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PostPosted: 21 Feb 2017, 21:36 
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Hi All,

The Newhaven boat competition is planned for the upcoming Sunday (26/02).

Please comment on this thread if you have a boat / are in need of a boat ride. There will be the option of shore based dive for the competitors that aren't able to get a boat ride.

The competition will start from the Newhaven boat ramp (unless indicated otherwise) located at Phillip Island (just past the bridge).

The dive conveyor will post on the Thursday prior to the competition in regards to the conditions and whether it will be safe / dive worthy on the day.


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PostPosted: 22 Feb 2017, 20:57 
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PostPosted: 23 Feb 2017, 16:48 
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Hi All,

Due to the forecast for conditions this weekend, the dive convener has made the call to the call the competition OFF.
We will attempt to hold the competition next weekend.

The call will be made next Thursday (02/03) and updates will be posted below.

Thank you for your patience.


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PostPosted: 23 Feb 2017, 18:22 
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PostPosted: 28 Feb 2017, 10:42 
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Hi All,

Due to rough conditions last weekend, the Newhaven boat competition is planned for the upcoming Sunday (05/03).
Hopefully the conditions are a lot better this coming weekend.

The dive conveyor will post on Thursday night prior to the competition in regards to the conditions and whether it will be safe / dive worthy on the day.

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PostPosted: 02 Mar 2017, 19:36 
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Hi All,

The newhaven boat competition that was planned for this weekend has been called OFF. This is due to unfavourable conditions. The dive conveynor also took into account the upcoming state titles that are planned in the region for next weekend.


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PostPosted: 13 Mar 2017, 09:16 
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Newhaven Boat Comp next weekend? The Island was sensational for the Vic Titles, it may just last!


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PostPosted: 20 Mar 2017, 12:55 
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Hi All,

As we have 2 competitions to catch up, we have decided to plan for the Newhaven boat competition to be run on the upcoming Sunday (26/03).

Saturday is a option/backup if the conditions are not safe for diving on the Sunday.

The competition will start from the Newhaven boat ramp (unless indicated otherwise) located at Phillip Island (just past the bridge).
Please comment on this thread if you have a boat / are in need of a boat ride. There will be the option of shore based dive for the competitors that aren't able to get a boat ride.

The dive conveyor will post on the Thursday prior to the competition in regards to the conditions and whether it will be safe / dive worthy on the day.


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PostPosted: 21 Mar 2017, 09:45 
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Scott Kelly (ned81) is looking for a boat ride for this comp. If anyone has a free spot for him please post up here.

Thanks :)


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PostPosted: 21 Mar 2017, 12:48 
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PostPosted: 23 Mar 2017, 14:51 
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Hi All,

With favorable conditions for this weekend, the Newhaven Boat Comp has been called ON for Sunday (26/03).

The competition will start at 9am with sign off finishing at 3.00 back at the ramp.
Late returners will be disqualified. For all competition rules, please refer to the competitions section of the forum.

Sign on for this comp will finish at 8.30am.
Please bring your entry forms filled out with the correct money ( $15 and $5 Junior). (Forms from me will be $5 each).

For boat owners, it is recommended that you arrive early to beat the rush at the boat ramp.

A safety check will be performed to ensure all divers have the required safety equipment.
There are plenty of safe shore dives available for those without a boat ride.

Comp is open to all AUF members however SFD membership is required to score points for the Southern Freedivers club aggregate.

Look forward to seeing you all on Sunday!


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PostPosted: 23 Mar 2017, 19:34 
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PostPosted: 27 Mar 2017, 17:08 
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Hi All,

See below for the write up of the comp over the weekend. This was written by Pete Thompson and edited by myself. Thanks Pete for taking the time to do this.

After beingt initially postponed, the Newhaven Boat Comp took place on Sunday with 18 senior and 3 junior divers signing on. There were also a few social divers that didn’t compete. Most divers competed from boats and there were 4 jetski’s amongst the pack. This is the favourite competition for many members and historically has produced winning bags of 20 or more species, and with recent reports of tuna and kingfish landed, the anticipation was high. The swell was forecast to be 3ft but with very light winds around 5 knots, good enough to get to most of the regular spots in a fast boat or ski. The start was a bit chaotic, but at 9am everyone took off in a race to their favourite spots.

