35 knots of cranking South Easterly wind, record participation and a stack of Personal Best times!

Fifty SUP’s and 40 surf-skis lined up to make this a record field in the 4th round of the 2012 PRIMI Naish Downwind Dash Series. Conditions were close to epic with the strongest winds and biggest runners we’ve seen so far this year.

These conditions clearly suited our SUP championship leader Chris Bertish (Naish) who was first out the back and never looked back. Chris caught runner after runner and although brother Greg (Coreban) was keeping up initially, it wasn’t long before Chris dropped him and the rest of the field like pieces of hot coal.

Greg held 2nd to the line, but only just, as surprise of the night, Justin Bing (Coreban) tore through the field to take his first podium finish in only his 3rd downwinder! Justin Bing is the reigning South African SUP surfing and Longboarding Champion and represented South Africa at the last ISA Worlds – so he is clearly used to winning and will be a man to watch in the future!

In the ladies class Brigette van Aswegen (Starboard) once again took the win but young Mishka Steyn (Starboard) had her best downwinder ever and is closing the gap every week. Mishka even lost her paddle in a fall and was gracious that Wayne Robertson spotted the distress call and was there to pick it up! In third was Monica Wohlgemuth (Naish), who nearly cracked the one-hour mark, also setting a personal best in the process.

In total 42 out of the 50 paddlers set a personal best time – plenty of proof that conditions were exceptional.The juniors are getting fast, very fast, with PB’s to all of our top three in Ethan Koopmans (Naish), Kimon Dos Santos (Naish) and Joshua Robertson (Fanatic).

The 4th completed race means everyone gets a discard in the overall standings, and Chris Bertish maintains his lead over Dylan Frick and Greg Bertish.

We had a couple of exciting newcomers, notably Nico Pfitzenmaier who is an ex-professional Xterra tri-athlete and Nick Hulm, also with a profesional tri-athlon background. Both dipped under one hour on their first ever downwinder and Nick placed mid-field with a 56.27 after having set foot on a SUP for the first time only last week!

Full race results below (…catch up with the results from the first three races >>> 2012/2013 PRIMI Naish Downwind Dash Series).

– Peter

PRIMI Naish Downwind Dash Series – LEADERBOARD

 

