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From the Sailing Office

The Doyle Sails Winter Series racing has been going well with 70 to 90 boats out each time. The handicappers must be doing a good job, because the majority of the fleets are extremely tight on the leader board.

At the time of writing, Omega is 1pt ahead of Georgia One in A Division, Nirvana has a slender lead over Charmonet in B Division, Grunt Machine is tied with Fast Company in C Light, Prism almost has a picket fence of results in F Division, Touch of Gloss is marching ahead in the MRX fleet, Houdini has a commanding lead in the Sports Boat Division and Wish You Were Here has the slimmest of margins in the Non-Spinnaker Division. Plenty to sail for in the remaining races!

In the Havana Cup Rum Race Series; Charmonet has a one point lead in the B Division and Tigga has a small jump on Elliphunk in the E Division. There was a cracking finish to the last Rum Race where Elliphunk just crossed ahead of Tigga and Extreme to nab the gun. Can’t get much better than that!

Shout out to Jordan Stevenson, Mitch Jackson and George Angus for winning the prestigious Governor’s Cup Youth Match Racing event at the Balboa Yacht Club, USA. After being in the wilderness of Covid, the team regrouped and steadily improved throughout the regatta to peak at the right time.

In the office, we have Brooke Adamson joining the team to assist Dave West while Megan Thomson is away. Brooke is also completing her internship with us and is proving a great asset to the team.

Megan is off competing in the USA Grand Slam with her 2.0 Team. We are in the process of replacing our Training Manager with a full time Coach.

Applications are still open at the time of writing. We are gearing up for what will no doubt be another busy summer of sailing.

Big events around the corner include the NZ Women’s Match Racing World Championships on the 9th to 13th of November. We are endeavouring to billet as many of the travelling teams as possible, so if you are open to having a team of five crash on your boat, floor, campervan, empty house etc, please get in touch as it will no doubt make their day! I’m sure they will all have plenty of interesting stories to share and an opportunity to make new friends. – Reuben Corbett, Sailing Manager

Omega, locked in a tight A-Division points battle. – Billy Woodworth Photo

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