BIG Congrats to Nina on a podium finish. That's a Top Ten day for sure  

Yes well done Nina!

Nice NM in those conditions.

So the slalom clinic did some good?

Great to meet you Nina and Peter was fun racing with you Nina and a great night at the lobster shack.

Congratulations Nina.Great writeup  Peter.

Looks like Nina placed 3rd in the races, too, but they did not score her in any race. Instead, they gave me results for race 3 and 4, which I did not sail since I did not have a smaller board than the 112. It's quite possible that all the results they show in my name (42, 47, 38, and 44) are actually Nina's results, in which case she would have been 2nd in the Women's class with 124 points after one discard.

Apparently, using "N" as the sail number for Nina and "NI" for me was too confusing for the judges. We did this since we are sharing sails, and did not know in advance which sails we'd use for the races; adding an "I" to the "N" is something that was easy enough to do. But we had registered and signed in with these numbers, and they were clearly visible on the sails with full-size letters.

Bugger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least Nina knows she did well, (as do we), even though it wasn't recognised

Peter a nice shot of you either pulling up the board on the finish line or about to go into the drink

Boz, judging by the water colors and my "stance", it's into the drink! Congrats to your second place, well done!

Mike, bugger indeed. Having run a bunch of events ourselves, we understand that mistakes can happen. A proper apology would have gone a long way to smooth things out, but the response to a private messages was rather on the nasty side, with things like "misinformed data", "no number no result", "it does not affect the results", and so on. Nina is so demotivated by this that she won't do the event here in Lancelin or any other event in Oz. 

Here's an image where Nina is two spots ahead of me at a jibe mark. 

Guys, dont be demotivated! Be motivated to get on the podium as No1!

You know how you sailed and thats most important thing!

Well done for all of your WA sessions, what a cracker holiday!

Cervantes report at https://boardsurfr.blogspot.com/2019/01/cervantes-windsurf-challenge.html

So sad for Nina. Clearly she is a top sailor, and I was surprised not to see her in the podium photos for the racing. 

After all the efforts Issac put into promotion of the event I ams surprised a bit more was not done to sort this out or placate you.

Nina, I am so sorry this has soured your experience in WA.

Learn from it and differentiate your sail numbers better for the next event so it doesn't happen again. I can see that from a distance N and NI may be difficult to differentiate. If you look at that photo above they do look very similar, one looks like a blurry version of the other. N and NX would be just as simple to do but easier to see.

Nina, you must do the Lancelin Ocean Classic while you are here. It is one of the world's great windsurfing events. Even to finish is a feather in your cap.

Champions put their negative experiences behind them and use them as extra motivation to prove themselves in the next event

I hope to meet you in Lancelin!

Sorry to hear that Nina. It must be so frustrating.

Thanks for your kind comments, they are very much appreciated. RIght now, it does not look like Nina will do the Lancelin Ocean Classic, which is a bummer. I had not planned to do it, but she's a much better windsurfer than I am (and would be able to get going on the gear we have if the start is again in very light wind). We hope to meet you too, Anita. Meeting lots of speedsurfers from Oz has been a highlight of the trip already! 

I am very sorry to hear of the mix up and disappointed in the race organisers response. 

A huge congratulations to Nina for the results we all know she got though. 

Try to forget it and enjoy the sailing. 

Peter you are right Nina  was 2 spots ahead of you in that pic and ahead of me (ka72);and my son to the far right of this pic but I over took Nina in this race and  the last 2r races just on the straights and we  both had a laugh about it at the finish. Was a fun day. I haven't slalom races for 15 odd years so let everyone go before me including Nina, Jo and of course Karin who charged ahead of all of us.