Sunday 17th July was the first race of the Jersey Paddle Club race series 2022. With temperatures due to reach 34°c during the day, the beach at St Brelades Bay was starting to get busy with swimmers and boats at the start of the race.
There was a good number of entrants across all craft (with a few not attending, most likely due to the heat forecast!) The SUP course was a tough battle with the wind that wasn’t expected to be as strong as it was. There was a kit of side chop & side wind for the duration. For thr experienced racers, with 4 laps of the course, and a beach transition run between each lap, the total distance was approximately 6.5km. For the newer paddlers they completed 1 lap of the same course, which was testing!!
The Ski race was further out of the bay, using the 5 knot marker buoys. They completed a triangular course with some upwind, downwind and sidewind conditions. The total distance of the ski race was just over 8km.
This is the first in 4 races (with your top 3 results counting towards the overall series results.
The results are as follows;
FUN SUP
1) Alex Coleman – 19:40
OPEN SKI / KAYAK
1) Steve Jones – 42:42
2) Malcolm Pitt – 44:11
3) John Searson – 44:19
4) John Bouteloup – 44:25
5) Gary Edwards – 46:09
6) Michael Keen – 49:26
7) Chris Nicolas – 50:31
8) David Priddis (Kayak) – 55:21
9) Jez Keen – 55:47
OPEN SUP MEN / LADIES
1) André Le Geyt – 49:14
2) Tim Tredant – 53:06
3) Steve Walker – 53:50
3) Verity Thomas (Ladies) – 53:50
5) Andrew Pittom – 55:20
6) Stevie Ascroft – 57:31
7) Laird Dawson – 58:58
8) Adrian Lane – 59:28
JUNIOR SUP
1) Jacques Thomas – 05:25
2) Tehya Tredant-Gallichan – 08:45