PRIMI Naish Downwind Dash Series – Race #4 RESULTS

Date: 7th November, 2012
Wind: SSE 25-35 knots
Course: 10.1km

#	Name	Time	Class	Division	% of 1st	Grade	km/h	min/km	Board
1	Chris Bertish	0:45:51	14'	Open	100.00	Elite	13.22	0:04:32	Naish 14 Glide 2012
2	Greg Bertish	0:47:11	14'	Open	97.17	Elite	12.84	0:04:40	Coreban 14' Dart
3	Justin Bing	0:47:52	14'	Open	95.79	Elite	12.66	0:04:44	Coreban 14' Alpha
4	Brad Adams	0:48:00	14'	Open	95.52	Elite	12.63	0:04:45	Fanatic 14 Falcon
5	Colin Heckroodt	0:49:20	14'	Open	92.94	A	12.28	0:04:53	Starboard 14' OO
6	Andrew Cillie	0:49:28	14'	Masters	92.69	A	12.25	0:04:54	Starboard 14 'OO
7	Gary van Rooyen	0:49:34	14'	Masters	92.50	A	12.23	0:04:54	Coreban 14 Dart
8	Pietro Muscas	0:50:08	14'	Masters	91.46	A	12.09	0:04:58	Naish 14 Glide 2012
9	Peter Petersen	0:50:27	14'	Masters	90.88	A	12.01	0:05:00	Naish 14 Glide (2012)
10	Matthew Linden	0:50:34	14'	Open	90.67	A	11.98	0:05:00	Naish 14 Glide AST
11	Nicky Carstens	0:50:40	14'	Masters	90.49	A	11.96	0:05:01	Custom 14'
12	Ethan Koopman	0:50:52	14'	Junior	90.14	A	11.91	0:05:02	Naish 14 Glide
13	Dylan Frick	0:51:24	14'	Open	89.20	B	11.79	0:05:05	Starboard 14' Ace Pro
14	Francois Frick	0:51:46	14'	Open	88.57	B	11.71	0:05:08	Starboard 14' Ace Pro
15	Tom King	0:51:55	14'	Open	88.31	B	11.67	0:05:08	Fanatic 14' Fly
16	Glen Thompson	0:53:05	14'	Open	86.37	B	11.42	0:05:15	Naish 14 Glide AST
17	Dave Maxwell	0:53:15	14'	Masters	86.10	B	11.38	0:05:16	Naish 14 Glide
18	Kimon Dos Santos	0:53:18	14'	Junior	86.02	B	11.37	0:05:17	Naish 14 Glide
19	John Du Rooy	0:53:40	14'	Open	85.43	B	11.29	0:05:19	Coreban
20	Joshua Robertson	0:53:48	14'	Junior	85.22	B	11.26	0:05:20	Fanatic 14 Falcon
21	James Taylor	0:54:09	14'	Open	84.67	C	11.19	0:05:22	Naish 14 Glide AST
22	Rob Munro	0:54:18	14'	Masters	84.44	C	11.16	0:05:23	Fanatic 14 OO
23	Tyran Cooper	0:55:31	14'	Open	82.59	C	10.92	0:05:30	Coreban
24	Brigette van Aswegen	0:56:05	14'	Lady	81.75	C	10.81	0:05:33	Starboard 14' Ace Pro
25	Nick Muhl	0:56:27	14'	Open	81.22	D	10.74	0:05:35	Naish 14 Glide AST
26	Gavin Dace	0:56:37	14'	Open	80.98	D	10.70	0:05:36	Naish 14 Glide AST
27	Michael Fiet	0:56:55	14'	Open	80.56	C	10.65	0:05:38	Coreban 14' Dart
28	Guy Bubb	0:57:18	14'	Open	80.02	C	10.58	0:05:40	Naish 14 Glide (2012)
29	Neal Esterhuysen	0:58:35	14'	Open	78.26	D	10.34	0:05:48	Coreban
30	Mishka Steyn	0:58:55	14'	Lady/Junior	77.82	D	10.29	0:05:50	Starboard 14' OO
31	Wayne Robertson	0:59:25	14'	Open	77.17	D	10.20	0:05:53	Coreban 14 Dart
32	Nico Pfitzenmaier	0:59:36	14'	Open	76.93	D	10.17	0:05:54	Naish 14 Glide AST
33	Brad Orkin	1:00:00	14'	Open	76.42	D	10.10	0:05:56	Naish 14 Glide
34	Craig Ginsberg	1:00:18	14'	Masters	76.04	D	10.05	0:05:58	Naish 14 Glide (2012)
35	Steve Tripney	1:00:29	14'	Masters	75.81	D	10.02	0:05:59	Coreban 14 Dart
36	Monika Wohlgemuth	1:00:46	14'	Lady	75.45	D	9.97	0:06:01	Naish 14 Glide (2012)
37	Tammy Robarts	1:02:24	12'6	Lady	73.48	D	9.71	0:06:11	Naish 11'6 Nalu
38	Naas Terreblanche	1:03:38	14'	Open	72.05	D	9.52	0:06:18	Naish 14 Glide AST
39	Christina Fernandez	1:04:22	12'6	Lady	71.23	D	9.41	0:06:22	Cabrinha 10'6
40	Patricia Kohrs	1:04:22	14'	Lady	71.23	D	9.41	0:06:22	Naish 14 Glide AST
41	Deon Bing	1:04:47	12'6	Masters	70.77	D	9.35	0:06:25	Coreban Soft Top
42	David van der Spuy	1:04:49	14'	Open	70.74	D	9.35	0:06:25	Coreban
43	Brendon Scharfetter	1:05:01	14'	Open	70.52	D	9.32	0:06:26	Fanatic 14 OO
44	Jonathan Donner	1:05:21	12'6	Open	70.16	D	9.27	0:06:28	Naish 12' Glide
45	Craig Girdlestone	1:05:30	14'	Masters	70.00	D	9.25	0:06:29	Naish 14 Glide AST
46	Craig Ziman	1:05:57	14'	Open	69.52	D	9.19	0:06:32	Coreban
47	Paul Ruger	1:11:54	14'	Masters	63.77	D	8.43	0:07:07	Coreban 14 Dart
48	Justin Trent	1:12:04	14'	Masters	63.62	D	8.41	0:07:08	Naish 14 Glide (2012)
49	Johan Adler	1:12:35	14'	Open	63.17	D	8.35	0:07:11
50	Oliver Potgieter	1:12:50	14'	Open	62.95	D	8.32	0:07:13

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