So as the season winds down to the final leg in Hawaii we can look back with some satisfaction over a year of solid results. Billy and Rick are in Hawaii right now waiting on a start in the first event at Hale’iwa on Oahu’s North Shore. I sit and wait for something different all together. My first child.

I am hoping to make the trip to Sunset solely for that event before returning home again to be with my new family.

Here is a story from last week in Kangaroo Island taken from stuff.co.nz

New Zealand surfer Jay Quinn has finished second in the latest stop of the secondary world surfing tour. Quinn lost the final of the Kangaroo Island Pro in South Australia to American Kolohe Andino.

Andino dominated from the start and registered four waves all worth more than seven points with his best two giving him his total of 15.33. Quinn finished with a two-wave total of 13.64.

But it was a lucrative event for Quinn, earning him $US12,300 and an invaluable 2640 ranking points from the six-star event, a result that keeps him firmly inside the world’s top 50.

There was a strong Kiwi flavour to the final day of action in the contest’s debut on the world tour surfed in small and tricky conditions. Quinn snuck past Mahia’s Richard Christie in a low scoring semifinal, winning 11.83 to 8.50.

Earlier in his quarterfinal Quinn had eliminated Raglan’s Billy Stairmand 13.90 to 12.43.

Christie had looked impressive in his quarterfinal domination of Australian Perth Standick, winning 13.17 to 9.80.

Quinn, Christie and Stairmand all have guaranteed starts in the $250,000 World Cup event to be surfed at Hawaii’s famous Sunset Beach from November 25.

Christie and Stairmand are set to contest the Hawaiian Pro event which starts at Haleiwa on Saturday.