Seven teams had an early start to their season’s team sailing at Parua Bay this week. Glendowie, Mahurangi, Wentworth, Whangarei Boys High, 2 Kerikeri mixed teams (red & blue) and a combined team (Whangarei Girls and Mahurangi) completed five round robins at Parua Bay over 3 days. With predominantly light conditions, Wentworth won the regatta, losing only 2 races. The event was organised and run extremely well by the Whangarei Cruising Club, led by Alan Clarkson – well done t

The New Zealand Girls’ teams – New Plymouth Girls High and Nelson Girls have placed 1st and 2nd at the Interdoms. Initial results have Kerikeri High School 1st, Marlborough Boys’ College 3rd and Auckland Grammar placed 6th in the Open division. Winner of the Top Country is still to be notified

Dates so far for the upcoming season. Calendar 2015-16 (updated 15.10.15)

The final day of racing got off to a slow start with some light wind and rain delaying the racing until 1000. Despite the rain, the north-easterly winds kept the chill away for the sailors and race officials, which was a nice change from the rest of the week. The slow racing tested sailors’ patience and light wind sailing abilities. Many sailors struggled to make the starts which ultimately decided races. There were again some races which timed out, much to the dismay of some

Congratulations to Auckland Grammar School for winning the 2015 Secondary Schools Team Sailing Nationals. Second place to Kerikeri High School, third place Marlborough Boys’ College. Final Regatta Points 2015

Racing is being postponed until 10am. Day 4 Report Due to the lack of bronze fleet sailing on day three, four extra sets of boats were put in to the bronze course for the morning to speed up racing and catch up to the A course fleets. Racing began on time for day four in a light nor’noreast, which died away and some races reached their time limits. With a lot of mark laying and relaying in the light and shifty breeze, there was a long wait while the wind settled and filled in

Day 4 sees the bronze fleet sailing in 8 sets of boats to help speed up the completion of their second round robin. The gold/silver fleets, in 4 sets of boats, are completing their 2nd RR, then moving slowly into the next RR, following the repechage. Thursday’s breeze was much stronger than forecasted with race officials recording in excess of 20 knots before the fleets had left the beach, which resulted in an immediate delay for all fleets. This caused the eventual cancellin

Racing start delayed due to 25 knot winds – looking for another site on the lake. Local forecast is for winds to ease off. Wednesday’s racing got underway with a solid 10 knots, as both courses headed out to complete round robin one. The sailors were kept onshore slightly longer than predicted in order to keep them warm whilst the race officials got ready. At the end of the first round robin, we had repecharges for gold-silver and silver-bronze. On the A course, Saint Kents

We had a slow start to the regatta with a postponement for just under an hour due to a lack of wind, which continued to plague the fleets for the first half of the day, with a number of races having to be re-sailed due to reaching the time limit. In the afternoon the breeze got up to a steady 15 knots as forecasted, which tested some teams at times. The standard this year of the bronze fleet is much higher, with some great boat handling seen by the umpires. With the light win

Photo Nayland College and Nelson College for Girls by Susana Buckton The 2015 Teams Sailing Nationals is underway now today in Taupo. Over the last two days we have had an umpire seminar convened by Jim Park, which was attended by 15 new and experienced umpires. All thirty teams entered for this year’s nationals attended the formal briefing last night in the Great Lakes Centre, after completing weigh in at the Lake Taupo Yacht Club. The shore base crew of volunteers have been

Congratulations to Marlborough Boys for winning the 10 team regatta at Picton, followed by Christchurch Boys and Queen Charlotte College. For a full report and results Top of the South Regatta

The South of Bridge Team Regatta was held on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th March. The regatta was hosted by Bucklands Beach Yacht Club, managed by Lyall Tresadern. Twelve 420s were used and there were lots of excellent supporting volunteers. On Wednesday a ten team RR of 45 races was sailed. On Thursday the fleet was split into silver and gold and two RRs of 20 races each was sailed. Regatta points were carried forward throughout the regatta. Auckland Grammar came out well

Top 3 teams were Tauranga Boys, New Plymouth Boys and Linisfarne. Girls Trophy was won by New Plymouth Girls, with the local Inter-College trophy being won by Tauhara.

Kerikeri has won the North of the Bridge Regionals after 2 days of sailing (a total of 130 races), followed by Westlake Boys High School, Kristin, Kerikeri 2, Wentworth and Rangitoto. Westlake Girls won the silver fleet, ahead of Long Bay, Mahurangi, Whangarei and Keri Girls. Points were close in some cases with a few tie breaks to be worked through. Kristin, Rangi and Whangarei showed great improvement over the regatta. A little more teams tactics will see these teams move u

The Central North Islands Regatta at Taupo had a delayed start, but managed to finish 51 races. Results at the end of day 1 – Gold fleet has Tauranga Boys, leading from New Plymouth Boys, New Plymouth Girls, Lindisfarne, Napier Girls A, Tauhara,Taupo Nui-a-Tia & Francis Douglas. Silver fleet is Napier Boys A, Otumoetai, Napier Girls B, Cambridge, Tauranga Girls & Napier Boys B. The North of the Bridge at Algies Bay has 11 teams competing. A full first round robin was complet

There are 31 teams entered in the Secondary Schools Nationals – another big event at Taupo! Thanks to all who offered to help with the umpiring, we had a great response. Remember there is the Umpires’ Course, aimed at team sailing, to be held at Lake Taupo Yacht Club, from 2pm Sunday 12th April & all day Monday 13th, with on-water assessments during the regatta.