Tassie Speed Seekers (TAS, Australia) - 2009-11-29
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Steve200
32.265(D)
30.783(D)
24.385(D)
20.062(D)
28.6(D)
170.27(D)
Richard CS
29.9(T)
27.2(T)
0(T)
11.4(T)
19(T)
13.6(T)
Izaak Perkins
34.508(X)
31.086(X)
12.122(X)
22.142(X)
23.08(X)
50.86(X)
Anthony Perkins
33.337(D)
31.633(D)
14.106(D)
20.242(T)
27.778(D)
57.05(D)
Jordan Murray
32.292(D)
29.524(D)
12.501(D)
19.989(D)
21.853(D)
54.11(D)
Dave Morehead
32.56(D)
31.46(D)
25.21(D)
20.25(D)
29.79(D)
511.598 [PB](D)
Jason
34.222(X)
30.645(X)
15.01(X)
19.053(X)
25.232(X)
46.91(X)
Al Bach
Bear
Stewart McKay
James Brient
Gordo
Johno
Jack
Ray Thorne
Tom
Fubbs
Paul Tenteye
Geoff Broomby
Jez
Easty
Anthony Houston
Kaleb Smith
Kazza
Marlon
Russell Dowd
Jodi
Fos
Sim
Azza
Ben Wilson
Waynos
Klaas Hartmann
geared4knots
Will
Liana Perkins
Corkers
veitz
Shorty
Matt Webster
Jules
Johnny
Al
cookie
Parky
Barry
Hughie
Sampson
Breno
Fletcher
Todd Sushames
Jimmy
TGale
Dave Jack
Old Man Steve
Jock C
JimoKG
brad peters
DJ
Angus C
James Park
Kelso Pete
Chol
Latte
Parky jnr
NIGE
WickedP
mort67
VT
Tom Males
Average34.3731.5524.8021.2029.20340.93
Steve200 (35507km):
5234 days ago
3 categories

Left Sandy Bay beach at 7am, Dave was out at 5am. Tacked up wind for 2.5 hours through the crapiest roughest chop. Finally caught up with Dave off Opossom Bay. I was feeling knackered and told Dave that was as far as I could go. Dave frowned at me and told me to get my arse up wind into the flatter stuff so we could do a good 1Hr. I left Dave at 12pm and he had already sailed 200km and is planning on 400plus. Isonic 86SL with Select Casper 31cm fin and 5.9 Code Red.



Richard CS (746km):
5234 days ago

Sailing at Swan point up the Tamar River Was quit windy and a bit choppy/gusty which made it difficult.

I was in the handicap division as was using a wave sail (5M combat wave)!!

 



Izaak Perkins (22426km):
5233 days ago

sailed in the Tamar in the morning with a few guys and got my fastest 2sec/5x10 there,then came back home to find another crew of guys out so headed back out again to get the rest of my numbers.Richard we saw you sailing but we decided to stay up the river where it was flatter a tad....

well done on the brilliant pb's Steve cant wait too see Dave's when ever he comes inLaughing

 

session 1

CA SP44, KA sym 23cm, north warp 5.0

sesson 2

CA SP44, KA sym 23cm, north ram 5.8



Anthony Perkins (21811km):
5233 days ago
3 categories

not a great day for me today just couldn't get it all going,well done Steve thats a cup winning effort.



Jordan Murray (9123km):
5233 days ago

Decent sail out in front of home for me. Really hard work at times belting through the chop but the sonic just ate it all upSmile Real Tired Now!

 

sonic90, 5.6 SSR



Dave Morehead (28997km):
5233 days ago
3 categories

Long day.  On the water at 5:20am and off the water at 7:45pm with two short stops.  Quite windy all day (20+ knots).  Sailed Starboard 2010 iSonic 94, Severne Code Red 6.5 and C3 Venom 36cm for most of the day (first 380 km).  Then changed to the iSonic 122 to make life a little easier, which it did!! 

