Fitzroy Beach Reserve

P.O. Box 3114

New Plymouth 4341

CLUB: 06 758 1489

Secretary: 06 751 3291

e-mail: mail@npsurf.co.nz

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LINEUP Vol. iX. Vii

FEBRUARY 2015

2015 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Once more Huey smiled on the Club and produced two days of reasonable surf for our 2015 Club Champs. A further bonus was SNZ postponing their grom comp at Whangamata due to lack of surf. We often get complaints that we hold our club champs when there is also a SNZ comp on. Not our problem. We set the dates for this event way back in September and SNZ did not finalise their calendar until December. So often do comps at Whangamata get postponed most of the accommodation providers there will not give refunds which makes the cost of competing almost prohibitive for many. Consequently, with that out of the way, the Juniors were able to take full part and strut their stuff before some serious senior talent including a number of former national champions. With the exception of the Women’s division, every division was entered – great effort on all who entered. A huge thank you to those who volunteered their time to manage the champs and gave up two days of surfing – the Contest Director, Beach Marshal, timekeeper, judges, talliers, cooks and general hands; THANKS.

If you haven’t kept up with our Facebook page then read on, enjoy the action, and find out the winners and grinners.

BACHELOR TIPENE

BEN KING

BRIAN KETTLE

BRODIE ARBUCKLE

BRUCE RICHARDS

WAYNE YEARBURY

CAIN ALDRIDGE

CRAIG WILLIAMSON

DAN FARR

ELI SMITH

HAMISH LOVE

ISAAC KETTLE

JARROD LEWIS

JEREMY GRAINGER

JASON MATTHEWS

JOEL CLEGG

JOSH KETTLE

JARRED HANCOX

KAHANA NGAIA

KAVA MATTHEWS

LUCCA LIND

LUKE FISHER

MARK BECKER

NEAL PULLEN

ALLEN PIDWELL

PIP NGAIA

REEF MATTHEWS

RICCARDO LUCIBELLA

SAM BOUND

SAM DINGLE

STEVE BUTLAND

STEVE CROTON

STEVE LAZARUS

TOM BUTLAND

STEVIE BROUGHTON

PRESIDENTIAL COOK

GRINNERS – PID

GRINNERS: STEVE B, BRIAN K, STEVE L.

GRINNERS - MAKE THAT EIGHT

SAM DOWN

JEREMY TAKES ROW

JROD

BYRDS

DAN

TUBES

BACH

JOSH

TOM

CLUB CHAMPS FULL RESULTS:

OPEN - 3 RICCARDO LUCIBELLA, 4 DAN

FARR, 1 JARRED HANCOX, 2 ELI SMITH,

U 14 - 2 SAM DINGLE, 1 TOM BUTLAND,

4 LUCCA LIND, 3 KAVA MATTHEWS.

U 16 - 3 REEF MATTHEWS, 4 SAM DINGLE.

1 JOEL CLEGG, 2 TOM BUTLAND,

U 18 - 4 RICCARDO LUCIBELLA, 2 DAN

FARR, 1 REEF MATTHEWS, 3 ISAAC

KETTLE.

30-39 -3 CAIN ALDRIDGE, 1 JARRED

HANCOX, 2 BACHELOR TIPENE, 4 PIP

NGAIA.

40 -49 - 4 JASON MATTHEWS 1, NEAL

PULLEN, 3 CRAIG WILLIAMSON, 2 PIP

NGAIA.

50 -59 - 1 STEVE (Wave burglar) LAZARUS,

2 BRIAN KETTLE, 3 STEVE BUTLAND.

60-69: 2 ALLEN PIDWELL, 3 BRUCE

RICHARDS, 1 WAYNE YEARBURY.

70+ -ALLEN PIDWELL

JUNIOR GIRLS - 2 STEVIE BROUGHTON.

1 KAHANA NGAIA,

KNEELOS - 2 STEVE CROTON. 1 JARROD

LEWIS,

LONGBOARD -1 SAM BOUND (Absent), 3

HAMISH LOVE, 4 WAYNE YEARBURY, 2

CRAIG WILLIAMSON. (and Izaro).

A TRUE CHAMPION – JROD X 8

THANKS TO OUR ALMOST EVER-

PRESENT PHOTOGRAPHER, DAISY AND

TO SUZI HURLEY FOR THE PHOTOS.

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THE WEATHER A climate outlook released by the National Institute of

Water and Atmosphere (Niwa) this afternoon said temperatures would most likely be in the "above normal" range for all regions of the country until April.

WeatherWatch forecaster Phillip Duncan said the tropics and Southern Ocean appeared to be "firing up ... but we need a break in the highs coming from south of Australia before we can get a wet day". "Our best bet is for another Tasman Sea low later in February - or a sub-tropical low. Neither are in the long range forecasts at this stage."

By the end of next week, windier westerlies could be expected to return with hot weather in the east and slightly cloudier weather in the west, he said. "February looks hot and dry for the areas that are driest and hottest. But that's to be expected in our hottest, driest, month of the year."

The dry conditions continued as sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific Ocean were borderline between neutral and weak El Nino conditions. "However - as was the case over the past few months - the atmospheric circulation in the Pacific is still inconsistent with El Nino," the report said.

International guidance indicates that the probability of El Nino conditions developing over the next three months was about 60 per cent. Over that period, higher pressures than normal were forecast over and to the southeast of the country, and slightly lower than normal pressures were likely to the north of New Zealand.

"This atmospheric pressure pattern is expected to be associated with weak easterly flow anomalies." Sea surface temperatures around New Zealand were forecast to be in the above normal range all around the country. New Zealand had a "slightly elevated chance" of having an ex-tropical system coming within 550km of the country during this tropical cyclone season, with the risk highest between February and April.

Nationally, rainfall would be near normal in the north of the North Island and the north and west of the South Island, while rainfall totals for the season as a whole were equally likely to be in the near-normal or below normal in the east of the South Island.

In the east and west of the North Island, the coming season's rainfall was about equally likely to be near or above normal, Niwa said. Interestingly the rapid drop in sea temperatures at Waitangi weekend were not mirrored in the recorded or projected temperatures by satellite measure or computer model predictions. Maybe the waters close inshore to northern Taranaki just suffered some abnormal fluctuation. Possibly an effect of the large tongue of very cold (17 degrees) water that the SE winds have pushed into the south Taranaki Bight.

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STOP PRESS!

EXCITING NEWS FOR THE

MASTERS!

WE NOW HAVE TWO MASSIVE SPOT

PRIZES, WHICH WILL BE DRAWN FROM

ALL WHO SURF IN THE EASTER

MASTERS.

NOT ONLY WILL THE HAND-CRAFTED,

WOODEN, LAMINATED SURFBOARD BY

SCOTT WALLACE, ( valued at over

$2,000.00) BE UP FOR GRABS, BUT

ALSO WE HAVE SECURED AN

ACCOMMODATION PACKAGE AT THE

COKES SURFING RESORT IN THE

MALDIVES ( airfares not included)

VALUED AT $2,000.00, SUPPLIED BY

THE PERFECT WAVE TRAVEL.

Yah gotta be in to have chance of

winning one of these great prizes.

Entries are filling rapidly (with the

Whangamata mob entering early to

ensure them dominating the divisions)

so don’t be a rego-night walk-up and

miss out; as entries are definitely

limited to 128.

CAPTION COMPETITION

Enter your caption for the photo below

and win a free beer or wine ( or two) at

the Friday 20th Family Fun Night.

Send your entry to:

mail@npsurf.co.nz

The photographer’s decision will be

final.