The 2018 Secondary Schools Team Sailing Championships will be held at Taupo, (registration Sat 21, with sailing Sun 22 – Fri 27 April, ANZAC Day falls in the middle again). An Umpires’ course is expected to be held Fri 20 & Sat 21, as usual. In brief, Nelson felt that there was not sufficient time to make the most of […]

https://goo.gl/photos/v64VHQCWhQ24XiPs8  

Well that’s it folks!  Another year of team sailing completed.  It’s all over, bar the after match-party and the formal dinner.  It all came down to the last couple of races, with some very close racing finishing the week. Crazy team sailing stats were: 36 teams, approx. 250 students, more than 50 coaches, umpires and race management.  42 – 420’s […]

What a great day.  After a short delay the breeze filled in as predicted to get racing started.  Then exactly as forecast it shifted to require the resetting of the courses, but was then pretty much steady for the day.  This made for solid close racing on the course, but some were challenged by the slight chop. Great sportsmanship was […]

RR2 Regatta Points RR2 repechage decision tree Wednesday’s weather was an improvement on Tuesday, with a beautiful sunny day, however, the light wind conditions made for more challenging racing, as we struggled to get on the water until after midday.  The light wind conditions made it very technical and the teams who really know teams racing and understand mark traps […]

RR2 is complete & repechages sailed. St Kentigern advance to the Gold Fleet & New Plymouth Boys drop down to Silver. Waimea move up to Silver ahead, with Mahurangi going to Bronze fleet. Regatta Points to come

The wind gods did not provide anything to commemorate from a sailing perspective today.  While the weather provided a perfectly still and calm day for dawn services and Anzac Commemorations, we worked hard to get the few races away. With races not commencing till after midday, today saw a gradual easing of the wind throughout the afternoon with a few […]

RR1 Regatta Points RR1 Repechage Results RR1 Repechage Decision Tree The weather request from yesterday was delivered today, with the sun coming out and heating up the spectators and sailors alike, this also brought perfect teams sailing conditions and all fleets got to race in great winds to ensure that their focus was on tactics as much as boat handling. […]

The weather provided perfect wind with a challenging chop, which made for excellent conditions for team sailing. Race Officer, Richard Brown, said today was a first for him with a total of 90 races completed on the Gold and Silver course!  He said that the sailing conditions, coupled with the top-notch maintenance on boats and smooth operation on change-over boats […]