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The conditions where not to every skippers satisfaction, northerly, very variable, with the odd shower, and to top it off we even had the strike of thunder and lightning. Six skippers arrived, including the 2 Gault brothers, both proved to be more than capable of managing the trying conditions, welcome to you both. The event was won by Dave, followed closely […]
Continue reading »From Sunday 14th July at Whitby – Skippers were greeted with a mixture of no wind at all to rain squalls with good B rig winds. Many skippers called in with “weather not for me” decisions but the weather terned out dry with mostly good B rig winds resulting in good racing with 3 different race winners.
Continue reading »From Sunday 7th July The conditions where totally un-expected – a complete reversal of the weather we suffered during the past week. Only 5 skippers attended, with Rod having to drop out during the first lap with winch drum problems. Great to see Hans making progress with his V5. Ed and Darrell had some great tussles with Darrell eventually taking a […]
Continue reading »Sunday 16th June – Today we held the Autumn IOM Regatta at Whitby Lake with conditions that were ‘straight out of the box’–a light northerly with the odd gust. The gusts weren’t quite ‘B’ rig so the majority of skippers went for the ‘A’ rig. Dave was up to his normal standard, by winning all bar 1 race followed by […]
Continue reading »Today we held the final day of the Summer Series All Class Handicap at the Seaview Marina. 9 skippers arrived to be greeted by a nice steady northerly breeze which gained in strength while we rigged up, ‘B ‘rigs were eventually chosen. I can’t remember seeing handicap racing ending up with the final points being so close. The finishes where so […]
Continue reading »This major anniversary of the Murray Rountree Memorial Trophy comes around so quickly it seems. It feels such a short time ago since a tragic motor accident took the life of this Wellington Radio Yacht Club member and friend. For me, this trophy, presented at the time to honour the life of Murray, has come to also honour and remember […]
Continue reading »Skipper Sail No Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Ed Schmidt 38 12 C 16 Darrell Blewett 74 18 a 14 Laurie Greene 495 29 n John McPherson 42 8 c 11 Len Wilmer 142 18 e Brian Sullivan 589 l 13
Continue reading »On Sunday 9th October 2016 we held Day 3 of the Winter Series All Class Handicap at the Aotea Lagoon. Despite a very late start we enjoyed an eventful afternoon with a light southerly, some rain, and some sunshine. It is a long time since we have experienced a southerly at the lagoon, and we found the sailing was far […]
Continue reading »Skipper Sail No Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 David van der Plas 09 18 10 11 14 Darrell Blewett 06 6 1 8 7.5 Ed Schmidt 07 16 9.5 11.5 10 Ron Perry 05 10 12 16 16
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