Fitzroy Beach Reserve
P.O. Box 3114
New Plymouth 4341
CLUB: 06 758 1489
Secretary: 06 751 3291
e-mail: [email protected]
WEB: www.npsurf.co.nz FACEBOOK: new plymouth surf riders
LINEUP Vol. iX. Vii
FEBRUARY 2015
2015 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
Once more Huey smiled on the Club and produced two days of reasonable surf for our 2015 Club Champs. A further bonus was SNZ postponing their grom comp at Whangamata due to lack of surf. We often get complaints that we hold our club champs when there is also a SNZ comp on. Not our problem. We set the dates for this event way back in September and SNZ did not finalise their calendar until December. So often do comps at Whangamata get postponed most of the accommodation providers there will not give refunds which makes the cost of competing almost prohibitive for many. Consequently, with that out of the way, the Juniors were able to take full part and strut their stuff before some serious senior talent including a number of former national champions. With the exception of the Women’s division, every division was entered – great effort on all who entered. A huge thank you to those who volunteered their time to manage the champs and gave up two days of surfing – the Contest Director, Beach Marshal, timekeeper, judges, talliers, cooks and general hands; THANKS.
If you haven’t kept up with our Facebook page then read on, enjoy the action, and find out the winners and grinners.
BACHELOR TIPENE
BEN KING
BRIAN KETTLE
BRODIE ARBUCKLE
BRUCE RICHARDS
WAYNE YEARBURY
CAIN ALDRIDGE
CRAIG WILLIAMSON
DAN FARR
ELI SMITH
HAMISH LOVE
ISAAC KETTLE
JARROD LEWIS
JEREMY GRAINGER
JASON MATTHEWS
JOEL CLEGG
JOSH KETTLE
JARRED HANCOX
KAHANA NGAIA
KAVA MATTHEWS
GRINNERS: STEVE B, BRIAN K, STEVE L.
GRINNERS - MAKE THAT EIGHT
SAM DOWN
JEREMY TAKES ROW
JROD
BYRDS
DAN
TUBES
BACH
JOSH
TOM
CLUB CHAMPS FULL RESULTS:
OPEN - 3 RICCARDO LUCIBELLA, 4 DAN
FARR, 1 JARRED HANCOX, 2 ELI SMITH,
U 14 - 2 SAM DINGLE, 1 TOM BUTLAND,
4 LUCCA LIND, 3 KAVA MATTHEWS.
U 16 - 3 REEF MATTHEWS, 4 SAM DINGLE.
1 JOEL CLEGG, 2 TOM BUTLAND,
U 18 - 4 RICCARDO LUCIBELLA, 2 DAN
FARR, 1 REEF MATTHEWS, 3 ISAAC
KETTLE.
30-39 -3 CAIN ALDRIDGE, 1 JARRED
HANCOX, 2 BACHELOR TIPENE, 4 PIP
NGAIA.
40 -49 - 4 JASON MATTHEWS 1, NEAL
PULLEN, 3 CRAIG WILLIAMSON, 2 PIP
NGAIA.
50 -59 - 1 STEVE (Wave burglar) LAZARUS,
2 BRIAN KETTLE, 3 STEVE BUTLAND.
60-69: 2 ALLEN PIDWELL, 3 BRUCE
RICHARDS, 1 WAYNE YEARBURY.
70+ -ALLEN PIDWELL
JUNIOR GIRLS - 2 STEVIE BROUGHTON.
1 KAHANA NGAIA,
KNEELOS - 2 STEVE CROTON. 1 JARROD
LEWIS,
LONGBOARD -1 SAM BOUND (Absent), 3
HAMISH LOVE, 4 WAYNE YEARBURY, 2
CRAIG WILLIAMSON. (and Izaro).
A TRUE CHAMPION – JROD X 8
THANKS TO OUR ALMOST EVER-
PRESENT PHOTOGRAPHER, DAISY AND
TO SUZI HURLEY FOR THE PHOTOS.
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THE WEATHER A climate outlook released by the National Institute of
Water and Atmosphere (Niwa) this afternoon said temperatures would most likely be in the "above normal" range for all regions of the country until April.
WeatherWatch forecaster Phillip Duncan said the tropics and Southern Ocean appeared to be "firing up ... but we need a break in the highs coming from south of Australia before we can get a wet day". "Our best bet is for another Tasman Sea low later in February - or a sub-tropical low. Neither are in the long range forecasts at this stage."
By the end of next week, windier westerlies could be expected to return with hot weather in the east and slightly cloudier weather in the west, he said. "February looks hot and dry for the areas that are driest and hottest. But that's to be expected in our hottest, driest, month of the year."
The dry conditions continued as sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific Ocean were borderline between neutral and weak El Nino conditions. "However - as was the case over the past few months - the atmospheric circulation in the Pacific is still inconsistent with El Nino," the report said.
International guidance indicates that the probability of El Nino conditions developing over the next three months was about 60 per cent. Over that period, higher pressures than normal were forecast over and to the southeast of the country, and slightly lower than normal pressures were likely to the north of New Zealand.
"This atmospheric pressure pattern is expected to be associated with weak easterly flow anomalies." Sea surface temperatures around New Zealand were forecast to be in the above normal range all around the country. New Zealand had a "slightly elevated chance" of having an ex-tropical system coming within 550km of the country during this tropical cyclone season, with the risk highest between February and April.
Nationally, rainfall would be near normal in the north of the North Island and the north and west of the South Island, while rainfall totals for the season as a whole were equally likely to be in the near-normal or below normal in the east of the South Island.
In the east and west of the North Island, the coming season's rainfall was about equally likely to be near or above normal, Niwa said. Interestingly the rapid drop in sea temperatures at Waitangi weekend were not mirrored in the recorded or projected temperatures by satellite measure or computer model predictions. Maybe the waters close inshore to northern Taranaki just suffered some abnormal fluctuation. Possibly an effect of the large tongue of very cold (17 degrees) water that the SE winds have pushed into the south Taranaki Bight.
SST 1102 15
STOP PRESS!
EXCITING NEWS FOR THE
MASTERS!
WE NOW HAVE TWO MASSIVE SPOT
PRIZES, WHICH WILL BE DRAWN FROM
ALL WHO SURF IN THE EASTER
MASTERS.
NOT ONLY WILL THE HAND-CRAFTED,
WOODEN, LAMINATED SURFBOARD BY
SCOTT WALLACE, ( valued at over
$2,000.00) BE UP FOR GRABS, BUT
ALSO WE HAVE SECURED AN
ACCOMMODATION PACKAGE AT THE
COKES SURFING RESORT IN THE
MALDIVES ( airfares not included)
VALUED AT $2,000.00, SUPPLIED BY
THE PERFECT WAVE TRAVEL.
Yah gotta be in to have chance of
winning one of these great prizes.
Entries are filling rapidly (with the
Whangamata mob entering early to
ensure them dominating the divisions)
so don’t be a rego-night walk-up and
miss out; as entries are definitely
limited to 128.
CAPTION COMPETITION
Enter your caption for the photo below
and win a free beer or wine ( or two) at
the Friday 20th Family Fun Night.
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The photographer’s decision will be
final.