Really happy with the 1 hr PB and feeling the effects of the distance right now!!  I got to 436 km and decided to keep going to make the 500 mark. 

Well done Steve for your 1 hr and distance PBs!!



Jason (7755km):
5232 days ago
3 categories

Well done team we have finally won a cup. Great effort on your part Dave, 500km is a hell of a long way, what's next???



Comments
Firiebob


WA
Australia
5234 days ago

Awesome Hr Steve Cool Looking forward to Dave's post Smile

Izaak Perkins


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

i hope dave gets the 500km sounds like he might do Laughing 

Richard CS


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Hi Izaak, you got some good speed, where about did you launch from?

Izaak Perkins


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

gravelly beach, looked like you were flying when we came down for a look. 

James Brient


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

ooooooh one more day

Johno


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Steve thats fantastic cant wait for Dave to post but its still not dark yet he may be still out there.Cool

I left  the shack at Bicheno at 6.45am drove up to Ansons Bay no wind so left at 9.00 went to St Helens gusty raining and not really enough so went back down to Swanick absolutley bucketing down rain seemed to be killing the wind and now just got home to Ulverstone 2 tanks of juice and no sail but the team effort for the month makes it all worthwhile well done guys, hope we can hold onto #1 spot.

 

Vando


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

nice seesion guys its going to be a close finishWink

Chris Adamson


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

ARE YOU FOR REAL?????????????????????????

 

O         M          G

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Jordan Murray


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Great Steve and Dave those are massive efforts(you're a freak DaveWink)!!

Vando


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

what can i say well done guys big effort dave, steve massive distance

Hardie


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

IF you guyz win the Spring Cup and cant see anything happening that would change that, you deserve it big time!!!!!!!

Anthony Perkins


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

once again dave well done, i owe you a beer mate.

Shelby


VIC
Australia
5233 days ago

That is massiveSurprised     

Huge effort Dave!

Sausage


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

Anyone from MBM keen to try and beat 511km tomorrow Wink 

Dave, That record will stand for some time I believe.  Increadible to think someone can actually sail that far in one daylight session.  Hope the cramps don't get too severe.

Dave M


SA
Australia
5233 days ago

Amazing effort and must be enough (and a bit extra) to take the cup

                 Tongue outTongue out

dr cam


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

SPEECHLESS DAVE-how long have you had masochistic personality disorder!!??

Brilliant hr & Mind boggling klms !!

WELL DONE !!!

Bear


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Brilliant effort Dave in conditions you wouldn't send a brown dog out in, 13 deg. and pissing with rain

Choco


SA
Australia
5233 days ago

wow

 

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

awwww maaaate thats just NUTS. Well done! How did you stay awake?

Vando


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

Snags you first mateTongue out

25


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

Extreme respect Dave - well done fantastic effort.

Top effort Tassie Speed Sniffers, I think its yours!

JC


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

insane - that has to be some sort of record right ??

Johno


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

What can we say Dave you are a mileage machine You want that cup baaaaaad

paddymac


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

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Amazing Dave, big respect.

Firiebob


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

Great PB's there guys Cool

500+ K's Dave, bloody hard to get my old head around that one, wow Tongue out 12c and raining also is nuts SurprisedYell

Sammy the snail


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

Dave, as we say somewhere in EUR "OH LA LA"!! Cool thats going to be a hard to kick this one Wink

Warrior


North
Croatia
5233 days ago

@MOREHEAD, I can't believe it ? What energy you have ???

500+km in one day, o my god, TOTAL RESPECT, MASTER RESPECT

thinking about selling my equipment when i see post like that...hehehehe

Izaak Perkins


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

well done Dave we truly have to win the cup now, dad said that the distance is now having it effects, hope you come up ok.

Steve200


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

Big congrats Dave, you said you were going to do it and you did. Also great 1Hr, well done. Also the fact you did a lot of it in horrible chop and you sailed 20km upwind through all that crappy stuff.

