Day One: Day one of the 2025 NZTSA Secondary Schools National Championship at New Plymouth Yacht Club kicked off with light winds, ranging from 5 to 10 knots, and some lulls throughout the day. The teams had to adjust their tactics for the conditions, taking their time to set up properly around the marks, making those crucial starts even more important. One of the standout moments was an intense race between Garin and Nelson Girls, both teams going head-to-head with their tra

It’s been a busy few weeks around the country for our secondary school teams sailors, with four regional events held. Congratulations to all our regional winners: Upper North – Rangitoto College Auckland – Auckland Grammar Central North – Napier Boys Top of the South – Christ College We are now minus 3 weeks to the start of the NZTSA Secondary Schools National Championship, held this year at New Plymouth Yacht Club after an amazing event last year. Here’s hoping for more beau

Well, that’s a wrap of the 2024 NZ Secondary Schools Teams Sailing Nationals! A huge thank you to New Plymouth Yacht Club for being such amazing hosts, with excellent support from your members and an amazing venue, coming together to deliver an outstanding event I’m sure many of us will be talking about for years to come. After the introduction of a single course at Algies Bay last year, New Plymouth was the perfect venue to really put this plan to the test. With a (at times)

Exciting times are in store with some changes coming to the teams racing circuit for the 2024 season! We are really excited to announce that NZTSA has partnered with the New Plymouth Yacht Club to host the 2024 NZSS Team Sailing National Championships. Hopefully everyone is really excited to get racing in a different venue, this will be the first nationals in New Plymouth since 2007 and the first time that the championships hasn’t been hosted in either Algies Bay or Lake Taup

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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!

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