After a thirty minute catch up and stuffing around putting up the tent, the comp started – man on man heats and it was on for young and old. ‘Send out the women first’ was the cry (not really there was a very democratic way of drawing up the heats – pick a number between 1 and 7).  Jackie was pegged against El President – Scotty Wakefield and Jackie came up trumps (must have been the new Croc Gum Boots). Eric and Rob had the next heat with Eric taking the colours and Gus and Richard with heat three – Richie who belies his age pipped Gus.  Round 2 saw the winners Jackie, Eric and Richard stepping up the heat with Jackied winning with Eric 2^nd and Richard 3.  Jackie and Eric went straight to the final.  In the minor heat Scott and Rob sent Gus to cooking duties (firing up the Barbie). with Scott and Rob meeting up with Richard. Unfortunately for Rob he swallowed a ‘truck load’ of seaweed, strained his back and couldn’t quite string his normal style together; which had  him sitting out the final.

A five minute break between Vets and Open saw Richard and Eric get some quick fix energy as the swell was increasing and the wind had swung north west (still on-shore) and the tide was dropping exposing some Cottesloe Rock (reef and capstone).  The final was a case of ‘clean face scores”.  As usual wave magnet Richie Croome took off on a huge wave only to find that it faded to nothing.  Jackied whose ski became air borne on a couple of occasions found clean faces and continued on as she had previously done in the preliminary heats.  Eric and Scott found themselves in no-mans land for about half the heat as the waves were very inconsistent and all over the place.  Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the final siren went. Final places saw Jackie first followed by Richie, with Scott and Eric picking up the minor places.