February 13-14 is the annual WaveChaser double header weekend with races on both Saturday and Sunday. Our doubleheader weekend always offers the most competitive races of the Series. Our Sunday event will be staged from Fort Baker in Sausalito just as it has been in past years. A change for this
year is that the Saturday event will be staged from just up the road at Sea Trek Kayak.
Driving directions to Sea Trek:
http://www.seatrek.com/pages/
Driving directions to Fort Baker: http://tinyurl.com/25sqmo
SATURDAY
9:00 Novice Course 2 miles a quick out and back
10:00 Short course 6 miles to Point Belvedere and back
11:30 Long Course 10 miles around Angle Island
SUNDAY
9:30 Short Course 6 miles to Point Belvedere and back
11:00 Long Course 10 miles out the Golden Gate, up the coast, and back
In general, the novice race will be in flat conditions, the short course races will be in moderate conditions, and the long course races will be in moderate to rough conditions. The Sunday long course (out the Golden Gate and up the coast) will be especially challenging. This course takes paddlers through the edge of the "Potato Patch" off of Point Bonita. Only strong paddlers with rough water experience should enter the Sunday long course.
Lunch will be served and awards will be handed out after each day's races. As has been customary for our doubleheader weekend, we'll have overall awards for the best combined long course times for the two days of races. The overall awards will be given out to the fastest long course male and female surfski, the fastest long course male and female OC1, and the fastest male and female "waterman". The waterman award is for racers who paddle long course surfski one day and long course OC1 one day.
We have raffle prizes to hand out this weekend. The current list of raffle items includes:
Items donated by Huki
Items donated by Ocean Paddle Sports
Gift cards for Subway, Starbucks, Baha Fresh, and iTunes
-Dave Jensen
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
www.ussurfski.com
year is that the Saturday event will be staged from just up the road at Sea Trek Kayak.
Driving directions to Sea Trek:
http://www.seatrek.com/pages/
Driving directions to Fort Baker: http://tinyurl.com/25sqmo
SATURDAY
9:00 Novice Course 2 miles a quick out and back
10:00 Short course 6 miles to Point Belvedere and back
11:30 Long Course 10 miles around Angle Island
SUNDAY
9:30 Short Course 6 miles to Point Belvedere and back
11:00 Long Course 10 miles out the Golden Gate, up the coast, and back
In general, the novice race will be in flat conditions, the short course races will be in moderate conditions, and the long course races will be in moderate to rough conditions. The Sunday long course (out the Golden Gate and up the coast) will be especially challenging. This course takes paddlers through the edge of the "Potato Patch" off of Point Bonita. Only strong paddlers with rough water experience should enter the Sunday long course.
Lunch will be served and awards will be handed out after each day's races. As has been customary for our doubleheader weekend, we'll have overall awards for the best combined long course times for the two days of races. The overall awards will be given out to the fastest long course male and female surfski, the fastest long course male and female OC1, and the fastest male and female "waterman". The waterman award is for racers who paddle long course surfski one day and long course OC1 one day.
We have raffle prizes to hand out this weekend. The current list of raffle items includes:
Items donated by Huki
Items donated by Ocean Paddle Sports
Gift cards for Subway, Starbucks, Baha Fresh, and iTunes
-Dave Jensen
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
www.ussurfski.com
