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Excellent Surf Conditions Greet Top Surfers For Round 2 Of Corona Open JBay

Corona Open JBay

Excellent Surf Conditions Greet Top Surfers For Round 2 Of Corona Open JBay

Fresh news in from Jarvi…

Supertubes, JBay – The waves at Supertubes in JBay were absolutely perfect for the elimination round 2 of the Corona Open JBay. Four to six-foot lines peeled down the point all day from a10:30 AM start, and were still reeling down perfectly as the sun went down.

There were some radical performances throughout the day, a few upsets and a few surprises. Jadson Andre (Bra) eliminated Kolohe Andino (USA) in what was the biggest upset of the day, and Filipe Toledo (Bra) was the most outstanding surfer of the day with a 10-point ride and a heat total of 19.63.

Jadson Andre © WSL / Kelly Cestari

Eleven times world champion Kelly Slater was injured free surfing Boneyards today and has withdrawn from the event. His injury will give Filipe Toledo a pass through round 3.

An injured Kelly Slater is carried from the water © WSL / Sherman

In another close heat, Leo Fioravanti (ITA) defeated Sebastian Zietz (Haw) in a closely fought encounter. Fioravanti will now face lone South African Jordy Smith in round 3.

Leo Fioravanti © WSL / Tostee

Rookie surfer Ezekiel Lau from Hawaii had a close heat with Brazilian goofy footer Wiggolly Dantes, with the powerful Hawaiian emerging victorious from the exchange after a few powerful barrels through the inside Carpark section.

The forecasts are showing large surf over the next few days, and event organisers are spoiled for choice. Large surf has been called Tuesday 18th, and even larger surf for Thursday 20th.

Filipe Toledo banked the highest score of the day with a heat total of 19.63 © WSL / Tostee

Other happenings at the JBay Winterfest 2017 include the JBay Windfarm MTB Classic, The JBay Loggers Classic, the Endurade JBay X Trail Run, The Oakley X Over, a Kite Festival, the Fishing Skins tournament, a Funduro and more.

More details at www.jbaywinterfest.com

Co-sponsors include Oakley, Kouga Municipality, Vodacom4U and First Choice.

The event hash tag is #jbaywinterfest

The JBay Winterfest social media channels:

Website: www.jbaywinterfest.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/jbaywinterfest????

Twitter: @jbaywinterfest

Instagram: @jbaywinterfest

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Scenes from the Jbay Winterfest 2017

Jbay Winterfest from the beach

Jbay Winterfest 2017

Some scenes taken down at the Jbay Winterfest 2017, last week, by KC Coetzer.. Whilst Jordy battles his way through the field on his quest for a world title. Something he has his sights set squarely on.

The next call for surfing another heat or two at Supers, will be made at 10am this morning.

You can follow the contest here…http://www.worldsurfleague.com/

Scenes from the Jbay Winterfest 2017Corona Open JBayJbay Winterfest from the beach
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Bliksem groot tuna wins at Shelley Beach 2017

Bliksem groot tuna

Bliksem groot tuna wins at Shelley Beach 2017

After an interesting week of fishing, the absolutely magnificent yellow fin tuna caught on Bliksem, took first prize. At the 2017 Mercury Shelley Beach fishing tourney held this past week.

Bliksem groot tunaL Viljoen was the skilled angler who wrestled the magnificent yellowfin tuna to the boat

40.9kg’s May not break the scales in Cape waters, but here in KZN Natal, that is a seriously big yellowfin. Massive actually. The normal tuna we catch here only hang about until they hit about 35kg’s. Making them sexually mature. Which is the point in their lifecycle when these bigger fish hit the tuna lanes out deep. Half way between us and Madagascar and all the way down to Cape Town – on that line. About two hundred miles out.  And become breeding stock. And open season to anyone with a ship!

Overall the fishing wasn’t that great, but as usual it was a well run event with lots of excitement and thrills.

A great fish for a winner!

Thanks to Craig Bell Roberts at The Tackle Box in Shelley Beach, for keeping us up-to-date and for providing the photographs.

Click here for more information on The Tackle Box.

