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2007 CENTRAL COAST OPEN

ABOUT TO BE RENAMED THE MITCH FRASER BENEFIT CLASSIC

 credit to www.australianlongboarding.com

• Arrived at Avoca around 6am

• Tent City all up & running by 7am

• The Drawer Sheet said that the conditions would be classified as Multiple Random - Boy, was that an understatement

• Total of eleven divisions were run

• Around 110 competitors

• First Heats in the water paddled into some fairly chunderous waves

• Big Rips and Uneven Faces

• I think it was a Nor-Easter that was blowing the crap out of the waves

• Whatever it was, it was sure making a mess

• The day slowly improved before falling foul of the wind again

• Around 27-heats were knocked over, including all First Heats and most of the Semis

Day Two

• Same spot, but slightly bigger conditions

• T'was a big beach day indeed

• Our comp was on half-way down the beach, the Avoca Boardriders had their pointscore out on the Point, whilst the local Life Saving Club was holding their Nippers Day up & down the entire beach.

• Just love the smell of 2-stroke in the morning

• Over the weekend in general, it was a bit tough getting the free-surfers out of the area, but when competitors started free-surfing in the comp area, it became a bit ludicrous.

• Mix them with the goose on the Jet-Ski whizzing in & out with the Nippers and things were getting a little crowded

• Wind stayed off-shore for quite a while, before eventually swinging to the nor-east again

• The last of the Semis were finished off before the Finals got underway around 10am

• The Women's Final held towards the end of the day saw some true overhead sets rolling through

• The girls took them on and were a fine example of the talent amongst our fairer sex

• There was a brief period during the day when the waves were actually looking good, but these conditions were soon replaced by sand-filled close-outs

• Where there was once a channel on the in-coming tide, soon became a sandbar fit for snapping boards

• A couple of boards suffered the ultimate fate of either being snapped in half or having a fatal crease compliments of some pretty heavy waves

• The potential name-change was brought about by the fact that Mitch Fraser won all three of the Divisions he contested

  • Open

  • Under-21

  • 8-foot

  • On top of that, he won the Nose-Riding Award

• As in the past years, this comp was well run and well patronised

• Professional Judges made it an easy weekend for all the competitors to go off and enjoy a bit of a free-surf (out of the comp area, of course)

Results