PRESCIENT OCEANA CLIFTON CHALLENGE 2025
If you are racing The Ocean Clifton Challenge on Sunday 9th Feb 2025, please note:
🔹 Reg.: 7:45 – 8:45
🔹 Briefing : 8:30
🔹 Start: 9 am for everyone
🔹 Race numbers will be provided at reg
🔹 *NO PARKING* inside the club, you can drop your craft and park outside in the street or the nearby parking garage
🔹 Please place your craft left side of the slipway facing the sea. Keep the right side clear for ski boat launching.
🔹 *NB NB NB* – have a great paddle and a ton of fun.
The Atlantic seaboard is a great place to paddle, in the wind shadow of Table Mountain and Signal hill. This patch of ocean is full of life with resident Haveside dolphins, seals and even the bizarre looking sun fish. Whales are a regular visitor year round.
The race has 2 course options.
Long Course
This 16km route starts at Oceana and heads parallel with the coast to Clifton 4th beach, perhaps the most beautiful beach in SA and home to our co – organisers Clifton LSC. Paddlers will run onto the beach, around a flag and head back to Oceana via Fisherman’s Rock and Barkers Rock. The prevailing SW ground swell means there is always something to chase on the way home. Finish is back at Oceana.
Short Course
Traditionally this has been a 6km race from Oceana to 3 Anchor bay and back. The organising team is playing with other options to add more “spice” to the short course. The likely outcome will be a triangular multi lap course in Granger Bay similar to the very successful Seadog series in Fish Hoek. This makes for great racing and is brilliant for spectators to watch the action unfold.
HOW TO ENTER
For CSA paddlers please enter though CSA on the Canoeing South Africa website. Use the red button below to click through to the CSA entry portal.
Lifesavers please enter using the black button below and pay on the day with cash or snapscan.
There will be no entries on the day, only pre-entries.
Entries close 11.45am 8th February 2025.
CSA Paddlers
https://paddler.canoesa.com/
CSA registered paddlers to enter and pay online. As a CSA registered paddler you will not be able to enter and pay on the day as per CSA rules. Pre entries only.
Life Savers
https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=376594
Life Savers to enter online and pay for their entry at registration on the day via cash or Snap Scan. There will NOT be facilities for card payments. On the day entries will NOT allowed, pre entry only.
Date: 9th Feb 2025
Place: Oceana Power Boat Club
Registration: 7:45 – 8:45 am
Briefing: 8:30
Race Start: 9 am
Distance: 16 km Long Course open to Surf Ski only (due to time limitations we sadly cannot accomodate SUP and prone paddlers for the long course)
8 km Short Surf Ski – Sup, Prone/Malibu board Lap Race.
Requirements: PFD – Leash – Cellphone with SafeTrtx required. Prone / Malibu paddlers do not require a PFD.
Entrants must be CSA registered & “surfski” level proficiency or be SA Lifesaving registered with a JLA or above for the lifesaving disciplines.
Entry fees:
Long Course – R200, Juniors R120
Short Course – R120, Juniors R100
