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LOCALSaturday 21 November 2015

PWA WAVE WORLD TOUR 2015 ENDS IN MAUI, HAWAII

“Sarah-Quita Offringa makes her mark in the waves”

The sun sets on the 2015 ready beginning to make “Wave is my new chal- next to Daida and Iballa while counting slowly to 10
PWA Wave World Tour in her mark in the waves. In lenge and the goal was to and that’s real cool! Big, before surfacing to avoid
the most spectacular fash- fact Offringa was just 0.99 finish top three this year. I big congrats to all the la- being bashed by the white
ion of a point away from over- just thought that would be dies out there, especially foam of the braking waves.
The elite of the wave sailing taking Daida Moreno into cool. But now that I have charging at this event in Her gear ended up on the
world headed for the icon- second place, as a 6th it, I have the same feeling Ho’okipa. They’re all very rocks while she hitched a
ic Ho’okipa Beach Park, place finish at the Nove- I had finishing 3rd in Pozo. inspiring to me. It is time jetski ride inside with the
Maui, between the 28th Nove Maui Aloha Classic It’s great to have this mix to to celebrate with some skull base crew only to find
October until the 10th No- would have just done that of events of port and star- champagne!!” Sarah-Qui- her board broken but her
vember for what is widely but Nayra Alonso (Fanatic board tack and be able to ta who had to sail in the sail still intact. The heat was
regarded as the most pres- / Severne) prevailed with sail against the best girls in single elimination in heat cancelled as the girls were
tigious event on the World 12.37 points to Offringa’s the world of all these spots. 10 had after one good pinned on the inside by a
Tour calendar — The Maui 11.38 points. It’s a dream come true fin- wave ride been totally an- rapidly increasing swell. The
Aloha Classic sponsored Sarah-Quita Offringa com- ishing on the podium for nihilated in mast and a half second elimination saw
by NoveNove — and with pletes the overall women’s WAVE sailing. Unknowingly high waves. The local rid- her reach 6th place of the
world titles on the line and wave podium for the first it was something I wanted ers had taught her to re- event affording her a 3rd
everyone desperate to time in her career and said: badly. I get to be up there main calm and stay under place overall podium finish.
scoop this illustrious acco-
lade the stakes couldn’t
have been higher.
Over the next 14 days in
Maui the waves were up
to double mast high and
regular trade winds bom-
barded Ho’okipa leading
to a fitting finale as the sun
eventually set on another
pulsating PWA Wave World
Tour.
Sarah-Quita Offringa may
have only been compet-
ing on the Wave World
Tour for the past two years,
but the Aruban gem is al-