Secondary Schools

The Rarotonga Team Sailing Week concluded on Wednesday with 20+ happy but tired sailors coming off the water after the last round of team racing. The three days of racing concluded with a mini round-robin series between the Cook Islands and two New Zealand combined teams. All of the races were really tight and we saw lots of team sailing that wouldn’t have been possible a week ago. Representing in the New Zealand teams we had sailors from: – Whangarei Boys High (1) – Whangare

Now that the days are getting much colder we can reflect on the 2020/2021 team racing season and what schools had a season they’ll always remember! First we had our national champions, retaining the title from 2019 – Rangitoto College. The team of Lucy Leith, Naiomi Ferrissey, Caleb Armit, Joe Leith, Seb Menzies, Alex Hebberd, Josh Ferrissey & Kayla Abbott displayed a dominant performance taking out 37 wins from 40 races, losing only to second placed Westlake Boys High. The W

The Secondary Schools Team Sailing National Championships is all over and done for another year, with the regatta this year probably consisting of the most racing that we have ever managed at the event. The team of race officials managed to fire off 603 races over the regatta, a rate of over 100 races a day on average! We had a wide range of conditions, from light and shifty breezes to steady strong winds, so the teams that came out on top can be confident that they proved th

Day 1 After a windy opening day at the team sailing nationals, Waimea College currently sit on top of the leader board, followed closely behind in the gold flight by Rangitoto and Westlake Boys rounding out the top three. Leading the silver fleet at this stage are the Epsom Girls and leading the bronze fleet are Christs college winning all bar one of their races in the round. Remember at the end of RR1 there is a three-team repechage to determine the flights for the rest of t

The race results from the Nationals will be updated hourly on the link below for all three fleets!

Registration will be open from 13:00 to 17:30 today at the Mahurangi Community Centre in Snells Beach. Make sure teams arrive for a weigh-in and aiming to be over 110kg! At registration you will get your flight allocation and your copies of the race draws so you can see who you’re up against first! Competitors Welcome and Briefing will follow shortly after at 18:00!

We are just a few days away from the start of the NZTSA Team Sailing National Championships now! Hopefully all teams are excited and ready to get stuck into a big week of racing, the forecast looks like a good range of conditions for everyone! There is a full schedule of everything important that’s happening available below: Registration will be open from 13:00 to 17:30 on Saturday at the Mahurangi Community Centre, in the Betty Paxton Room. Competitors Briefing will follow r

We had five teams racing at this year’s Lower South Island Team Sailing Regatta, Christchurch Boys, Timaru Boys A, Timaru Boys B, Mount Aspiring A & Wanaka/Otago Girls Combined. With a wide range of abilities in the fleet the decision was taken to split the fleet into an A and B flight to give the teams more competitive racing so that everyone got the most out of the regatta. All the teams acknowledged that the Christchurch Boys team were the winners of the regatta but also

The 2021 CNI Teams Regionals, hosted by Lake Taupo Yacht Club took place over three beautiful days of racing, with a wide range of wind that gave teams a really challenging regatta. 11 teams from all over the North Island travelled over for the regatta and it was well worth the trip! Napier Boys High put in a stellar performance to take the regatta win with 12 wins from 15 races in the gold flight, closely followed by Tauranga Boys on 10 wins. The first girls team went to Nap

Entries for the Secondary School National Championships are open now! The entry form is attached the the Notice of Race which can be found below. Early entries and expressions of interest are encouraged. After the 2020 edition was cancelled due to Covid-19 more teams than ever should be ready and raring to go for the regatta this year!

NZTSA are happy to publish that we will be running an umpires training course just prior to the school’s national championships in April. Provisional dates for the course will be the 24th & 25th of April, the weekend immediately preceding the nationals week. This is being run in co-ordination with Yachting NZ and is a great idea to do for any level of umpiring and rules experience. This will be run out of Sandspit Yacht Club over that weekend. It will comprise of a theory/lea

Teams arrived for the third days racing to be met with a very light northerly breeze, after two days of great conditions this was going to be a very different test for the teams. After the morning briefing, the sailors started to make their way upwind to the course to get crack on with the final round robin. The combined team of Nelson/Timaru/Takapuna had a flawless day, finishing the regatta on a high winning 5 out of 5 races after some really close racing on the final upwin

Sailors arrived at Royal Akarana for the second day of the regatta to be greeted with a light northerly breeze, with Okahu Bay presenting absolutely perfect conditions for more teams racing. After the coaches briefing recapping some of the learning points from day one, all the teams hit the water eager to have another crack at each other. Whangarei Boys continued their strong series, going a second day unbeaten, but being pushed harder than the previous day. The two races bet

Grey skies and gusty conditions greeted the six teams sailing in the NZTSA Christmas Regatta, sponsored by Abaco on Jervois. The conditions soon burned off and even before the briefing was held the sun was starting to shine through. Teams spent the morning battling around the gusty and shifty racecourse in Okahu Bay, finishing 24 races before heading ashore for some coaching tips as a part of the regatta. The conditions were unrelenting for the teams in the afternoon, along w

J ust to update teams with some info about logistics for the time of the regatta – if the America’s Cup racing choose to race on one of the inner courses, then some roads around Orakei and Devonport will have some restrictions on. The main way this could affect our regatta is that between 13:00 and 20:00, Tamaki Drive (eastbound) will be closed, the road will be running as a one-way road going westbound. This means to access RAYC and ASC you will need to do a loop around to M

We are now just over a week away from the NZTSA Christmas Regatta, sponsored by Abaco on Jervois who are very kindly providing some travelling teams with accommodation for the regatta. There are sailors confirmed attending from more than 10 schools from the top to the bottom of NZ, from the North Island we’ve got sailors from: Whangarei Boys Whangarei Girls Huanui College Macleans College Waiheke High School Takapuna Grammar and from the South Island we’ve got sailors from: N

I am sure a few of you have been concerned about the chances of Covid flaring up again, we have been as well… But we have been planning well in advance and doing everything in our control so that what happened in 2020 doesn’t happen again, with regard to cancelling regattas and everything that surrounds them. We are planning on a full season to be going ahead almost as normal. Here is a document that outlines what NZTSA’s policy is regarding the Covid-19 situation, hopefully

Thanks to some excellent team work by Matthew Smith at Whangarei, 5 teams entered a virtual team regatta involving informal teams from Whangarei Boys [2], Whangarei Girls, Mahurangi and Kerikeri High School. The format involved a draw of 20 races set at specific times by Matthew. The draw obviously listed who sailed against whom, the time of the race and also gave the teams sail colours to select from the Google programme. Each pair of teams dialled into Google at the approp

Due to the ever changing Covid-19 situation most of the regional events have now been suspended for the time being. This is formal notification that the Secondary Schools Team Sailing Nationals at Lake Hood this year has been cancelled. We feel that the April 6 review date for a decision was too distant for teams to attempt to request refunds on accommodation, etc. Looking ahead NZTSA is considering the possibility of holding some regattas during the Winter Tournament Week eg

At the moment both the government and school sport are not stopping the regionals from going ahead Hence, NZTSA is hoping all the regionals do go ahead as planned while we have the okay. It would be great for the 55 plus regional teams who have been training this season can at least be able to finish off on a high at a regional event. We hope that schools, sailors, supporters, etc should not however, feel any pressure to attend these events. Regarding holding the Nationals at