Sunday 27 September 2015

West Wales soaring

After the Welsh Open Vic, Mike and myself headed off to West Wales for a week of coastal soaring.  We had a ball in great weather on half a dozen different cliffs, most of which probably hadn't been soared before.
Some photos are below.
West Wales - 2015

Sunday 13 September 2015

Welsh Open 2015 final results and photos

Thanks largely to very kind weather we had a truly excellent event with 13 rounds.
Photos and a write up soon, first though the results...

Welsh Open 2015

Fastest time of the event Inaki Elizondo 32.51

1 Simon Thornton 10949.04
2 Joel West 10873.91
3 Peter Gunning 10780.76
4 Martin Newnham 10606.39
5 Greg Dakin 10602.92
6 Inaki Elizondo 10417.80
7 Mark Treble 10335.98
8 Mike Evans 10250.86
9 Richard Bago 10249.23
10 Stefan Bertschi 10210.18
11 Graeme Mahoney 10194.47
12 Kurt Planitzer 10186.40
13 Ronnie Lampe 10074.38
14 Kevin Newton 10051.00
15 Jose luis Alvarez 10012.71
16 Daniel Schneider 9959.05
17 John Phillips 9953.30
18 Stefan Fraundorfer 9941.96
19 Stefan Bernardy 9857.97
20 Lazaro Martinez 9793.96
21 Fernando Moro 9776.22
22 Frits Donker duyvis 9759.22
23 Keith Wood 9715.88
24 Clayton Landells 9678.49
25 Jorge Medina 9673.09
26 Tony Livingstone 9627.25
27 Martin Drewett 9583.61
28 Reto Blumer 9569.39
29 Inigo Herrera 9548.21
30 Dave Rumble 9528.69
31 John Treble 9516.02
32 Alejandro Gil garcia 9486.13
33 Mike Shellim 9447.50
34 Paul Stubley 9392.71
35 Andy Burgoyne 9373.67
36 Ewan Maxwell 9370.90
37 Erik Heijne 9348.00
38 Christian Schnepfleitner 9261.29
39 Scott Ravenscroft 9220.91
40 Rick Ruijsink 9047.12
41 Marcelino Punal 8956.90
42 Jon Edoson 8837.83
43 Jason Bioletti 8735.97
44 Ian Mason 8634.13
45 Mark Abbotts 7254.93
46 Tony Robertson 6185.69
47 Frank Hulton 5776.88
48 Vic Eldridge 3983.62

Team results
Mickey's Masssive  Joel West Peter Gunning Stefan Bertschi 31864.85
GBU Kevin Newton Martin Newnham Simon Thornton 31606.43
Ye lo que hay Inaki Elizondo Jose Luis Alvarez Fernando Moro 30206.72
GIFCOF Martin Drewett Tony Livingstone Graeme Mahoney 29405.32
XEIS Kurt Planitzer Christian Schnepfleitner Stefan Fraundorfer 29389.66
All Stars Mark Treble John Treble Mike Shellim 29299.51
Tea Swillers Ian Mason John Phillips Greg Dakin 29190.36
Bonkers Paul Stubley Mike Evans Andy Burgoyne 29017.24
Fake Pilots Lazaro Martinez Jorge Medina Inigo Herrera 29015.25

Saturday 12 September 2015

Welsh Open results to day two



1 Joel West 7446.82
2 Simon Thornton 7356.41
3 Martin Newnham 7311.00
4 Inaki Elizondo 7235.77
5 Peter Gunning 7200.50
6 Greg Dakin 7173.13
7 Mark Treble 7073.78
8 Mike Evans 7051.99
9 Richard Bago 7043.73
10 Ronnie Lampe 6921.82
11 Graeme Mahoney 6906.30
12 Stefan Bertschi 6869.59
13 Jose luis Alvarez 6856.97
14 Daniel Schneider 6821.54
15 Kurt Planitzer 6791.09
16 Keith Wood 6747.37
17 Stefan Bernardy 6730.23
18 Frits Donker duyvis 6699.36
19 John Phillips 6664.29
20 Kevin Newton 6637.66
21 Fernando Moro 6635.80
22 Reto Blumer 6624.33
23 Stefan Fraundorfer 6616.51
24 Tony Livingstone 6604.99
25 Martin Drewett 6594.82
26 Lazaro Martinez 6545.97
27 Mark Abbotts 6540.89
28 Clayton Landells 6535.08
29 Jorge Medina 6516.69
30 Dave Rumble 6458.93
31 Andy Burgoyne 6429.76
32 Inigo Herrera 6409.57
33 John Treble 6392.26
34 Mike Shellim 6381.40
35 Erik Heijne 6360.11
36 Ewan Maxwell 6337.35
37 Paul Stubley 6314.43
38 Christian Schnepfleitner 6243.45
39 Alejandro Gil garcia 6170.00
40 Scott Ravenscroft 6089.08
41 Rick Ruijsink 6088.77
42 Jason Bioletti 6041.86
43 Marcelino Punal 5983.84
44 Ian Mason 5943.73
45 Jon Edoson 5828.96
46 Tony Robertson 5687.49
47 Frank Hulton 5163.14
48 Vic Eldridge 3983.62

Friday 11 September 2015

Welsh Open results contd.

Welsh Open results cont.

Welsh Open results cont.

Welsh Open results cont.

Results day 1

Thursday 10 September 2015

Welsh Open - important notice

The forecasts all point at us flying on the Crest tomorrow, so unless there are clearly different conditions in the morning please make your way straight across. Ideally we would like everyone starting to make their way across by 9.30 please.

Be sure to park with your wheels inside the white line and follow the path indicated by the yellow sign.  Don't wear sandals, the terrain means you need a bit of ankle support!

The conditions there today were awesome and the forecast is for the same again... don't leave your ballast in the hotel!

The Crest is awesome today

Wednesday 9 September 2015

Several hours later.....

Sent from my iPhone

Slight dent in the plan....

Packing

Slightly different transport this year compared with the usual camper van. Fair play to Porsche... Fitting two F3F models, a Vector DS, a foamie and a DLG , with enough kit for a lads week in West Wales isn't bad going.




Saturday 5 September 2015

Welsh Open 2015 - important note

The final entry has been updated. Please check you're on there if you expect to be!
If you want to enter a team please do so by 19:00 BST on Sunday, 6 September.