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The 2021 edition of the G.J. Gardner Open Team Sailing National Championships was arguably the best open regatta yet. The ten competing teams got through two full round robins in two days, before the final series was unfortunately blown off by winds well in excess of 30 knots on the third and final day. Congratulations is due to the ‘Crossbred Kiwis’ led by Reuben Corbett for taking home the title for another year! Full event report and results can be found below.

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