2014 LAYBACK WINTER CLASSIC!
Well, guys, our Winter Classic all round, was a very successful event I thought, we had some very testing conditions during the day with gale force winds, and on occasions some very contestable waves also when the winds eased off at times, a lunch time high tide, made waves not a plenty, but enough to just go around mostly!
A big thank you to many people, starting with all the guys who were there at 5.45am to help get set up, great work guys, made the 7.00am start time very comfortable, with 3 tents set up also. The check in was manned by John Young & George, as they do most years, our head judge was Hendo, who always does a wonderful committed job in that role, watches every score put down all day, and that guarantees absolutely a fair judging panel all day, great work mate, and along with Maggie & Georgia designed and organised the t-shirts for us, thank you guys!
Our tallying was carried out by Steve Pennington, very kind of Steve to do that for us, a real quiet achiever someone we all respect very much.
All the trophies were donated and made by club members, 37 in total, not a bad effort by anyone’s standards, very generous of everyone. The PA, was run all day by Andrew and Mal Robbo, who with Andy, assisted with the presentation for us also.
Our food tent saw Mark Harris there all day assisted by others including Kellie, there were many cups of coffee made during the day, that was kindly supplied By Tyse, the muffins were supplied by Donny along with his jars of honey for each finalist great work mate.
The Barby was ably cooked by Baz, Dave, Greg just to name a few, thank you to all the guys who helped out with the cooking, and organising of the food Mark Harris, Dale, and Mark Gordon.
There were guys who stayed all day helping out, who were not even surfing, that really shows strong commitment to the club.
At the presentation I highlighted the wonderful efforts and commitment the committee had put into making the Classic such a success, and how valuable all our loyal sponsors’ have been for many years, and to appreciate newer sponsors also, hopefully they all choose to remain sponsors for many years to come, and see value for their business in supporting the Layback Club, and the Classic!
Do not forget to purchase your presentation tickets from Mark Harris, there will be no purchasing of tickets on the night, we have a great band organised, buffet meal and there will be plenty of generous giveaway prizes on the night, so do not miss out, get your tickets from Mark now, so we can organise catering numbers.
See you at the presentation,
Kind regards,
Bill.