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Thanks guys, it was pretty awful conditions, raining most of the time, completely overcast all of the time and cold, but at least there was wind.  Below is a chart of the wind while I was out (taken from station near where I was sailing), my tracks on GE and my 1 hr in RealSpeed.  

Amazing what this GPS Challenge drives us to do ...

 

 

Mr Love


VIC
Australia
5233 days ago

What the!!!!! Wow Dave that is massive. You should have sailed to Melbourne and said hello while you were at itWink

 

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Magnus


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

Amazing distance Dave!

the new guy


NSW
Australia
5233 days ago

Heh, that's crazy. Love it!

How long were the runs?

Astrid


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

Wow Dave, had to look twice, thought it was a typo, absolutely unreal.You must be so fit.

Elmo


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

Congrats Steve on your PB's.CoolCoolCool

Absolutely gobsmacked by DavesCoolCoolCool Supect the men with the straight jackets may be coming a visitingSurprised awesome days workCool

 

Herby


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

Incredibly AWESOME !!!!!

Ado


VIC
Australia
5233 days ago

Superhuman effort Dave. You deserve the cup all to yourself! Cool We dream here in Victoria - there's just no wind.

nebbian


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

All numbers for Dave's track verified OK.  That is one humungous effort, and I've never heard of anyone going that far in a day...

Wow Surprised

Snides


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

wow! top effort Dave well done!

obi one tobi


WA
Australia
5233 days ago

LEGEND!

b14


East
Japan
5233 days ago

Wow    スゴイ

Ken Anning


QLD
Australia
5233 days ago

AWESOME     SurprisedSurprisedSurprisedSurprised

Red


VIC
Australia
5233 days ago

Struth, I can still remember the pain I went through to do 100, I can't imagine the pain x 5!!!!

Izaak Perkins


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

just remembered that you were first to 300km now skiped the 400km and now first to 500km !!! what next??

Kimba


SA
Australia
5233 days ago

Speechless... Awesome distance there Dave! You will always be the first to 500!

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Thanks Kimba, and yes Kato was the first to 300 (which was also a huge effort and pushing the boundaries back in 2007)!!

ODIN


South
Croatia
5233 days ago

well done guys thats a great effort and well fought back...

James Brient


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

Only you dave!!!!!!!, Amazing effort. Your a machine.Laughing

kato


VIC
Australia
5233 days ago

Well done Dave, ya beat me to it Laughing The cups all yours. Glad the new world record has stayed in Aus and you did it in 14.5hrs .Amazing. Now whats next Wink

Tom


TAS
Australia
5233 days ago

WELL DONE DAVE YOU HAVE GONE THE DISTANCE TOP EFFORT. GOOD LUCK BETTING THAT PB....

Chris Dimond


SA
Australia
5233 days ago

A great session there to the whole team, but Dave you do stand out as the MAN!

That is an amazing effort indeed. You have my full respect. How the hell did you do it? When you are back to 'normal' it would be great to hear about it in detail - the physical pain, the mental pain and how you managed to beat both of them. Did you cramp/vomit/black out/have outer body experiences??? Food sponsors / drink sponsors?

I have a mini-me in my head (wearing a super hero costume) that one day plans to get on the water very early and see what I can do distance wise, but when I see this, I think "who am I kidding"?

Full respect - an incredible effort. Enjoy the moment and the recovery.

(on you Nebbs for checking the data Wink)

Scope


Sth Is
New Zealand
5232 days ago

Incredible effort, well done Dave.

Terry A


Sth Is
New Zealand
5232 days ago

Well done Dave  huge effort!!!!!!!!!!

By the way  Are you near Hobart ? I will be there Sunday the 13th. and would love to check out your sailing spots.

Benny


WA
Australia
5232 days ago

jet and I thought it was a typo as well. Incredible effort is an understatement. WOW!

lao shi


WA
Australia
5232 days ago

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

Makes me hurt just thinking about it!

Awesome performance, Dave.

I am sure that Claude will be plotting as I type!

