Thievery were the winners at this years edition of the Open Championships – this year at the new venue, being hosted at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club in Auckland. Day 1 was a breezy affair with average winds of around 20 knots for most of the day. The race management team got through almost a full round robin despite some gear breakages which led to a short pause on shore, but after a one hour postponement for high winds the fleet relaunched and got stuck back into it. At the

The Secondary Schools Team Racing National Championships has come to a close and after a delayed start, resulting in three days of intense and very breezy racing for the teams, we have a champion! With only one day of racing taking place with full sails on it was a very windy iteration of the championships. Congratulations to the team from Westlake Boys High School: Lucas Day, Sam Clarke, Ethan Fong, Isaac Gaites, Robbie Wooldridge, Flinn Olson, Jago Cleghorn & Leo Jeffrey. T

Final results from the Central North Island Regionals saw Napier Boys High follow on their strong result coming 2nd in the 2022 National Championships with a victory in their regionals this year. The regatta saw fantastic entry numbers with 12 teams travelling from Wellington to New Plymouth to Tauranga to compete and see how their seasons training had gotten them improving in their team sailing. The team from Napier Boys won the regatta flawlessly, without dropping a single

The Top of the South Regionals was hosted this year by the Marlborough Colleges Sailing Club & the Queen Charlotte Yacht Club over the 30th March to 1st April. After a good southerly blow moved up the South island on Wednesday night and temperatures dropped, Thursday 30 th saw all interisland ferries cancelled due to 6 metre swells in Cook Strait. Picton Harbour looked very different however and we waited until lunchtime for some breeze to get the regatta underway. With seve

The Auckland Team Sailing Regionals was held over the 30-31 of March out of the Royal Akarana Yacht Club, with 21 teams on the final entry list the stage was set for a great regatta. The first day started with a trickle of breeze from the wrong direction and a handful of races were attempted and led to a few time-outs. The wind soon swung and filled in from the forecast south-west and steadily built through the day. The race committee led by RO Paul Wotton did an amazing job

Day 1: 94 races completed on a huge first day of the Auckland Team Sailing Regional Champs – a full round for the gold flight and most of the way there for the silvers. A 9am start time tomorrow means that hopefully we can get another round complete for a 2x RR regatta.

The first day of racing at the Central North Island Team Sailing Regionals, hosted by the amazing team at LTYC is all wrapped up. The teams have completed one full round robin in qualifying pools, with last years top performers looking strong again – both Napier Boys and Tauranga Boys winning every race in their pool. Followed extremely closely in each pool by the Taupo combined team and the team from New Plymouth Boys. Day 2 racing promises to be a close affair… Results from

The Notice of Race has been finalised for the 2023 Secondary Schools Team Racing National Championships and is available online here! Make sure to have a read through and get your school/teams entries in as soon as possible. After a wet and windy out-of-sync nationals back in October saw first time champions Takapuna Grammar take out the title, it will be interesting to see who can challenge them for the national title. We’re looking forward to some excellent racing going for