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Penang International Regatta 2010

Syamil — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:13:35 +0000

This is still way ahead of time but worth mentioning especially for those who wants to start practising & prepare for the event. Last year we received a great number of participations especially in the raceboard & RSX class. Wind speed was recorded at 18-21 knots on the second & third day of the race. Great food, fantastic venue & amazing people. Everyone’s invited.

Date: 5th to 7 th of March.
Venue: Penang Swimming Club, Tg Bungah (Batu Feringghi), Malaysia.
Format: Marathon and course racing.
Class: RSX, Raceboard, Bic Techno 283 and Formula
Entrance fee : tbc (last year was RM 75)

p/s: Much apologies for the lack of updates regarding Endurance event in PD. It seems that the main organizer is not yet confirmed on the date & venue despite the fact that we are closing to August in less than 2 months. We will update any info when they are made available. In the meantime, please subscribe to get all the latest info straight to your feed reader.

Malaysian Endurance Windsurfing Event

Syamil — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:50:00 +0000

The event is still under detailed preparation as noted by the organizer, Greg from mybatik.com.my . You should expect Notice of Race to be out probably in May. Please keep yourself updated by subscribing to the site’s RSS feed or via email.

As of now, here is an extract from the official website

Venue – Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Date – to be confirmed – tentatively, August 2009
Duration – 3 days of competition, 4 nights
Route – Avillion and Admiral Cove Resorts
Class – Kona + Open
Target Number – 100+ entrants
For Participants – Limited free board hire,
Free – Accommodation, Food, Airline tickets, Freight, Prizes, Trophies, Entertainment
Television – International prime-time telecasting via 9+ cable TV channels, throughout 60+ countries, with 146 million households, potential viewing audience of 365 million

You can also follow the forum discussion of the event here.

Pattaya Cup 2009

Syamil — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:59:00 +0000

3 to 5 April 2009
Jomtien Beach, Pattaya, Thailand

Class: Formula, Slalom, RSX, IMCO, Raceboard and Bic techno (youth)

Pattaya has received contestants from many countries for the race namely Austria, England, Canada, France, German, Hongkong, China, Singapore, South Korean, Japan, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Spain etc.

~~The Event was supposed to be held in December 2008, then postponed to January, and after some further arrangement changed its date to 3rd of April. Read more about it here~~ update : Sorry for the wrong information, here’s Ong from Singapore correcting it for me,

http://balokwindjunkies.blogspot.com/2009/04/pattaya-cup-2009.html

Reference to your page above, pls note that the Pattaya conducted two events -
Jan – RSX Youth World 2008 (SG sent two RSX windsurfers) [see video clip in my facebook]
Apr – Thailand Windsurfing Championship 2009 [photos will be uploaded shortly]

Wishing you a plane surfing.

Ong PH

Thanks Ong!

Our friends from the Singaporean’s Youth Olympic Game YOG sent a whole bunch of their squadron to Pattaya for this event. My best wishes to all of them.

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Update: Chris Ting written a post about the event here.

Summaries of the event; Wind was not really that great, so no FW race, only raceboards & RS-X.