Well done to you and Steve on top hours too. Hope I don't jinx it but congrats on the Spring Cup. Epic battle!

craiggoo


Nth Is
New Zealand
5232 days ago

This could be the new standard for the WSSRC.... forget the 500 m... it's now 500 km!   That'll get rid of the riff-raff... you're in a class of your own!

Non


East
Japan
5232 days ago

500km!!

wooow  great!

 

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5232 days ago

Hey Chris, it wasn't too bad actually.  The story goes like this ...

Rigged in the dark, with the wind blowing in the trees not really knowing what the water state was like.  As I was heading out (at 5:20AM) I could see it was pretty rough.  Very powered up with the 6.5 straight away and uncomfortable sailing conditions with chop on top of a southerly swell.  Could only point upwind as too messy to reach at speed, let alone go off the wind.  Decided pretty quickly that the only thing to do was to head up to South Arm and get out of the swell.  Took almost 2 hrs.  Going reasonably quick, but taking it easy and trying not to get jarred too much.  Much nicer once in behind the lee of South Arm and able to pick up a bit more speed.  Kept going upwind for almost another hour until I made it right up into the top of the bay.  Much flatter here!!  After nearly three hours, turned off the wind and did my 1 hr PB.  Thought it best to get this in as soon as possible!!  As I gybed out of the last turn 40 seconds after the completing the 1 hr, sailed straight over to Steve who had just emerged out of the grey drizzle.  It was now around 10 AM.  We then both sailed back up wind to the top of the bay.  Steve didn't have too much time so did his one hour and headed back to Sandy Bay (still a mamoth effort with PB distance and 1hr).  I followed him for my second off the wind 1 hr and then headed back upwind again.  This time I stayed up in the top of the bay and clocked up some easy miles (flatter water).  It was around 2PM now and all was going well.  Quite a way from home, no one else out and still miserable weather.  The wind started to faulter a bit so I decided to head back to Sandy Bay and take my chances back in the swell and chop of the River (or potentially be stranded miles from anywhere in a dying wind on a sinky board).  Took over an hour to get back to Sandy Bay.  Wind had dropped out a bit for a while making it difficult to get on the plane at one stage after always being fully powered up until then.  Wind came back in though, allowing me to get back to Sandy Bay.  Time was now 4:30PM and I had done 380 km's.  Had only had a bowl of cereal that morning, but had plenty of chocolate and energy bars in the car, so scoffed three Boost bars and had half a bottle of Gatorade.  Didn't stop for long and went back down to the gear on the beach.  Still very windy and rough.  decided at that stage to swap to the 122 to make life a little easier and in case the wind dropped out at all.  Really didn't want to get stuck anywhere.  Not a single other boat on the Derwent, yet normally it is packed with water craft - highlights how rough and wet and miserable the weather was - but it was windy and that's all that mattered!!  Despite the 94L iSonic being a dream to sail, the 122 with a 40 cm Venom felt great from the moment I stepped on it.  It allowed a lot more control in the confused waters.  Basically there were three sections of water as I sailed across the river.  The first section was not too bad and last about 2/5th of the way over, then there was this horrible area in the middle that was quite confused and then there was another 2/5th that had the chop running more broad to the wind one way than the other, making going over OK, but coming back meant punching into steep chop.  Almost every set of swell/waves needed the decision, point up and slow down and try not to get airborne or bear away and get to the end of the line until you could straighten up again.  This is where the 122 came into it's own!!  I think the different sections were to do with fresh water running out on the first 'nice' 2/5th, the middle bit was just churning chop where you had to go slower and the last bit was as though there was a current running agains the swell, making the waves stand up higher than they should (like an outgoing tide). 

I had calculated that I needed to do 6 runs over to the other side to beat Claude's 423 km (sorry Claude) and when I came ashore after doing 6 runs over and back I had 436 km's.  I now knew I was averaging 9 km per run and that 7 more should see me at 500 km.  So I actually counted down each run over and back and then when I finished I did one more run over and back just to make sure.  Came ashore and had 509 km's on the dial.  Physically, I could have done more runs over and back, but felt happy to have passed 500 and to have made it back safe.  It was also getting pretty dark, with an overcast day and being 7:45PM.

