Elouera Boardriders will enter the 2018 Gromtag Australian Championships as top seeds after winning the Triple Bull Cronulla Gromtag Qualifier at North Cronulla Beach.
In tiny onshore conditions the experienced Elouera team finished ahead of Wollongong’s Scarborough Boardriders with hosts Cronulla Sharks finishing third and south coast’s Southbridge Boardriders fourth.
The under-18s Elouera team of Reiss Young, Nathan Rohr, Jarvis Earle, Blake Sawtell and Maxime Rayer went into the final undefeated after winning their quarter and semi-finals earlier on Saturday.
Elouera came from behind in the final after Scarborough’s Josh Pepper and Darcy DeClouett put the Wollongong club in the lead by six points after two surfers.
Elouera’s third surfer Earle stepped up when needed midway through the final, posting an 8.50 on his first wave and a 3.90 on his powerwave to put Elouera on top. The Dunny Hangers never looked back going on to win by more than 12 points.
Sandon Point Boardriders will be at the top of the reserves list for a spot at the Gromtag Australian Championships. Ulladulla Boardriders will also be hoping for a late call up along with Cronulla’s B team and Jones Beach.
Elouera, Scarborough, Cronulla and Southbridge join Curl Curl, North Shelly, North Avalon, Long Reef, Snapper Rocks, Burleigh Heads, North Shore and D’Bah at the Gromtag Australian Championships to be held at Curl Curl Beach on November 24.
It's been testing conditions at Cronulla where Summer weather patterns are upon us leaving us with tiny wind affected waves since the weekend.
Tuesday morning did give up a southerly pulse if you were ready for it with clean offshores and nice faces to be had up the beach at Wanda where I took todays pics.
The forecast is looking pretty good with a new 3-4ft Nor East swell due today (low tide at 8.30) but be ready because it will only be offshore briefly before the howling easterly does its job.
The swell will slowly drop into the weekend where we have another good 6ft south swell due with sou east winds to push us into next week-so we will have waves but we will also have the wind.
Day 1 of the Hawaiian Pro kicked off yesterday to open the 2018 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing , with overhead sets gracing the lineup at Haleiwa Ali'i Beach Park. The Hawaiian Pro is a World Surf League Men's Qualifying Series 10,000 event and the penultimate competition of the 2018 QS circuit. It is also the first event of three within the triple Crown and will see a winner emerge to take the lead on the prestigious Champion title.
Connor O’Leary is seeded into the third round surfing in heat seven and will use the event as a sounding board for his form going into his career defining contest-the Pipeline Masters, where he has to make the quarters to survive the cut.
Each event of the 2018 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing will run on the four best days of surf within the event's holding window.
Its down to the wire for the 2018 Men's Qualifying Series Rankings-there are two events left for surfers to qualify for next years World Tour and anything can happen.
Unfortunately for our local surfers it isn't going to happen with Connor sitting in 80th position , Shane Campbell at 119th and Jared Hickel at 148th with plenty of good surfers behind them.
Australian Nikki Van Dijk has taken out the 2018 Port Stephens Toyota Pro World Surf League Qualifying Series 6000 event in clean waves yesterday at Birubi Beach.
In the final, Championship Tour competitor Van Dijk came up against young Australian qualification hopeful Macy Callaghan .
Nikki was the surfer to beat all week, building momentum through every heat of every round and the final was no exception taking her second QS6,000 win for the season with a two-wave total of 14.56.
Van Dijk is currently sitting in 10th spot on the Championship Tour Jeep Leaderboard, taking the last qualifying spot for 2019. The result keeps her inside qualification on the QS meaning she is guaranteed to return to the CT in 2019.
last year, 17-year-old Macy Callaghan missed the cut for the CT by one heat but this year the final appearance was enough to put her into 6th place on the QS rankings and put her onto the Women’s WSL Championship Tour as a full-time competitor in 2019.
