.

Also been spending lots of time at Sandy Point esp down at "The Dunes"  behind the inlet - one of my favs.  Also just had a session at Cat Bay, PHillip Island which was pretty good, big swell but gusty wind.  Check out gallery for local session pics http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/

Ok, promise to be more vigilant with the blogging. In the meantime dont forget you can contact me next time your heading out, happy to come wherever and take pics 

For the wave comp session at Warratah beach .  PErfect cross off to start with then swung west which made it bit onshore.  Nonetheless great comp and action.  Conerats to Hock beating Joel and Andrew (?).  Also congrats to Al for hisawesome forwards.

Flat water action at the Inlet.  Miussed bulk of the action but still a lot a fun at top end of inlet.

Late arvo wave session at The Gap.  One of my fav locations to photograph, was a great session.

Ok, so have reviewed my prices and introduced some hot products - here is the result...........taaa daaa

Digital Files

1 digital file - $10.00 

2 digital files $15.00 

3 digital files $20.00

4 digital files $25.00

5 digital files $30.00

6+ digital files (on DVD) $40.00

Professionally edited and printed photo and posters (includes postage):

A4 photo - $22.00

A3 photo - $38.00

A3 poster - $18.00

Products:

Stubby Holder - $35.00

Mouse Mat - $35.00

Chef Apron (Black or White) - $50.00

iPhone and mobile skins - $50.00

Laptop skin - $60.00

Great day at Inverloch as always.  Presentations for oldest equipment on the water (despite tough competition, won by Belinda and Glen) and the Brass Monkey award which had something to do with who went out in coldest weather during winter aka the craziest\most keen\most stupid.........

Posted some sample pics..... http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=10251249

Highly recommend this group and location for learning to windsurf and having a great time with friends, check out their website for more info and make sure you read the Gritty Truth, a real crack up!  http://www.driftmedia.com.au/iwc/Welcome.html

"On Saturday, Round 1 of the VicWavesailng Series kicked off at Point Impossible. It was an arctic blast with a super cold west/south westerly and a nice 3 to 4 foot swell. They challenging conditions with a strong side sweep and the odd rogue monster set rolling through. Given the bitterly cold conditions for this time of year and rain deluge the night before, we got a good turn out with 8 people competing and around 20 people free sailing in total.

The day got underway with an hour long freesailing session followed by a 30 minute expression session. The four top sailors from the expression session then proceeded to battle it out in a 15 minute final which was judged on the best 3 waves and 1 jump. Evan, James, Alastair, Hudson and Hoc (who retired with a migraine) fought it out in a very impressive final which saw James winning with two massive pushloops (and he only needed to do one!) and solid long waverides down to the river mouth " - thanks duncan for the content

More info on website http://www.vicwavesailing.org/

Photos uploaded   http://www.whitecapsphotography.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=10251149