| Clayton Dougan wins the Wave Windsurfing at Plimmerton |
| Wednesday, 22 September 2010 09:47 |
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The Wellington Wave Champs 2010 was held at Plimmerton in some pretty extreme conditions at times. The surf was large for plimmy with shoulder to head high waves breaking on the shore and it was windy. The gusts in excess of 40 knots with most sailors battening down the hatches on flat 4.0s. It was the first time we have seen all the top Wellington sailors together at one time. Tim Haxell who has been in awesome form recently, Tom Taylor the former international freestyle wizard now back living in Wellington, Tim Bamford just before he moves back to Maui, and of course the always on form Clayton Dougan. James Court landed pretty much 100% of his push loops and sprinkled in a few ok forwards, cheese rolls, and shove-its. The other semi was held in increasingly marginal conditions (especially if you were on a 4.0) and delivered an on form Tom Taylor and Tim Bamford through to the four man final. So the final kicked off and the wind backed off. It was fourth place for James Court and the victory went to Clayton Dougan.
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