Brisbane Blokart Club

Australian Blokart Open to be held on the 6th, 7th & 8th of March 2009 at Rydges Capricorn Resort Yeppoon, Qld.

Cost is approx. $100 for 3 days competition, insurance and buffet dinner Saturday night at Rydges. Discounted accom. rates at Rydges Hotel.

Further info on Blokart Australia site.

photo of linup at 2007 event

Well, boys and girls. Time to start planning for the next exciting event....

So who is coming to Yeppoon?? We have applied for hols to drive up on Wednesday and back on the Monday. That will give us Thursday as a practice day and racing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

We were thinking of camping rather than the hotel (funds will only stretch so far). Anyone else coming up from BBKC??

I will be going to Yeppoon and the new plan for house holiday is OK with me. I'll book my holidays with work for Wednesday 4th to Tuesday 10th.

Do you have any suggestions about combined travel arrangements, or is anyone flying up and need equipment taken by road?

I can either go solo taking the bike/trailer or the ute/trailer and have room for 3 passengers/karts or travel with someone else who has a towbar.

Hard to believe it's less than 2 months away, how time flies when you're having fun while Blokarting...

Cheers Brett

Houses have now been finalised and are:-

25 Kiama Ave - checkin Wednesday 4 March for 5 nights:-
* Bedroom 1 - Queen bed - Andrew and Christine
* Bedroom 2 - 2 x single beds - Mason and Georgina
* Bedroom 3 - 1 x king single - Brett
* Bedroom 4 (downstairs) - Bernard and Judy
* Rumpus room (downstairs) with double and rollaway - Cameron Moore and Melody + Karah

45 Kiama Ave - Checkin Monday 2 March for 7 nights:-
* Bedroom 1 - Double room - Dave and Ruth Moore
* Bedroom 2 - Tribunk - Peter and Jacqui + Nicholas
* Bedroom 3 - John Shorthouse + wife + 2 friends
* Rollaway in Rumpus - Paul Day

We are all checking out Monday so Brett are you stopping halfway home?? We were thinking of taking trailer with the blokarts if you want to come with us Brett??

Everyone done forgot to fill in your forms and register.

That accomodation looks great, thanks for going to all that trouble for us and it is very much appreciated.

As for travel, I will take you up on the shared ride. What trailer are you referring to and how much room will be in it?


Cheers Brett

T-shirts are now being organised and will be available in only limited number so get in early and pre-order. Only $25 . Please send me a message if you want to secure your special memento of the weekend.

20% of the tshirts have now been SOLD and all within 24hrs of being released. This means get your order in NOW if you want to secure one of these great shirts!!

If anyone is still looking for accommodation we have had a cancellation. We have a house only a few kms from Rydges which is beachfront so should be able to sail to and from the races.

There is a single bed available in a twin share room from Wednesday 4 March for five night due to a late cancellation. Only $100 for all five nights (or part thereof). Let me know if interested and I can send more details, photos, et

With only a couple of days to go before we head up to Yeppoon for BBKC's first attempt at a tiltes competition things are coming together nicely. The travel plans are set, the accommodation is waiting and the BBKC team will do their best for SE Qld.
We have a couple of Performance classes covered and both Production classes will have representation.
Judy, Bernie, Andrew, Lee and myself from Brisbane with Phil and the Gold Coast boys will be flying the banner for the club and personally trying for the Champions Title.

Wish us good fortune and a steady wind for three days please. And good luck to all invovled.

Breeze on
Brett

We're back safe and sound after Cyclone Hamish started to hunt us off the beach, in fact it cost us Sundays racing because insurance didn't cover fools on a beach in a cyclone. Funny that

Judy (daisygirl), Bernie (nardy), Andrew (andy pandy), Brett (red sails), Lee (ghost who sails) and Cameron (green goblin) of CQBC spent 'Cyclone Sunday' doing 16km runs up and down the beach in the morning. After lunch we set up our own 500m course in front of the houses and did 5 lap races with time delayed starts which ended very close and saw Lee snapping a pulley whip.

Great event, lots of new people to meet and so much fun racing. The Saturday night dinner was fantastic, worth every cent and plenty of dancing thrown in if you weren't too tired from racing. I hosted the hand over of the State of Origin Cup from CQBC founder, Dave Moore to BBKC Madam President, Judy. The trophy will be kept in Brisbane till the next SoO later in the year.
We auctioned off a Paul Beckett signed Tee Shirt for $180, but unfortunately NSW won it and now have Paul promising to sail for them at SoO as well.

Good and not so good results because of the unknown quanity of racing, but all have made BBKC proud. A special congrats goes to our 'Ghost who Sails' pilot, Lee Griffin for a 3rd place in Production Heavyweight. (We may see him back in the saddle again at club outings...)

Our accomodation was top notch 5 star and the group dinners were yummy and a great place to sit down to discuss tactics and next day racing.

Our trans Tasman friends took a lot of the trophies back to Nu Zulland as they were fiercely competitive and had a load more race experience. There were some shining talents from Qld, NSW, Vic and WA which will make the Australian Nationals an event not to miss.

Check out photos and videos on the Hunter Landsailing website from John Shorthouse (Blokam, funny name ) as he was wearing sunglasses with a video camera built-in. Amazing gizmo.

Breeze on
Brett