Boardriders begins at home beach, now set for Treachery
As the Scarborough Boardriders Club heads off on its annual weekend away at the North Coast beach, contest director Ian Pepper reports on a great start to the year
We started the year off nicely on Sunday, 1 February with our club’s junior divisions blessed with some fun waves at our home base – Scarborough Beach.
Congrats to our winners: Noah Kornek, Austin Wilson, Indi Martin, Ari O’Connor and Charlie Gooch, who each picked up a dinner voucher from our sponsor, Headlands Hotel Austinmer.
Also congrats to Ruby Forbes who surfed amazingly well and was awarded the Micro Award and voucher from Banabae Thirroul.
The following Sunday, we had classic small-wave surfing for our senior divisions at Scarborough Beach (car park!). Glassy conditions were on offer all day and some epic surfing was shown across all the divisions on a declining swell.
Congratulations to Shyla Short who won the Open women’s final and Fin McLaren who won our A grade. There were a few newcomers to A-grade this year with young surfers graduating from the 18s and B Grade. Still technically a junior, Ashton Mekisic came out of the blocks flying, literally, to take out 2nd spot in his first A Grade final. Definitely one to watch!
March is a busy month: Pointscore on March 1, Australian Boardriders Battle National Final at Burleigh Heads, QLD on March 7 and 8, and then Treachery on 15 March, and Kirra Teams (Senior) from March 27 to 29.
