2008 MAGOO CHARITY CLASSIC

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OH MAGOO ... YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN!!!

• Dateline: Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th April
• Place Soldier's Beach - Central Coast - NSW
• Reason: The Annual Magoo Charity Classic
• Well, Huey certainly delivered the goods for the two-day Magoo Charity Classic (yet again)
• Over this two day weekend, a total of 11 divisions were run & won
• This year it was great to see the Ladies out in force
• Saturday started at 7am (on the dot!!) with some great little peaks in the 2-4 foot range
• Weather was great
• Wind remained virtually non-existent
• All the Heats and a few Semi's were run
• Saturday evening at the Beachcomber Hotel saw a big get-together of contestants and friends for the Charity Classic Auction
• Sunday dawned clear with a rise, and change in direction, of swell
• Today's start was to be 8am, but it nearly didn't eventuate, as the gate to the Soldier's Beach Carpark was still locked at 6.45am
• But as with the Saturday start, Sunday started on time
• The remaining Semi's were run 'n won in some great, but shifting conditions
• It was tough going to find a sweet take-off spot, but when you did, you ended up with an absolute cracker
• By the time the Finals rolled around the weather had taken a dramatic change
• A weather front was moving in from down Sydney-way
• When it hit, the ocean turned into a mass of whitewater, making wave (chop) selection very difficult
• The Judge's and Contest Director's tents had to be dismantled before they were blown into the carpark
• It was also a great change to not have heaps of free-surfers encroaching on the contest area
• Overall, they were well-behaved
• Another successful Magoo held in the Aloha Spirit
• This year's Magoo was the first open contest to be run by Mitch Fraser, and I think most people would've agreed that it went really well.

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