2013 LAYBACK WINTER CLASSIC!
Well, guys, our Winter Classic all round, was a very successful event I thought, we had clean contestable waves all day, a lunch time low tide, light west winds tending a little north west late in the day, but still very clean faces and plenty of waves per heat to go around.
A big thank you to many people, starting with all the guys who were there at 5.45am to help get set up, there would have been at least 15 guys there early, 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 assisted with the presentation for us also. Ian Onlay produced another great booklet hand out for all the contestants,and added to the credibility of the Contest, thank you Ian.
Our food tent had many workers with Maggie, Christine, Julie, Kellie Georgia, Brooke,Alana,& Ethan were there all day, Georgia must have made a thousand cups of coffee, that was kindly supplied By Tyse, and others helped out also during the day, a lot of beautiful cakes, muffins etc, were made and donated by June Armstrong and Donny Jefferies, Donny also supping jars of Honey to all the finalists, thank you to all concerned!
The Barby was ably cooked by Baz, Ronni, Wolfe, Greg Nicholls, Andrew Farrow, 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, There were a lot of 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, hope fully 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, currently we have 20 people attending and 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.