GPS-SPEED windsurf and kitesurf TEAM

Farrel O'Shea - Farrel has been windsurfing at the highest level for many years. Farrel heads a succesful business selling boards and clothing osheasurf.com

Currently Farrel is the UK's 2nd fastest GPS sailor of all time (one place under Dave White) . Farrel's current average GPS published speed is 45.8 knots with a max 2 second of 47.68 knots !!

Farrel's current GPS speeds

Steve Thorp - Steve doesn't really need any introduction. Steve is consistently one of the top 3 speedsailors in the UK. Not only a world stage speed sailor Steve is also a hard core wave sailor

Steve's current GPS best is an amazing 50.1 knots

Steve's current GPS speeds

Steve also has some great GT31 set up advice here

website

stevethorp.co.uk

wavejam.co.uk

Tristan Haskins : (43.54 knots max - 250m @ 42.2 knots)

Tristan sails a Starboard iSonic Speed 44 / 49 with Tushingham X15 (4.6 / 5.2 and 5.8) when speed sailing, but also managed a fairly respectable 32 knots on his RRD wave slalom with Severne Blade 4.2 wave sail...

Tris Haskins latest PB's on GPS-SPEEDSURFING.com

(possible Wells Next Sea location ??)

Pete Young : Pete just seems to be getting quicker and quicker. He stormed to victory in Weymouth to become UKWA British speed champion 2008 !

Pete's GPS best speed is a superb 47.77 knots (2s) and 44.85 knots (5 x 10s average)

Click here for Pete's latest sessions Pete Young Speedsurfing

Adam Gustafsson - Adam is one of a few hard core UK windsurfers who will travel the length and breadth of the country to get in some speedsurfing.

Currently Adam is one of the UK's top 10 speedsurfers with top speeds in excess of 42.3 knots ~ (48.6mph)

OTC UK Become Partners of GPS-Speed.co.uk

We are pleased to announce that the UK centre (Portland harbour, Weymouth) will soon be stocking the Genie GT-31 - the GPS logger exclusively used by Weymouth Speed Week. The GPS device will allow their UK clients to now accurately compare the speeds of the boards and sails that they try, and the data of their session on the water can also be downloaded into our OTC test database. To find out more infomation about the OTC, please visit them here : OTC Weymouth website

DAVE WILLIAMS - the official UK outright 500m record ratified by the WSSRC at 44.78 knots.

Dave's best GPS 10 second average speed is 46.23 knots with a peek of 50.1 knots on the display of the GT31.

Not content with this.. Dave has now tried windsurfing and reached speeds over 41 knots on his first session !!!! Watch this space ...

PS - we should add that Dave has know achieved a 40.27 knot average on a WINDSURFER !!

Axbridge Animals T15 Group have an ex- terrestrial advantage

The T15 coaches for Axbridge Animals at their reservoir near Bristol have been using Navi GPS devices to hone the racing skills of the race team. Most windsurfers would know these units for measuring speed but they are useful in so many other ways for racing.

Click here for more details - Axbridge Animals T15 Windsurf Group

midwestspeedquest.com

Highly recommended website - click to join

This website obviously is all about speed on the water, but even more so about fun. With the help of modern day handhelds we can store a sailing day in a GPS and extract the speeds we sailed all day. This website is focussing on maximum speeds over different distances.

They've got more and more members from all over the world and in 2008 they started a cooperation with the ISWC and PKRA, the professional speedsurfers and kitesurfers association. On a daily base many riders from all over the world are posting windsurf and kitesurf sessions. They ’ve got a minimum number of rules to ensure fair races and we’re proud to say up till now we didn’t have a single rider that willingly posted falsified speeds. Timekeepers are installed to ensure fair races.