Culburra Beach Boardriders Club took out the 2018 nudie Australian Boardriders Battle final on Sunday but Elouera were not left disappointed, finishing seventh in the national teams event.
In big, pumping waves at Newcastle Beach, it was a family affair as Mikey and Tyler Wright teamed up with Jordin and Ty Watson along with Jordan Dank for Culburra to take the ultimate bragging rights in Australian club surfing.
Mikey Wright was the star for Culburra taking out three skins heats then finding the winning wave in the final. He was also awarded the prestigious Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew medal for being the best performer.
Elouera’s five person team is the best combination to come out of the Surfing Sutherland Shire talent pool for 25 years with three surfers currently ranked in the top 60 in the world.
Connor O’Leary, Shane Campbell and Jared Hickel are Elouera’s big three and they dominated their team heats pushing the “Dunnies” into second place overall in the prestigious teams event.
O’Leary was the highest placed CT surfer at the event doing big turns in the biggest waves but he couldn't get over the line to win a skins heat being beaten twice on competitor’s last waves.
“Everybody did their job,” Elouera team manager Glen Pringle said.
“The Boardriders Battle is all about being a team player.”
Big surf forced organisers to cancel the juniors and womens events with a duty of care on Sunday morning.
As Tropical Cyclone Gita continues to churn out large, long period groundswell in the direction of Merewether, Cronulla’s three WQS surfers seasons really start this week with the Burton Automotive Men’s Pro beginning at Newcastle's annual Surfest.
With the Manly Vissla Sydney Surf Pro, there are two WSL Qualifying Series (QS) 6000 events to be run over the next two weeks and they will set the pace for the 2018 qualification race in what is forecasted to be incredible surf.
So everyone else on Australia’s north east coast got pumping waves but Cronulla surfers missed out as the big Nor East swell swept passed on the weekend and arrived with a 30 knot Southerly on Tuesday-Skunked I call it.
Conditions this morning look like it did yesterday but the wind has backed right off and bank conditions should improve as the tide comes in.
Swellnet forecasts it to ease into tomorrow as Cyclone Gita moves away before giving rise to a brief flush of new south groundswell as we progress into Thursday.
This should provide good 5ft sets across south facing beaches into Thursday afternoon,with light winds and good swell on Friday, before leaving the weekend with a mixed bag of small Nor East and South swells.
I took todays pics at Cronulla Point and a few at the Alley on Monday on the high tide.
A lay-day was called at The 2018 Burton Automotive Pro on Day 2 of competition yesterday. Strong onshore winds and rough seas meant that after one heat of Women's Round 1, the competition went on hold and was later called off for the day with conditions deteriorating further.
Our boys will be surfing soon,but with less than a week until the Sydney Women’s Pro hits Manly, some of the world’s best female surfers are preparing in Newcastle for the Sydney WSL Qualifying Series 6000 event.
With valuable QS rankings points up for grabs, Manly will become the epicentre of world surfing for Sydney’s biggest surfing event and it will be definitely worth going over for.
Finally happy birthday to the original Rock and Roll surfer Gary Quinton Hughes -a Cronulla surfing legend through and through-still charging 20 ft waves at 60!
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