Contents:

1. Good News for Boaties in the North
2. YouthSail08
3. Takapuna Worlds on SKY Sport
4. SOF Hyeres Kiwi Results
5. Auckland International 18ft skiff Regatta
6. Zenza NZ Women’s Keelboat National Champs
7. Young 88 National Championships 2008
8. Farr 1020 National Championships 2008
9. International Moth Class Championship 2008
10. Blind Sailing Worlds website launched
11. 2008 Prime Minister’s Scholarships
12. NZ's Jack Lloyd appointed VOR Race Director
13. Dennis Connor International: Registrations open
14. Yachting Quarterly Winter Issue
15. Club Scene: Tasman Regional Sports Trust supports local Yacht Clubs
16. 2009 Singapore Airlines Sail Auckland Dates
17. Southern Pacific Takapuna Worlds RIBs still available
18. Correction: Briefings 2nd April 2008
19. Attention: Subsite users

Good News for Boaties in the North

There has been some good news on the Northland marine farming issue. The Northland Regional Council has bowed to the high number of submissions demanding that large areas of the Northland coast should be off limits to aquaculture farming.

Areas of Northland now off limits to marine farming include the whole of Whangarei Harbour, the eastern Bay of Islands, Houhora, Parengarenga and Rangaunu Harbours; inner Doubtless Bay and large parts of the Kaipara Harbour.

Yachting New Zealand along with the Northland Yachting Association and the Auckland Yacht and Boating Association have been working to ensure that this would happen and the whole coast would not be open to applications for marine farms. The issue is not yet closed and we will continue to work to protect boaties interest in the area.
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YouthSail08

The cream of New Zealand’s youth sailing talent was at Algies Bay over Anzac weekend for the annual YouthSail Regatta hosted this year by Sandspit Yacht Club.

YouthSail08 was the final selection regatta to be taken into consideration for the naming of this year’s NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team to represent New Zealand at the prestigious ISAF Youth Worlds this July. This team will be announced shortly.

With such high stakes the entry list featured some top talent and the competition on the water was tough. Algies Bay provided a range of conditions, with fresh winds on the first and last days of the regatta, and light variable winds on the second and third days.

Cushla Hume-Merry of Wellington in the Laser Radial class and RS:X board sailors Josh Nixon and Jazmine Lynch from Takapuna led their classes throughout the event. The Boys 420 class was won by Paul Snow-Hansen (Wakatere) and Ben Goodwin (Napier) with a comfortable margin from Francisco Lardies (Glendowie) and David Hazard (Sandspit).

Competition was fierce in the Laser and Girls 420 classes with the winner not revealed right up until the last race. Sam Meech of Tauranga eventually held onto a 1-point lead in the Laser over Andy Maloney of Murrays Bay. In the Girls 420 Emma and Sarah Berry staged a late comeback, but were unable to overtake Alexandra Maloney and Bianca Barbarich-Bacher of Murrays Bay.

Final Results…

Laser Boys: 1st Sam Meech (Tauranga); 2nd Andy Maloney (Murrays Bay); 3rd Jason Saunders (Tauranga)

Laser Radial Girls: 1st Cushla Hume-Merry (Evans Bay); 2nd Rachel Basevi (Sandspit); 3rd Sarah Tootill (Bucklands Beach)

Laser Radial Boys: 1st Nicholas Croft (Murrays Bay); 2nd Rawiri Geddes (Kerikeri)

420 Boys: 1st Paul Snow-Hansen/Ben Goodwin (Wakatere/Napier); 2nd Francisco Lardies/David Hazard (Glendowie/Sandspit); 3rd Thomas Saunders/Chris Steele (Tauranga/Wakatere)

420 Girls: 1st Alexandra Maloney/Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (Murrays Bay); 2nd Sarah Berry/Emma Berry (Takapuna); 3rd Emma Goodwin/Gaby Walmsley (Napier/Tauranga)

RSX Boys: 1st Josh Nixon (Takapuna); 2nd Ben MacKay (Murrays Bay); 3rd Oliver Gunman (Takapuna)

RSX Girls: 1st Jazmine Lynch (Takapuna); 2nd Alice Monk (Takapuna)

Starling: 1st Sam Bullock (Tauranga); 2nd Molly Meech (Tauranga); 3rd Luke Stevenson (Tauranga)

Splash: 1st Jordan Coles (Tauranga); 2nd Scott Fyfe (Queen Charlotte); 3rd Ben Lutze (Taipa); 1st Girl Laura Hemingway (Tauranga)

P-class: 1st Oscar Rorvik (Tauranga); 2nd Felicity Ellis (Kohimarama); 3rd Ben Caundle (Tauranga)

Thanks to Kirsty Laws for daily event reports.

[ Sandspit Yacht Club ]
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Takapuna Worlds on SKY Sport

If you have the luxury of SKY Sport then don’t miss the screening of a half hour programme on the recent Olympic Class World Championship Regattas sailed off Takapuna Beach between January and March 2008.

Featuring the RS:X Worlds, the Tornado Worlds and the Laser Radial Worlds the programme will screen on SKY Sport 1 three times over this coming weekend…

Friday 2nd May – 1500
Saturday 3rd May – 2340
Sunday 6th May - 1830
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SOF Hyeres Kiwi Results

New Zealand won silver in the Laser class and bronze in the Men’s 470 class at the ISAF Grade One French Olympic Sailing Week which wrapped up in Hyeres last weekend. Andrew Murdoch held onto second place to win silver, while Carl Evans and Peter Burling claimed a podium spot after lying 6th going into the medal race.