The time actually went pretty quick and was never really dull.  Always thinking about where to next and going upwind and down wind a lot of the time kept it fun.  Tried to never over exerted myself, pulled off slow careful gybes and always hooked into the harness before sheeting in the sail and then just let the wind take me (rather than a power gybe).  Didn't cramp up at all (arms or legs) and still haven't.  Felt tired last night and still a bit sore today, but no blisters on the hands and not feeling too bad after the days sailing.  Worked all day today and then had to go out to a work function this evening, so only just back now at 11PM!! 

Not too keen to do it again, but should the need arise ...

Great to hear all the positive comments.  Amazing there are still so many challenges out there to be had in this sport.

Scope


Sth Is
New Zealand
5232 days ago

Great story Dave,

Chris Dimond


SA
Australia
5232 days ago

Dave that is a great description of your day's sailing. Thank you. It's incredible that you could do it in what sound like relatively demanding conditions (rain, chop, swell etc). It's good that you had the space to sail 'somewhere' and have extensive upwind and downwind legs. I imagine that 500+km back and forth in the same space of water would become mentally challenging fairly quickly.

The iSonic / C3 Venom combos are fantastic and certainly would have made this an enjoyable day's sailing.

Thank you for the detailed review - it helps me to plan for my own personal attempt (god knows when??). I'm sure this effort of yours will stand for a while.

Well done again mate.

Hardie


WA
Australia
5232 days ago

BrilliaNT Story Dave

You guyz have deserved the Spring Cup, Contact me with mailing details and I will get CUP sorted!!!!!!!!

Mike Sinclair


Sth Is
New Zealand
5232 days ago
1 day ago

What the!!!!! Wow Dave that is massive. You should have sailed to Melbourne and said hello while you were at itWink

 

I've got an even better idea.....if you head out the river mouth and keep going straight you'll end up over here in NZ,

 that way you should get 1200 -1500kms,...... should be easy now you're all trained up!

The One Eyed Cantabrians would even come out at Hokitika to meet you.

Great session............ you must be nuts !

evets


WA
Australia
5231 days ago

That is a fantastic distance and hour too Dave, I am in aweCool ( and a bit inspired to try to improve my distance pbLaughing). The fact you did the distance in the cold and rain and mostly on your own makes it all the more amazing.

Looks like 19 gybes in the hour, to get 25+ like that is tremendous. I wonder what you could do given longer runs!

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5231 days ago

Hey Terry, drop us a PM on seabreeze.com.au (AUS02) and I can let you know where we sail in and around Hobart.  Are you bringing gear with you?

Michael, the runs were around 4.5 km near the top of the GE screenshot.  The ones in the southern bay were less than this. 

Terry A


Sth Is
New Zealand
5231 days ago

Hi Dave,    Wont have gear with me.  I will be on a cruise ship (working ) and will have The day off in Hobart,

PH  64  21  684251

Nelson d Foiler


WA
Australia
5231 days ago

Massive effort Dave!

You made it sound so easy but we all know it's far from easy.

I thought I had a big day doing 84km in the oceanFrown

Spotty


VIC
Australia
5228 days ago

Superb job Dave!! Aussies smashing it again this year!

b14


East
Japan
5228 days ago

Dave !!  Thank you for a great story.

Warrior


North
Croatia
5227 days ago

Congrat from WKC, all 6 Croatian teams

and here is news 4 U http://windsurfing-koprivnica.net/comment.php?comment.news.2713

cheerz my bro

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5227 days ago

Thanks Warrior, great site you have there and YES, I do like the emotes you have, VERY cool!!!  The GPSTC is a great way to get so many sailors in different locations communicating and out on the water having fun and improving their skills.  Cheers, Dave.

Warrior


North
Croatia
5226 days ago

Yeah, and also you were registered there and I already activate your login. So you can log now and put comments under news, use our chatbox and all cool emotes of mine :)