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Foil Races 2024

West Coast Downwinder [Perth]

Saturday, 23rd November 2024 – Western Australia

Event Site https://oceanpaddler.com/ocean-events/wa-race-week/

Port Beach to Sorrento (25km)

Organised by Ocean Paddler & Shaw and Partners.

Race Recap

An awesome afternoon of foil racing for the 2024 West Coast Downwinder. The seabreeze filled in early and we had a good 20 knots of wind along the race course. Stand-out performances from local boy Andrew Bell who managed to keep pace with the professional foilers on a Code 850S, closely followed by another West Aussie local Hugh “The Foil Project” Mitchell. Most notable performances were the father and son duo of Kurt and Gareth Mumford hailing from Esperance, WA. Kurt won the prize for youngest competitor in the field at the age of 15 will no doubt be chasing the lead pack in the years to come. The international YouTube sensation Jason “Downwind Drifter” Watson graced us with his Jesus like presence floating on water along with his band of Kiwi mates in Scott and Jackson Keon and Jon McGettigan. Hopefully we will see more Kiwi’s take the journey over the ditch and head to West Oz for racing in 2025. The longest travelled International racer went to Richard Boudia from France who managed a respectable 16th place slightly handicapped by his limited equipment choice as he was missing his small race foils. The Ladies fleet had three local entrants all from Western Australia. A very close battle fought at the front between Code Foil riders Krystal Cotterill and Angela Juengling finishing withing minutes of each other. Taking a very respectable third place was Aya Okano riding an OG Art999, hopefully MrAxis can hook Aya up with a Hot New Fireball to get her up to speed with the front runners! There was a long list of fresh racers the Perth East Coast of Australia for whom the West Coast Downwinder was their first long distance foil race. Well done to all for making it to the start line and signing up. Hopefully in 2025 we can see over 100 people enter the WA Race Week foil division.

Top Finishers

  1. James Casey (NSW) – 53:10
  2. Kai Thompson (QLD) – 53:36
  3. Andrew Bell (WA) – 54:48
  4. Hugh Mitchell (WA) – 54:58
  5. Alex Tibbits (QLD) – 55:06
  1. Krystal Cotterill (WA) – 1:09:52
  2. Angela Juengling (WA) – 1:13:08
  3. Aya Okano (WA) – 1:35:52

Pictures Courtesy of @kbc_snaps

  • 1st James Casey
  • 2nd Kai Thompson
  • 3rd Andrew Bell
  • 4th Hugh Mitchell
  • 1st Krystal Cotterill
  • 2nd Ange Juengling
  • Race Start – Port Beach
  • Race Start – Port Beach

Sunset SurfSki Series [Perth]

Race 1 – Thursday 21st November 2024
Race 2 – Tuesday 26th November 2024
Race 3 – Thursday 28th November 2024

Event Site https://www.sunsetsurfskiseries.com/

A mixed surf-ski, sup and foil event along the Perth Metro Coastline.

Port Beach to City Beach (12km)

Organised by Ocean Paddler & Dr Benjamin Hewitt

Race 1 Top Finishers

  1. Kai Thompson (QLD) – 30:32
  2. James Casey (NSW) – 30:48
  3. Alex Tibbits (QLD) – 31:18
  1. Angela Juengling (WA) – 40:24

Race 2 Top Finishers

  1. Kai Thompson (QLD) – 24:56
  2. James Casey (NSW) – 25:09
  3. Josh Ku (NSW) – 25:29
  1. Angela Juengling (WA) – 32:47
Josh Ku giving his POV from SSS Race No.2.

Race 3 Top Finishers

  1. James Casey (NSW) – 26:48
  2. Kai Thompson (QLD) – 26:49
  3. Hugh Mitchell (WA) – 28:14
  1. Angela Juengling (WA) – 34:45

DW Week 2024 [Cairns]

Saturday, 27th July 2024 – Queensland

A 45km Ocean race. Cairns to Port Douglas.

Very light wind on race day. A gruelling day on the water by all accounts.

https://hekilioutrigger.com.au/gbroc/

Finishers

  1. Simon Stokes – 2:14:27
  2. Craig Campbell – 2:21:03
  3. Tim Fitzsimmons – 2:31:46
  4. Dylan Bez – 2:49:44
  5. Jarrod Snow – 3:03:51
  6. Luke Bamford – 3:07:56
  7. John Messenger – 3:17:30
  8. Jordan Gilbert
  9. Josh Ku

M20 2024 [Hawaii]

Sunday, 21st July 2024

Molokai to Oahu Foil Race

Event site https://www.molokai2oahu.com

Men Winners

  1. Edo Tanas (ITALY) – 2:02:58
  2. Finn Spencer (HAW) – 2:04:09
  3. Andrew Gibbons (HAW) – 2:04:40

Female Winners

  1. Annie Reickert (HAW) – 2:27:12
  2. Fiona Wlyde (US) – 2:36:49
  3. Gabriella Bella (HAW) – 2:52:27

M2M 2024 [Hawaii]

19-20th July 2024

Maui to Molokai Challenge (42km)

Event site https://molokaiholokai.com

Men Winners

  1. Edo Tanas (ITALY) – 1:36:09
  2. Andrew Gibbons (HAW) – 1:37:29
  3. Finn Spencer (HAW) – 1:37:40

Female Winners

  1. Gabriella Bella (HAW) – 1:53:15
  2. Annie Reickert (HAW) – 1:54:41
  3. Fiona Wylde (US) – 1:57:55