CORONATION BEACH
Running Beach Starts – Slalom out & back through waves – Only multi-fin boards allowed – Talented locals and international participants…..Yes it’s the World Wave Rally Championship!
Really great event format, stunning conditions with crowd pleasing close inner gybe mark. Full on racing on 4.7-5.7 Wave gear – sometimes massive air on the way out. Plus you might get someone like Jaeger Stone doing back loops in your heat!
Photos: Kurosh Kiani & Nicholas Hess
Really well done to all the winners, great to sail and race with you all.
Coronation beach
Lagoon and waves
WINDSURFING RACING
Running Beach Starts
WORLD RALLY STYLE
RUNNING BEACH STARTS
Sprinting for you kit and launching into the water always make it a bit of an unknown. You get a lottery ball pick that gives you your upwind-downwind starting position.
Then it’s a lively energetic start – Run fast, start fast = finish fast…
Flat Out Racing
Can you see the gybe mark!?
GYBE LINES
TOP 9 QUALIFY
All comes down to this….
- 64 competitors
- 2 times out and back
- 8 heats
- Through surf – jump to see the gybe mark!
- Crowd pleasing Inside gybe next to the beach
- Top 9 race in Mega Final
Tight gybing
Get that racing line
Jaeger Stone
Back loops mid heat!
LOCAL & INTERNATONAL
World Windsurfing
Great to see such a strong talented local windsurfing community, blended with international visitors competing at this famous windsurfing location – including wave guru and local fire man Jaeger Stone – who is a truly worthy of the phrase ‘awesome sailor’!
MEGA FINAL
Top 9 qualified for a ‘Mega Final’ and a shot at the ‘World Wave Rally Title’.
I’ve not ‘competed’ for years but managed to make the MEGA Final. Wasn’t the best final race for me, didn’t (couldn’t:) run fast enough, got covered at the start, pulled back some places, but then lost a couple on the final beach run.
Note-to-self – Could have done better, need to practice my running beach starts.
But really enjoyed ending up in the top 10 of a unique event.
If you’re near ‘Coro’ in January 2027 get more info HERE
MEGA FINAL
All or nothing
RAce GYBE
