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Based in Croyde Bay, North Devon, England, UK - Multiple National Interclub Championship winners.

Surf Bus in North Devon

A bus service with carrying facilities for watersports equipment.

Parents - Are you fed up with driving your kids to the beach?
Drivers - Would you prefer leaving your car at home and save money on parking fees?
Kids - Tired of asking your parents for a lift to the beach?

Get involved and take part in the on-line survey www.northdevon.gov.uk. 5 minutes of your time that’s all we need!

Please complete the survey before 16th January
(on the home page, go to the ‘have your say’ section and click on surf bus)

Steve Mckewan 2009 Results

Rannochan Bombs Out of Open as Cornish interloper takes the McEwan!

With many of the regular competitors sidelined due to illness, hangovers, work commitments or nappy-changing duties, the door was wide open for Scott Rannochan to mount a strong challenge at the 2009 Steve McEwan Memorial trophy at Croyde this weekend.

But the self-styled “bad-boy of Downend” had a shocker in his first round heat and was taken down in the rippy 3ft cross-shore waves. It was left to finalists Lyndon Wake, Charley Charlesworth and Simon Daly, to prevent a surprise wild-card entry from Kernow from carrying away the cup. Jack Smith from Liskeard, recently back from a career threatening knee injury, had been eyeing up the contest site from a rooftop perch at Baggy Point all week. “ I knew that there was a massive party going on on Friday night and if I turned up on Saturday morning there would be a chance of getting through a heat or 2!” he enthused. “ but I never dreamed I’d actually win it… to win at Croyde in front of such a huge crowd and with the eyes of the world’s surf media trained on the event… well it is just really special”.

Lyndon Wake pulled off some radical moves during the final and Charlesworth and Daly put in gritty performances, but somehow Smith clinched the trophy, despite the best efforts of Rannochan (who channelled his frustration into a fine attempt at sabotage, by pulling into barrels and launching 360airs through the middle of the contest area) and the Judges,. who tried desperately to manipulate the scores after the event.

In the Ladies’, experienced local Andrea Lawrence was tipped to dominate, and her powerful top-to-bottom turns in the semis did nothing to dispel the expectation- but a stacked final with top Juniors Laura Crane and Lucy Campbell, soon to represent Britain at the Worlds in New Zealand, proved a tough challenge, and Laura eventually came out on top with Lucy close behind. Harriet Knight took 4th.

The Juniors was well attended as usual- and with prizes for u-16 boys and girls up for grabs the competition was fierce. Notable absences included Beau Bromham and Zak Lawton which made for even more frantic efforts by the groms to stake a claim for glory. But despite a brave challenge from “Mad” Max Pechonis (wearing his trademark 1mm shorty) and some hard charging from Drew Warren and Jack Hough, it was Alex Gibson who took the win- building on his impressive series of results through this season.

The u-16 girls was equally hard fought, with the Knight Sisters ganging-up on Laura and Lucy in a blatant use of the priority rules to prevent the top seeds from catching any waves. Jemima took the win, with Lucy second, Harriet 3rd and Laura 4th.

With some of the super groms attending it was decided to run an u-10s shoot-out which resulted in an epic battle between Charlie Crane and Garin Clay, Garin taking the win by the narrowest of margins.

Well done & thanks to all who took part… last comp of the season and without you it wouldn’t be a club- so good on yer all for paddling out in crappy December conditions… and big thanks to Isabelle & Emma for feeding everyone all day, Martin for lugging the shelters around and all you seniors who sat through judging the juniors before the open.

RESULTS:

Super Groms 1st Garin Clay, 2nd Charlie Crane

U-16 Girls 1st Jemima Knight, 2nd Lucy Campbell, 3rd Harriet Knight, 4th Laura Crane

u-16 Boys 1st Alex Gibson, 2nd Jack Hough, 3rd Drew Warren, 4th Max\Pechonis

Ladies 1st Laura Crane, 2nd Lucy Campbell, 3rd Andrea Lawrence, 4th Harriet Knight

Open, 1st Jack Smith, 2nd Lyndon Wake, 3rd Charlie Charlesworth, 4th Simon Daly

Fund Raising Events

As a result of last nights meeting there could be exciting opportunities ahead. To prepare us and to facilitate these developments CSC will have to embark on a series of fund raising events. One idea is to design a t-shirt for CSC incorporating the CSC motif and logo. The prize is the designer will get all the credit! The club gets the cash! Anything goes, humorous, childish, minimalist or out there! Closing date is the CSC AGM

BSA AGM

The BSA AGM is to be held at Croyde Village Hall on the Saturday 12th December at 7.00pm. All welcome.

Grom Coaching Sessions

Please note that the grom coaching sessions, hosted by Surf South West, will no longer run for the winter period. The sessions are already booked in to resume end of March '10. Exact dates will be posted up on the CSC site in due course nearer the time. These sessions will involve video analysis and will be something to look forward to.

Croyde Surf Club AGM

The AGM is to be held 23rd January at the coach house The Manor, Croyde. The reason to post this up in good time is for any or potential members to think about joining an active, energetic and a visionary committee! The posts to be elected for including several new positions will be displayed in due time.