Today was another excellent day of training for competitors before the big winds forecast for tomorrow.Â
We saw Sebastien Salerno from France improve on his best personal time ever with 44.5 knots. New Zealander Gavin Broadbent had an excellent day again with top speeds of 44.3 recorded over 500m average. Rob Douglas from USA had the 3rd top speed of 43.9.
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The first National Speed Record was broken within minutes of the start of the Luderitz Speed Event 2010, on what was expected to be simply a training session in anticipation prior to the big winds forecast for next week.
Kitesurfer Gavin Broadbent smashed the existing New Zealand national record within 13 minutes of the opening of the first day of the 2010 Luderitz Speed Challenge on Friday 8th October at 2nd Lagoon, Luderitz Bay, Namibia. After only 3 runs his official average speed over 500m was recorded at 44.51 knots – the previous record being 40.68 knots.
70 minutes later, also on his 3rd run, Swedish Windsurfer, Anders Bringdal broke  … Details
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Richel Moux is in the habit of bringing gifts with him every time he returns to Molokai, as a way to thank his accommodating hosts.
As the president of Shell Va’a, the four-time defending Molokai Hoe outrigger canoe race champion from Tahiti, Moux has made it a habit not only to thank those who welcome him and his paddlers, but also to leave Hawaii with the most-desired gift by a canoe paddler this time of year: championship hardware.
Shell Va’a will set out to tame the Kaiwi Channel once again as it headlines the 59th annual Molokai Hoe, a race often considered the world championship of long-distance outrigger canoe paddling … Details
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution – On a crisp October morning nine courageous volunteers rose to the challenge of pushing a two tonne lifeboat nine miles through the streets of London to help raise funds for a new lifeboat on the Thames for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
Saturday 9 October 2010 saw the nine man Charles Russell LLP team giving the ‘boat push’ everything they had in order to complete the nine mile course from the RNLI’s Tower Lifeboat Station to Chiswick Lifeboat Station. The team managed to complete the challenge in under three and a half hours, raising a fantastic sum of £7,340 in the process with yet more pledges still being received … Details
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