Cornish Open 2009 .
The Cornish Open 2009, sponsored by the Blue Bar and Tris Surfboards was held at Porthtowan in blazing sunshine and in 1-2 ft contestable waves.
About time we had some sunshine at a surf competition this year.
The morning surf was clean with light off shores switching to a cross shore wind from the North for the afternoon.
A good entry of upwards of 85 competitors for the five divisions of Open Longboard, Open Shortboard, Ladies Shortboard, U18’S and U16’s shortboard ensured that the competition was run off in one day due to the promise of no surf the next day. Some of the County’s top names took part showing what they can do in small surf. It’s a good job the shortboarders are all built like jockeys !!
Longboard
The Open Longboard was highly competitive with the likes of Ben Skinner, James Parry, Nico Keruzec and Will Eastham taking part.
Results were:
Open
1st Ben Skinner
2nd Nico Keruzec
3rd James Parry
4th Will Eastham
Women
1st Nicola Bunt
2nd Leah Green
3rd Teah Munroe
4th Helen Skelton
James Parry was undone by an interference which lost him first place and Nico collared an 8 pointer on one of his waves for the smallest barrel ever seen which raised a roar from the appreciative crowd.