Team Profiles

2008/09 was the first season racing for Blackpepper. It's been an action packed one, with a rapid improvement over the 6 race summer series, almost breaking into the top 3 in the final round at Piha. Managing to keep the boat upright for the entire surf cross series and taking out the rookie title was definitely a hightlight, but flipping 5km from the finish of the 180km King of the Cape surf haul would have to be the lowlight of the 2008/09 season (mind you, we did have the wife in the bow). The boat is a Ceasar F8 powered by a racing built yamaha engine.

Scott Radley

Scott is an ex-pro windsurfer who represented New Zealand in Olympic Class racing. This is his 3rd season racing Thundercats and he is ready for some good results after taking our rookie of the year in the 2008/09 season.

Dave Hamilton

I'm an apprentice electrician working in Auckland. This is my 3rd season racing and I competed in the NZ Trans-Tasman team in 2009. I race thundercats because it's a wicked sport, you sit in the sun during the day, drink piss at night and you race somewhere in between.