Exciting times ahead for new coach

From the Sailing Office

Celia Willison’s Edge Women’s Match Team finished runners-up at the Barfoot & Thompson Womens Match Racing worlds. – LiveSailDie photo

The Kawau Mastercard Youth Training Weeks are fully subscribed with 85 young sailors from around the country lined up for an introduction to keelboat sailing. Fingers crossed the weather plays ball, as we are all in tents on the lawn of Lidgard House for two weeks. It’s great way to finish the year for the E7s and hopefully entice some new members into the Mastercard Youth Training Programme for 2023.

Apologies from the Sailing Office for having a breakdown in communication regarding Commodores Cup divisions and associated handicaps. This applies to A, A / R divisions only. Internally, we have altered our process to ensure this does not happen again. I am also meeting with the Handicap Committee to plan a way forward for the remainder of the series in the fairest way possible for all.

You may have noticed that we are trying to get preliminary live results for club racing displayed on the screens in the Members’ Bar and Dinghy Locker after Havana Club Rum Races. Please note that these are provisional and pending any protests, or errors.

The link to this feed will become available on the webpage for each individual series as well. There have been some technical issues, but we are working on being more fluid.

Sprint Racing is well underway for the Stewart 34s, MRX, Etchells, Women’s Series, Y88s and Elliott 7s. Unfortunately, some November weather was rather blustery and several evenings were called off. Hopefully, with the gentler sea breezes of summer to come, the remainder can all go ahead as planned. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved with these fleets if you aren’t already. Just sing out if we can help in any way.

Match racing events take an enormous amount of resource to run. We have just recently held the NZ Women’s Match Racing Nationals and Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championships back-toback. A massive thank you to our wonderful volunteers who helped make these memorable events for all. To those who billeted teams, assisted with transport, performed race management duties, umpiring, cleaning up after them all, we thank you very much.

The Christmas Race is being held on the 21 December, and we hope to see you all for one final outing before the club shuts down for the holiday season. Bring all your friends along, sailors or not.

The PIC Insurance Brokers Cruising Series has been in full swing and it is pleasing to see many boats venture out, even though the weather wasn’t always ideal.

We have several Learn-to-Sail graduates very keen to join this series with their own boats and get amongst a crowd who enjoy exploring our beautiful harbour. Hopefully this will lead to some solid growth in this series.

We have recently held the Etchells Nationals, so congratulations to Anatole Masfen and team for taking out the series in dominating fashion. A whopping 10-point lead over the second placed team of Marvin Beckman, who pipped Laurie Jury on countback for second place.

Hope everyone manages to get out on the water to enjoy the Festive Season, refresh and recharge those batteries for a cracker 2023! See you all on the other side. Reuben Corbett, Sailing Manager