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JBay Winterfest: World Class Surfing Conditions Forecast For JBay

Jordy Smith winning his Round 1 heat scoring a Perfect 10 JBay Winterfest. Smith will trying again at this years JBay Winterfest 2018

JBay Winterfest: World Class Surfing Conditions Forecast For JBay

Supertubes, JBay – The World Surf League (WSL) Commissioner’s Office at the Corona Open JBay have put the contest on hold again today (Friday) as they wait expectantly for what promises to be epic conditions approaching. The surf at Supertubes is contestable today, but the northwest devil wind is making it bumpy and unpleasant.

The country is about to be hit by a strong storm and very cold conditions, with snow forecast in many places, and the resultant weather should see excellent waves make landfall at JBay.

The good surf should start filling in at Supertubes on Saturday afternoon, and the forecast is looking  strong for the rest of next week. Contest officials are watching the swell maps closely and will continue to monitor the approaching storm.

“Three storms will supply a lot of open ocean swell from Sunday to the end of the swell period. At this stage it’s a bit of a challenge to see how much bends into JBay,” said Spike from www.wavescape.co.za. “These storms will bring varied surf conditions all the way through to the end of the waiting period, with the third storm bringing swell with a better direction Friday intoSaturday.”

South African surfers Jordy Smith, Dale Staples and Mikey February are all in the event, and will be competing in the first round when the contest commences.

Two times event champion and currently ranked third in the world, Jordy Smith will hit the water in heat 5 of round one. ©WSL/Kirstin Scholtz

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The cold weather approaching is going to see the Cold Water Swim Classic presented by Nicholas Melck live up to its name. The swim has been part of the JBay Winterfest since the festival’s inception, and this year will be the fifth year this extreme event takes place.

The swim takes place on Sunday 16 July, and the Mile, Double Mile and Triple Mile all start at9:30am. The water will be chilly for the event, and the air temperature for the morning of the event is showing a fresh 11 degrees on the forecast.

Minimum ages on race day apply as follows – 1 Mile (9 years), 2 Mile (12 years). For the 3 Mile, swimmers have to be 14 years or older in the year of the event.

Registrations are open, and more information can be found at www.jbaywinterfest.com

Other happenings at the JBay Winterfest 2017 include the JBay Windfarm MTB Classic, The JBay Loggers Classic, the Endurade JBay X Trail Run, The Oakley X Over, a Kite Festival, the Fishing Skins tournament, a Funduro and more.

More details at www.jbaywinterfest.com

Co-sponsors include Oakley, Kouga Municipality, Vodacom4U and First Choice.

The event hash tag is #jbaywinterfest

The JBay Winterfest social media channels:

Website: www.jbaywinterfest.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/jbaywinterfest????

Twitter: @jbaywinterfest

Instagram: @jbaywinterfest

 

For JBay Winterfest information contact:

Koffie Jacobs

e. koffie@jbaylineup.com

 

Event spokesperson:

Brenton Williams

e. brenton@jbaynews.com

t. 083 549 6795

 

Media enquiries:

Craig Jarvis

e. info@craigjarvis.co.za

t. 082 376 4443

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Mercury Shelly Beach Ski Boat Festival 2017 is ON!

The Mercury Shelley Beach Ski Boat Club comp

Mercury Shelly Beach Ski Boat Festival 2017 is ON!

It’s that busy time of the year again, when teams from all over the country assemble to compete in Shelley Beach. The Mercury Shelly Beach Ski Boat Festival 2017 is ON!

You can read all about it right here…

http://www.shellybeachskiboatclub.co.za/ski%20boat%20festival.htm

We have a few correspondents around the place, and will keep you posted as the event unfolds.

First report in is from Craig at The Tackle Box (https://thesardine.co.za/tackle-box-shelley-beach/) – right close to the Shelley Beach Ski-Boat Club (or more officially The Sonny Evans Small Craft Harbour). Craig reports that yesterday’s leader was Gert Kruggel on the boat Poker Face. They hauled a nice 23.5kg yellowfin to the scales.

Another really good fish reported was a 12.5kg Dorado, and then this nice 19.5kg yellowfin tuna by young Owen Barclay.

Mercury Shelly Beach Ski Boat Festival 2017
Nice at the Mercury Shelly Beach Ski Boat Festival 2017

This morning’s weather was absolutely fantastic, so those leader fish will most certainly be challenged proper this afternoon at the scales.

Stay in touch for news from the Mercury Shelley Beach Ski-Boat Club comp…with the weather gone bad mid-morning, the weigh in for today might have started already!

Thanks to Craig at The Tackle Box right at Shelley Beach, for the news and pics…

 

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