After a long, long day of racing, a few different wind directions and lots of whistles and flags – the Secondary Schools Team Sailing National Championships & Interdominion Championships has come to a close. Congratulations are in order for every team across the fleet for their efforts throughout the week, we know that all the school teams will be driving and flying home exhausted at the end of a long hard week. The biggest congratulations are in order for Takapuna Grammar Sc

A massive congratulations is in order for our six representatives that are currently battling it out with the six travelling Australian teams. In the open division we have got Takapuna Grammar, Glendowie College & Napier Boys High School. In the girls division we have Nelson College for Girls, Whangarei Girls High School and a Christchurch Girls Combined team.

The Race Officer has decided that the conditions are unsafe for racing to take place today, as we have gusts well over 30 knots on the race course. Please note there has been a change to the start time for Friday 7th October, first race is intended to get away at 8:30 AM with a full race plan to be delivered at the morning sailors briefing. Competitors briefing will be taking place at 7:30 AM in front of the clubhouse, with the intention to leave the beach at 8:00 AM.

Day 1 of the regatta is in the books and we have two teams that are still undefeated, Takapuna Grammar in the gold flight and Brisbane Grammar in their mission to be fully warmed up for the Interdoms starting in a couple of days time! The results are available down below and the full race-by-race results are all viewable in the results hub from the menus.

As we start to get closer to the rescheduled 2022 Schools’ Team Sailing National Championships, entries are already coming in from both New Zealand and Australia. Reminder that the regatta is scheduled to be racing from Monday 3rd to Friday 7th October 2022 . All of the race documents are now available on the event page and at the links below. Any questions around the regatta can be directed to Jamie Catchpole on nztsasecretary@gmail.com We look forward to seeing as many team

The 5th annual G.J. Gardner Homes Open Team Racing national championships were hosted by the Kerikeri Cruising Club, racing in Doves Bay. 10 teams escaped the winter by making the trip up to the Bay of Islands hoping for some breeze and sun – competing for the trophy donated by Core Builders Composites in 2018. Light and tricky breezes were the running theme of the opening two days, which made race officer Brian Trubovich’s task of getting the round robin away extremely diffi

The dates for the NZ Schools’ Team Racing National Championships have been confirmed, with racing taking place from Monday 3rd to Friday 7th October 2022. This is over the first week of the October school holidays. We are hoping to incorporate the Interdominion Team Racing Championships within the nationals, which will make the top of the gold fleet even more competitive than usual!

It is with immense regret that we have lost one of the most enthusiastic and cheerful faces that you would ever see on the team sailing circuit: Sean Dickey. Late last night on the 19th April, he was tragically involved in a motorbike traffic accident that he sadly did not make it out of. Sean dedicated so much of the time he had in his life to being on the water, but he will be especially remembered by those closest to him who were team racing in the South Island in his gen

A mind-bending three day battle with the wind and competitors saw the Napier Boys team once again retain their title as the winner of the central north islands! Teams travelled from New Plymouth up to Tauranga to pit themselves against each other in a challenging regatta. There were a few pauses throughout the regatta to wait for the wind to play ball and get the racing underway, but the race committee did an excellent job getting 108 races away. Massive credit as well goes t

A tough, light and shifty two days took place in the waters of Okahu Bay at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club over the 30th/31st March. Despite the winds best efforts and some lengthy delays in the mornings before racing, the race committee team managed to pump through 79 races across two days! Teams were initially split into two pools to complete a qualification stage, after which they would be drawn into a knockout final series. From pool A – Auckland Grammar, Takapuna Grammar,