It just gets better!  and sounds like some faster posts to come. Awesome guys, world class

WElcome Martin Awesome numbers!!!!!!

Congrats guys, looks like you've beaten the SRM by 1 point. It's still too early to call, posts can be up to a week late, and there's always the butterfly effect.

Thanks decrepit. Offcourse it will be fantastic to win this challenge in the first month we compete, but we saw that all other teams can have an influence of the end results of the top 3 teams aswell by posting distance results for example in between the results of two battling teams. Distance you can even sail with 10 knots and formula gear. So we know what to do;-). We have to think and sail completely different compared to GPSSS postings were its is all about 5x 10 sec average. On this challenge we have to sail distance, NM, 1 hours, alpha's etc and with 2 or more people at the same day. I made for example some good alpha's but these doesn't count as my team mate didn't pay attention to this on the same day. So if we will not win february, we learned a lot this month from our postings on this website and we will come back even stronger. Last year i did only one hour attempt in summer just for fun, this year we have to do it every month, also we have to sail sometimes a little bit longer to get some more distance. At the end this is great because i hate the gym and this is a fantastic way to work on my overall condition and to get the discipline to do it.

Sounds Like you've worked it out Jacques, brilliant effort on your first month!!!!!!!!

these numbers are absolutely unreal! well done, What boards are you guys using? 

some time you get around to it, i would love to see some pictures of your speed sailing spots in the netherlands. 

Thanks Hardie. Offcourse we had to work this out, that's why it took so long to enter this website with the dutch teams. It is sad that we missed out januari, but with 4 discards we can afford it i guess. Hopefully we keep on motivated every month again. Behind the scene we are looking for some more strong riders to join our team. Are transfers allowed?;-)

We were all on the smallest JP Speedboard, the 45, we use this board all the time when we are powered up with 6,2 and smaller sails in flatwater speed conditions. The 54 speed is a low wind speedboard for the 7,0 and the 49 we only use in extreme or choppy conditions.

Here the link to gpsss for more info

http://www.gps-speedsurfing.com/?mnu=forum&forum=2&val=19137

I bought a Gopro HD helmet cam and i test it already in France last week. It was cloudy so the quality of the movie was not good, but i have already a nice video of riding waves down the course with 35+ knots. I have to figure out how to post it on youtube. Look forward to use this cam more often in the next weeks to get a real picture of how a 43 knot run and/or a 29 knot alpha looks like from a riders point of view.

Congratz guys!

Maybe we should introduce a new category "from another planet". 

Nice teamwork,

Mark

Bloody fast .. great team effort, congrats!!

WOW

what team scores...........

Jacques,

Yes team transfers are allowed however please take this into consideration.

What makes it really fun is having inter-team rivalry within your own country, if you have all the best riders from 1 country in one team, you will definitely be competitive in the International Cup and probably win it, but it might be more fun having 2 or 3 Dutch Teams that are highly competitive with each other!!!

Must be a bit boring to have no other national teams to compete against.

Awesome speeds guys well done

...seriously, who invited these guys?

I'm starting to wonder about that myself, slowie! 

I want to start a Bombora /any sail pre 1995 +26knots Club.  Anyone out there interested?

Seriously to take out the month on their first posting is very impressive.  Looking forward to Jaques' 29knot Alpha footage too.

Yep, we are small country with many teams, including neighbouring Slovenia and we try to make teams even to have more fun .

Hey Jacques, look forward to seeing the Gopro HD footage.

A simple way to edit the mp4 files from the Gopro is to use Quicktime Pro to cut out the bits you don't need and reduce to a more manageable file size. Set yourself up an account on Youtube, find the upload button and leave it over night.

Click on the icon that looks like a film strip where you write up your posts and copy the url of your youtube clip in. Should be in business..

Don't worry.

Just some names from competitive riders from the other dutch teams where we have to compete against;

Wad1team; Peter de Wit (dutch speed champion) and Peter Volwater (don't know this guy;-))

Dutch Fun Speeders; Dirk Doppenberg (record holder 500 meter netherlands) and Dennis Littel (dutch champion Formula and Slalom)

I'm sure these teams will give all the other teams some serious competition! We were just lucky with the conditions in februari but the rest of the year this will be a tight battle.

Some big numbers and some big names im reading. Nice work fellas