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Cameron McDougall - 3rd in the Micros ranking

After much debate, the decision was made to hold this month’s comp at Moffat Beach. The surf was a solid 3-4 foot with a slight off shore breeze. Before the heats kicked off a group photo was taken of the groms sporting the new drug awareness rashies, compliments of Surfing Australia. But then inadvertently deleted by Fizzle Dizzle! So we’ll have to take two on that one next comp. With the early high tide we decided to run the grommets first on the inside bank while Tim, Silky and Master Bomba tried to fix a minor glitch with the computer scoring system. Paul Ponz did his best to keep up with the grumbling bellies with his tasty bacon and egg burgers. Standout surfing from K Dog saw him win the cadets. Twigger took out the open finals after spending Saturday mind surfing some pumping waves while hanging out with Cale. Coming in at second in the Opens final was Reef Heazelwood with a stand out performance. Laura Poncini, Sam Poncini, Luke Glover, Ben Muskens, Will Muskens and Brett Doran all took out their respective divisions. Well done guys!

words by Lisa Litfin

Check the pictures by Gary O’Donnell on the facebook page.

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Hi members, Flat Rock Weekend is on again. To book your own sites phone (O2) 66864848 and go on www.flatrockcamping.com.au to choose a site, mention Windansea Boardriders and they will put us together.

Club will provide dinner Fri / Sat nights.

Its the same weekend as last year so lets hope for the waves we scored last time.

Friday 25th and Saturday 26th May - All members welcome!

Festivities for the Pa and Ma Bendall 2012 kicked off at the RSL on Thursday night. Crowds were kept entertained with art exhibitions, wine tastings, old memorabilia to peruse and a Q & A couch session with Richard Harvey, Bushy Mitchell, Gary O’Donnell, Matt Clark (No “E” in Clark) and Wade Goodall. A story telling highlight was Richards Harvey’s story about getting “stuck” surfing Tea Tree for a week because of a cyclone. Fortunately he was “stuck” with a small crew of surfing legends. A good start to an even better weekend.

Very uncharacteristically for the Easter weekend we were greeted on Day 1 with a picture perfect morning and to top it off, 3 to 4 foot of swell. By mid-morning the place was packed and buzzing with excitement. Huey was on our side! The day didn’t start off as perfectly for poor old Twiga who ended up with a bunch of sea urchins in his foot. Lucky we had our resident doctor on call – Dr Dave! After months out of the water there was no sign of Wade Goodall’s career threatening injury as he annihilated his round one heat with some of his signature aerial manoeuvres. With a number of Windan Sea Members making it through to Day 2, the level of surfing from the club was at an all time high.

Day 2 was a similar picture with the sun shining and 3 to 4 foot offshore lines. The surfing was at a high standard however only a handful of Wind an Sea boys made the finals on Sunday. Crowd favourite Eli Steele was knocked out in the semis much to the disgust of a few of the locals! The food stalls kept the crowds full and the Brazilian Boys kept the carnivores amongst us very happy with their meat fiesta. DJ Wezman finished the day off with some fat beats that kept the place buzzing till dark.

The good weather and pumping waves continued into Day 3. The Heazelwood boys took out the finals in the Father and Son comp and Lippy and Terry represented the committee in the Senior Men’s final. Cut back Clive, Wade Goodall, Eli Steele, Reef Heazelwood, Christian Kearney, Noah Kearney and Nic Doran also made it through to the finals. Wade impressed the judges as well as the spectators by scoring a 9 and a 10 for his first two waves. And Wind an Sea president Terry took down the current World Masters champ in the Masters final.

Check all the pictures on Windansea Facebook page

The presentations were held at the RSL where Dejan Shred Factor set the place on fire with his surf guitar tunes. Everyone was talking about how great the weekend was and Gary O’Donnell even said it was quite possibly the best Pa and Ma Bendall Memorial ever – and he has seen a few to say the least. A great Easter weekend had by all!

words by Lisa Litfin

Results:

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Thursday @ Caloundra RSL

Doors officially open at 6.30 but we will probably have things open at 5.30 with general surf footage and music playing

7.15pm: Official welcome by MC which includes:

• Pa and Ma Bendall Contest Talk
• Heat draw on big screen
• Caloundra Surf Festival (what it represents)

7.45pm: On the Couch Q and A with Bushy Mitchell, Richard Harvey, Wade Goodall and Garry O’Donnell

8.25pm: Top 6 surf film entrants shown on the big screen – judged by the Q and A panel (winner announced Sunday)

8.40pm: 10min highlight package of the Pa and Ma Doco

8.50pm: Premiere of Shagga’s “A Surfers Paradise”

Music and general surf footage until close

Friday, Saturday and Sunday @ Moffat Beach

Pa & Ma 2012 Heat Draw

Pa & Ma 2012 Heat Schedule

Sunday @ Caloundra RSL

Doors Open at 2pm with general footage and music to be played

3.30pm: Ziggy Alberts

4.30pm: Art competition presentations (to be judged by Q and A panel on Thursday night)

5pm: Dejan Shred Factor

6pm: Pa and Ma Bendall Memorial Contest presentations

7pm – 8.30pm: Ten Cents in Quebec

Surf Footage on big screen and music until close