(Test) Big Fleets in Auckland Champs at Eastern Beach

by Sail-World on 20 Mar 2006 The 2006 Auckland Champs were organised jointly by the Glendowie Boating Club and the Howick Sailing Club over the weekend of March 11th and 12th 2006 at Eastern Beach. The first day of the regatta also included the Dirty Dog Regatta for the Optimist classes.

In the 420 class, 27 boats competed, with main point of interest being the entry of Simon Cooke and Scottt Illingworth. Cooke intends to sail in the 2007 420 Worlds at Takapuna and finished third overall, placing in the top four in each race (except for one where they had a DNF).

Top 470 combination Geoff Woolley and Mark Overington also competed but had gear failure, and sailed only two of the six races.

Winner of the 420 event was the top combination of Carl Evans (KYC) and Peter Burling(Tauranga), who won two races and were always in the top four placings. The Tauranga crew of Jason Saunders and Bruce Kennedy placed second overall, also winning two races, but not having the consistency of Evans and Burling.

Two womens crews finished in fifth and sixth overall in the Open fleet, with Sarah Bilkey and Rosie Sargisson heading off the 2005 ISAF Youth combination of Georgina Hill and Michelle Kennedy by two points.

The previous weekend eight of the top nine 420’s completed an intensive weekend of training in Tauranga taken by Simon Cooke and Mat Brown. The two world championships in six months for 420’s has certainly created a lot of interest in the class with regatta fleets regularly around 25-30

The Auckland Championships regatta attracted 290 boats and 317 sailors sailing in Optimist, P-class, Paper Tiger, Splash, Starling and Techno board classes.

The largest class was the Open Optimist fleet with 116 boats from Kerikeri to Christchurch. Marcus Hansen won the Open event with Scott Barnes and Hyatt Brown – all from Murrays Bay SC – and the club dominated the event with seven sailors in the top ten overall. In the Green fleet, Verity Judge, again from Murrays Bay, won with Olivia Mackay (Napier) in second and first boy was Hamish Dunning-Beck (Wakatere) in third overall after seven races sailed.

In the Dirty Dog Regatta, Scott Barnes (MBSC) won, with Thomas Saunders (TYPBC) second and Ashleigh Lamberg (Glendowie) in third – she was also top female skipper in the four race event. The Green fleet proved to be a rehearsal for the Auckland Championships with Verity Judge again showing the way for the 79 strong fleet, Hamish Dunning-Beck top boy, in second place and Sam Schofield (Torbay) finishing third overall.

The Splash class attracted another top and diverse fleet with 24 entries from Kerikeri to Nelson. Andrew Maloney (Kerikeri) who won a bronze medal at the World championships in Poland dominated the event, winning six of the seven races sailed. Matt Vincent (Nelson) was second with Blair Tuke (Kerikeri) third.

A strong fleet of 46 boats from the upper half of the North island competed in the Starling class with Blair Lowe from Glendowie BC being a clear winner, finishing in the top three in all but his discard race. Second overall was Darren Kennedy (Tauranga) with Sean Thompson (Torbay) third overall.

The P-class had just nine entries from Taupo to Torbay, with Bryon Peard, Matthew Lee and Alysa Parker taking the podium places.

The Techno Board class attracted ten entries in its first season, with Richard Ellis (Kohimaramara YC) again dominating, winning four of the five races sailed. Dean Thompson (KYC) was second with Sefton Powrie (KYC) third.

Douglas Ferguson (Howick) led the 14 strong Paper Tiger catamaran fleet with five wins from six races, followed by Mark Bell (Howick) and David Williamson (Howick).

Eastern Beach
Auckland Champs March 2006

420 results

Sailed:6, Discards:1, To count:5, Ratings:None, Entries:27, Scoring system:My scoring system
Rank	Class	SailNo	Helm	Crew	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Nett	Notes
1	420	51984	Carl Evans	Peter Burling	KYC	1	(4)	1	3	2	3		10
2	420	52362	Jason Saunders	Bruce Kennedy	TYPBC	(7)	5	2	1	3	1		12
3	420	51642	Simon Cooke	Scott Illingworth	KYC	2	3	(28 DNF)	4	1	2		12
4	420	51986	Mike Snow-Hansen	Josh McCormack	Wakatere	4	(10)	6	2	6	6		24
5	420	51982	Sarah Bilkey	Rosie Sargisson	KYC	3	(14)	3	10	8	4		28
6	420	52360	Georgina Hill	Michelle Kennedy	KYC	10	(13)	5	6	4	5		30
7	420	52364	Adrian Short	David Hazard	Sandspit Yacht Club	(11)	1	7	8	5	11		32
8	420	50273	Michael Langley	Riley Dean	Howick SC	6	6	8	7	(11)	8		35
9	420	52359	Paul Snow - Hansen	Sam Marshall	Wakatere	9	2	10	(12)	7	9		37
10	420	52358	Rowan Swanson	Benjamin Hanns	Worser Bay	(16)	16	4	5	10	7		42
11	420	51843	Stepanie Hazard	Cindy Hamilton	Sandspit Yacht Club	5	9	9	13	18	(21)		54
12	420	52361	Susannah Pyatt	Bianca Barbarich-Bacher	Murrays Bay SC	21	11	11	9	9	(28 OCS)		61
13	420	52363	Ben Goodwin	Kagan Weeks	Napier	12	(21)	12	16	12	10		62
14	420	51556	Travis Dow	Joseph Wright	Whangarei CC	(22)	15	14	15	13	15		72
15	420	49830	Sarah Berry	Emma Berry	Worser Bay	13	7	15	11	(28 DNF)	28 DNF		74
16	420	BBYC 4	Anthony Crossan	Codie Banks	BBYC	(23)	20	13	17	15	12		77
17	420	48428	Tim Adams	Charlie Wilkinson	KYC	17	12	19	(23)	16	13		77
18	420	51621	Shaun Mason	Brett Elstob	Murrays Bay SC	(19)	18	18	14	17	14		81
19	420	52356	Alexandra Davies	Maddy Urry	KYC	(20)	17	17	18	14	16		82
20	420	50943	Rachel Basevi	Donna Hamilton	Sandspit Yacht Club	14	19	(21)	19	21	17		90
21	420	BBYC 1	Alex Wilson	Kate Bone	BBYC	15	(23)	20	20	20	18		93
22	420	CAN	Geoff Woolley	Mark Overington	KYC	8	8	(28 DNF)	28 DNS	28 DNS	28 DNF		100
23	420	50940	Laura Hatye	Fredrick Wegner	Germany	18	22	22	(24)	19	19		100
24	420	BBYC 3	Jacob Balemi	Owen Bodley	BBYC	25	24	16	21	23	(28 DNF)		109
25	420	5164	Yelana lee	Kelly Barnes	Murrays Bay SC	24	25	(28 DNF)	22	22	20		113
26	420	BBYC 5	Blair Harkin	Kieran Dobson	BBYC	26	26	(28 DNF)	28 DNS	28 DNS	28 DNF		136
27	420		Alister Thompson	Chris Dawson		(DNC)	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC		140

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