Round two round up
Epic Bay - Great Britain Ocean ski series
The tide turns in the Great Britain ocean ski series as Ryan ‘Scooby’ Lark and Rosie Edwards win the second round at Epic Bay.
In sunny south Devon, 80 paddlers battled the Deadly 60 heat of Exmouth in the Epic Bay race just shy of 15km.
Carnage of the start as a small shore dump was enough to send boats airborne and back on the beach.
Piran Phillips, the winner of round one, was able to get the best get away and lead to the first turn marker.
Scooby clung onto Phillips wash until the downwind marker, where Lark asserted his dominance.
Racing in his home county of Devon, Scooby worked the runners to perfection and win by an impressive two minutes.
Phillips paddled his way to a second place, just ahead of Uncle Toby’s Ironman Jonathon Crowe.
Meanwhile in the women’s race, it was a three way race between round one winner Ellie McCloy, Rosie Edwards and master Jane Swarbreck.
Edwards and McCloy could only be split by a second in Rhoose, down in Exmouth, Edwards was now only split by a second again.
Swarbreck pushing the young gun to the line, the youngling beat the master by a narrow second.
McCloy coming in a minute later to finish in third place.
A quick race in terms of ocean ski, winner Lark finishing in 1hour 2minutes, in the first heatwave of the year it tested Britain’s top paddlers as they stumbled across the line up the beach.
The ocean ski series is staying on the south coast for round 3, but it’s a long way up the coast to Sussex.
The Sussex Classic taking place near Brighton will be a weekend event, on the 10th and 11th June.
