The wind finally came to play for round three of the Victorian Wave series!

Sandy Pt provided the strong turn out of sailors with a building Easterly and nice swell. To kick things off while we waited for the breeze to build, Alistair McLeod ran a brief beginner wave sailing clinic and gave some pointers on all things wavesailing, everything from what gear to rig, to getting out over whitewater. 

The 'B' division was a popular class with people eager to get out in the water with Alistair's words of advice fresh in their heads! 

They hit the water with 20knots of wind and a few feet of swell with everyone having a good crack at wavesailing.

Tom Rosoman got off to a great start catching a few waves early on and getting some really nice turns. Dave Walland's wavesailing is really improving as he is starting to get his bottom turns linked up and reading the swell better as he gets more time in the waves.

Lisa was the only one entered in the women s class, she sailed well and got some nice wave rides.

Great to see so many people who haven't done much wavesailing coming along to have a go, special mention to Ben Wolstencoft who has only been sailing for 6 months - he got out in the waves for his first time and managed to catch a few waves! Great to see.

Alex put in a great performance in the 'B' heat and sailed consistently for the whole 30mins catching some great long rides.

While the emphasis of the 'B' class is fun, overall best performances were awarded:

1st Alex 

2nd Tom Rosoman

3rd Dave Walland 

By the time the 'A' final began the wind had picked up to a solid 20-25knots. 

The waves where not lining up well, and were quite peaky which made it hard to pick the good rides.

With only 5 sailors going through to the final wave selection was critical.

Alistair McLeod got some really good rides early on and secured his place in the final, Andrew 'Hock' Hocking milked his waves managing heaps of turns which put him in the final.

Joel Ryan & Evan Hawkey got some solid jumps and consistent wave riding which put both of them through.

Further down the beach Simon Hanson got some long rides which gave him the last spot in the final.

Andy Ackland struggled to find waves early in the heat which made him narrowly miss out for a place in the final, although a spectacular goiter attempt at the end of the heat got a few cheers from the judges!

Local Phil Vawdry also just fell short of making the final, he just needed a few more waves.

It seemed like as soon as the final started - the swell went flat with competitors finding it hard to find rides for the first part of the heat! 

Hock's waveriding scoring highly with the judges getting long rides with lots of turns, while Alistair's wave riding also scored very highly with some really powerful smacks and aerials. Both sailors not managing to find enough jumps to score well in the overall though.

Simon stayed downwind finding some good waves while Evan and Joel put together a solid overall performance scoring highly on both waves and jumps.

Evan managed a couple of nice forwards and a backloop, while Joel managed to knock him off with a higher scoring backloop and a few forward loops as well. 

Final results for round 3:

1st Joel Ryan

2nd Evan Hawkey

3rd Andrew Hocking

4th Simon Hanson

5th Alistair McLeod

After the comp was run, a few sailors went up the beach further to take advantage of a much bigger swell for an epic sunset session!

Stay tuned for some great photos!

Thanks to the head judge Brett Lindstrom, Jodie for coming and taking photos and everyone else for coming down!

Also thanks to all our series sponsors for helping us out this year, it's been a tough season with conditions but it's great to see some wave events back on the Victorian calendar!

Stay tuned for overall series results 

Victorian Wavesailing series