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

With the 2024 season of Team Sailing all finished, it’s time to start looking ahead for the 2025 season. Dates below are indications at this time, and will be confirmed soon. Upper North – Parua Bay – 23rd – 25th March 2025 Auckland – Akarana – 26th – 28th March 2025 Central North Island – Taupo – 22nd – 24th March 2025 Top of the South – Picton (QCYC) – 20th – 22nd March 2025 More information and NOR’s to be posted as they come.

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

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,

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

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

No racing Day 3 at Picton due to lack of wind.

Day 1 2 RRs almost completed, except for 1 silver fleet race, which was deferred until day 2 after a major breakage – BUT this could create a 3-way tie for relegation to bronze fleet. Day 2 4 Round Robins now complete, with a finals scheduled for Saturday

North of the Bridge at Parua Bay Day 1: 2 RRs completed – order so far: Rangi, Kerikeri, Westlake Boys, Wentworth, Mahu A, Whangarei Boys, Mahu B, Whangarei Girls Central North Islands at Taupo A frustrating day of light and fickle winds, but the final nine races of the first round robin were completed. Lower South Islands at Lake Hood

Sunday dawned cool with a light breeze, so teams went afloat, but only 2 races completed before the wind died, but the sun shone. So ashore until just before 2pm, when the forecast light wind came in. 1 round robin completed and teams off the water soon after 6pm. RR2 planned for Monday, with an earlier start time, weather permitting.

Final Day Day three lightened off again, but did have the Race Officer re-jig the round robin so that every team had equal chance with all of the boats. As the wind lightened we did manage to get another complete round robin done meaning three for the regatta. Really close earlier rounds meant it could have been three or four teams in contention for the trophy. Wellington College losing to Nelson Girls thought they ended their chances – but the girls also beat Nelson Boys