Tauranga Boys win Australasian Teams Racing
by Heather Burling on 17 Sep 2007
Tauranga Boys Sailing Team Event Media
The top three NZ schools sailing teams have been in Tasmania for the last few days sailing in the Interdominion Teams racing champs against the top Australian schools.
Tauranga Boys college were the overall winners. This follows on from Tauranga Boys win at the secondary school teams racing nationals earlier this year.
The top three schools from the NZ Nationals (Tauranga Boys, Mahurangi and Queen Charlotte) took on the top three Australian schools (St Virgils, Hutchins and Christchurch (which is in Perth))
Each team sailed in three two-crew 'Pacer' boats.
Each team sailed every other team in five short races over three days - a total of 75 races with each school sailing 25 races.
Tauranga Boys won 20 out of their 25 races (to keep it fair, they lost to every school once) to win overall - St Virgils (Australia) were second with 18 wins and Mahurangi 3rd with 14 wins. Queen Charlotte after a slow start managed three wins including beating Tauranga Boys in the last round in very light winds.
Conditions varied from 0 to 15 knots of wind, with cold temperatures.
There is a prize for top country which looks as if it will be very close - both countries are sitting on 30 points and at this stage it is not clear which country has won.
The Tauranga boys college team is
Peter Burling
Jason Saunders
Thomas Saunders
Sam Meech
Luke Stevenson
Nicholas Gunn
Kieran Thomas
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