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Sunday’s event was Day 3 of the Winter Series All Class Handicap, and was held at Whitby Lake. The Race Officer for the day was Bruce–thank you Bruce. The conditions for the event were fine with wind gusts at times on the top end of the ‘A’ rig. And what a fleet it was, 9 boats and 5 of these where […]
Continue reading »Sunday September 9 we held Day 2 of the Winter Series AC15 Match Racing, the venue was Seaview Marina. 3 brave skippers (David had a bad cold and was confined to home) a very wise decision, as it was bitterly cold –southerly. ‘B’ rigs was the suit of the day as the wind was gusting quite heavy. Darrell was quick off […]
Continue reading »The following are the results for the All Class Handicap Winter Series after 2 days of racing. ALL CLASS H/CAP SERIES RESULTS WINTER SERIES SKIPPER SAIL No D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D/CARD POINTS PLACING D Blewett 74 14 14 E Schmidt 79 14 8 D Blake 93 24 17 P Fisher 23 14 34 D Ross 54 […]
Continue reading »Sunday August 26 we held Day 2 of the Winter Series All Class Handicap, the venue was Whitby Lake. The weather was great, sunny with a reasonable northerly. The racing was excellent with David and Darrell giving Ed a good run for his money, with the lead changing very frequently. As usual with this venue the northern most buoy suffered several […]
Continue reading »2018 Murray Rowntree Regatta Race Officer’s Report. This year saw the regatta held at a new venue. The Kapiti club has established this gem at Otaki where the river has been used as a gravel quarry and is now to be developed as a water recreation park. Whilst the surroundings are in a rough state at the moment with the surface underfoot being very […]
Continue reading »Sunday August 19 we held the re-scheduled Day 1 of the Winter Series All Class Handicap. Seaview Marina did us proud with great conditions, sunny, warm with a steady northerly, which suited the ‘A’ rig. I was pleasantly surprised with the number of skippers that turned up, as several others are over-seas. enjoying the ‘northern summer’. Great to see a […]
Continue reading »Sunday August 5 we held Day 1 of the Winter Series AC15 Match Racing at Whitby. It has been many months since Whitby Lake has seen the AC15’s. The conditions were not ideal, it was warm and overcast with a very little air movement, OK the odd puff came thru but they where not enough to get the boats really […]
Continue reading »Sunday July 22 event was the IOM Autumn Regatta, the venue was the Seaview Marina. The conditions prior to the event were dismal to say the least, strong winds with real ‘hairy gusts, and rain. But, it cleared up by the time we arrived at the venue. We ended up with condition that varied between a light breeze and heavy […]
Continue reading »Here are the final results for the AC15 Summer Series Match Racing AC15 MATCH RACING SUMMER SERIES RESULTS 2018 SAIL Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Points Placing D van der Plas 9 4.5 8 7 16 35.5 3 D Blewett 48 16 8 13 6 8 13 64 2 R Perry 5 12 […]
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