The swell on the ocean side was OK, but enough to make it uncomfortable diving, and visibility down to 5 or 6m and no sunshine. Most boats tried the Cape Woolamai bays first, some headed further west towards Pyramid Rock or further out to check some bommies for kingies and ended up playing with dolphins. Some went as far west as Kitty Miller Bay and others went as far west as Kilcunda. Stoj, Scotty and I stayed around Woolamai and steadily ticked a few reef fish of the list, but nothing much other than maggies, wrasse, zebs, jackets and sweep were seen. After a few hours, we took off and found some calmer water which had a sand-reef line in about 8m depth. Fitzy was just leaving and said there wasn’t much there so we knew it would be good. The reef here had a few more species, and we saw some occasional salmon, snook and a school of trevally also. Time got away from us and instead of being back in the carpark an hour early as usual, we had only enough time for a 10-minute dive at the last spot to try and find a flathead.
Back at the ramp before 3pm sign-off, except for one boat which was 11 minutes late due to a faulty watch and unfortunately disqualified – some good fish on board too.

The barbeque and weigh-in started spectacularly with a barbeque set alight by a leaky gas can which was installed by yours truly. We then reverted to the municipal barbeques which cook snags in 45 minutes but never burn them. Thanks Joseph for the hamburger patties.

Plenty of good bags were weighed in, and some nice fish including 745gm sand flathead (Geoff G), a 1615gm rock flathead (Russell), a 3.4kg snook (Fitzy) and a 1375gm black drummer (Fitzy). Some species just don’t like the swell (my theory) and just weren’t easy to find on the day. Murray not only took out the race to the heads in the morning, but once again took out the comp with 17 species. Many of which the rest of us never saw all day! Well done to Marcus who logged 13 species and all the juniors doing well on the day. After Murray and Marcus, Fitzy and Watto had the next highest number of species respectively.

If I hadn’t missed that salmon and if the zeb had been a bit bigger and if I’d looked harder for a whiting I might have had a decent score, but I had to settle for 7 species. Apparently the viz was 10m over at Kilcunda, maybe we should have gone there.

It was good to see Pete and Mac Riddle make the trek over from port fairy and was good to see Bob come down to the comp too!

Scores are still to be finalised and will be posted up when completed. Thanks to all that helped with organising the day and made it an enjoyable Sunday.

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PostPosted: 27 Mar 2017, 19:24 
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NEWHAVEN BOAT COMP RESULTS

Murray Petersen-17species-1943.15pts-100%
Marcus Dorfstatter-13species-1496.55pts-77.00%
Mac Riddle-11species-1304.35pts-67.12%-DSQ-LATE
Alan Fitzsimmons-11species-1245.20pts-64.08%
Bob Manning-10species-1098.40pts-56.52%-DSQ-LATE
Nathan Watson-9species-995.85pts-51.24%
Paul Dorfstatter-9species-983.65pts-50.62%
Scott Kelly-8species-907.30pts-46.69%
Jeff Feng-8species-904.75pts-46.56%
Steven Xu-8species-882.60pts-45.42%
Joseph Bednarek-7species-780.35pts-40.15%
Pete Thompson-7species-768.50pts-39.53%
Jarvis Espie-7species-750.10pts-38.60%
Adem Temel-6species-676.80pts-34.83%
Spencer Gubbins-6species-660.90pts-34.01%
Geoff Gannon-6 species-649.40pts-33.41%
Stoj Pavlovski-4species-433.45pts-22.30%
Brendan Waller-4species-424.05pts-21.82%
Carly Annells-2species-210.90pts-10.85%

thanks to all that attended and thanks to Murray for helping with the weigh in.


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PostPosted: 28 Mar 2017, 10:39 
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A big thanks to Murray and Brett for staying back to wash all the fish slime and bits from the weigh in area to leave the area clean!
Also thanks to Pete Thompson and Carly for cleaning the BBQ area.


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