The final day of the regatta was light and shifty but despite this all the Olympic classes at the regatta sailed a final double-points medal race to decide the winners. New Zealand featured in the Laser, Laser Radial and Men’s 470 medal races and came away with two medals.

[ Read more ]
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Auckland International 18ft skiff Regatta

Three Australian 18ft skiffs came across the Tasman for the Harken sponsored ANZAC Regatta hosted by the Auckland Sailing Club.

The winner was 2UE ActiveAir with Kinder Caring (AUS) second overall, skippered by Brett van Munster, who is the boat-builder currently manufacturing the new 18 foot Skiffs in Australia.

The regatta was sponsored by Harken, who presented some awesome prizes (digital rig-tension gauges) to the overall winner of each day’s races, plus spot-prizes to competitors throughout the contest. Their sponsorship was much appreciated and helped make the event a great success.

By Lynn Holland (as edited by YNZ)

[ Auckland Sailing Club ]
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Zenza NZ Women’s Keelboat National Champs

Eight teams of women were on Auckland harbour over ANZAC weekend for the Zenza New Zealand Women’s Keelboat National Championships. Competing in the Farr MRXs the two day event was sailed in breezy north-easterlies of around 15 knots on day one rising to 20 knots and rain on day two.

Competition was tight although in the end consistency paid off for Yachting New Zealand’s President, Jan Dawson who successfully defended her title.

Championship Results:

1st Jan Dawson & crew (RNZYS)
2nd Melinda Henshaw & crew (TBC)
3rd Sally Garrett & crew (RAYC)

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Young 88 National Championships 2008

18 & 19 April

With 27 entries, it’s the biggest one design class keelboat racing!

With strong winds forecast for the regatta the Race Committee completed the required 5 races on Saturday, which was just as well because it was too windy to race on Sunday and that was it for the series!

The series winners were;
Line
1st ABRACADABRA, Andrew Wills
2nd TRIPLE 8, Roger Pagani (also winner of the 1st owner driver – The Tanaka Cup)
3rd WAKAHUIA, Bill Dalbeth
Handicap
1st EYE SPY, Scott Waterfield
2nd SWEENEY TODD, Vaughan Clark
3rd YOUNG RADICAL, Rod Palmer


[ RNZYS ]
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Farr 1020 National Championships 2008

19 & 20 April

Following straight after the Young 88 Nationals the Farr 1020’s lined up with their strong 11 boat fleet. With similar, strong winds forecast and a building breeze the race committee could only complete three races on Saturday before racing was abandoned for the day.

Sunday morning was quite a change and a beautiful 15 knots of wind meant that the race committee would get in the remaining five races and make this a fantastic eight race series!

The series winners were;
Line
1st HARD LABOUR, Andrew Wills (not this is not a typo that’s two in a row for Wilzy and his team!!!)
2nd DRUMS OF TIME, Aaron Young
3rd MAX HEADROOM, Philip Yuill
Handicap
1st L’AVANTI, Richard Harman
2nd CHOICE TRANSPORT, Trevor Dunn
3rd DRUMS OF TIME, Aaron Young


[ RNZYS ]
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International Moth Class Championship 2008

ANZAC Weekend

This Championship was about resurrecting the Moth class in New Zealand; an AGM was held and action plans put in place to get the association up and running again and affiliated to Yachting New Zealand. Seven competitors turned up and great racing was had! Before the event, the New Zealand team were lucky enough to have Rohan Veal here to coach, with all the sailors learning absolutely heaps and the level jumped up through the whole fleet.

The winners were…
Line
1st Andrew Brown
2nd Kevin Hall
3rd Sam England (AUS)

1st on Handicap Holly Farmer
1st Master Darren Schofield
1st Junior Sam Schofield

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Blind Sailing Worlds website launched

New Zealand will proudly host the 2009 IFDS World Blind Sailing Championship in March 2009. Based on Lake Rotorua in the central North Island, this World Championship will bring together both blind sailors and sighted support crews from around the world to compete in this prestigious international event.

Organizers have just launched the regatta website which will cover all details relating to the IFDS recognized event and will be updated with information as the competition draws nearer.

Take a look at the website through the link below.


[ 2009 Blind Sailing World Championships ]
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2008 Prime Minister’s Scholarships

The New Zealand Academy of Sport recently presented certificates to recipients for 2008 at a ceremony held at Baradene College in Remuera on April 16th.

The Prime Minister’s Sport Scholarship programme is a government initiative that enables emerging and talented New Zealand sports people to concurrently pursue tertiary study or professional development while striving for sporting excellence.

Nationwide, 320 athletes, 32 coaches, 16 officials and 30 support team members were awarded scholarships in 2008. Amongst them are 24 sailors.

They include…

Jo Aleh - Studying Public Speaking at University of Auckland
Max Andrews – Studying a Bachelor of Commerce at University of Auckland
Michael Bullot – Studying a Bachelor of Business Studies at Massey University
Matt Coutts – Studying a Bachelor of Business Studies at Massey University
Antonio Cozzolino – Studying a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Law at University of Auckland
Chris Dawson – Studying Marine Technology at UNITEC
Riley Dean – Studying a Bachelor of Transport Design at Massey University
Sarah Dunn – Studying a Bachelor of Business Studies at Massey University
Kate Ellingham – studying a Bachelor of Pharmacology at University of Auckland
Richard Ellis – Studying a Bachelor of Engineering at University of Auckland
Cushla Hume-Merry – Studying a Certificate in Sport Management & Exercise Prescription at the NZ Institute of Sport
Scott Illingworth – Studying a Bachelor of Construction at UNITEC
Josh Junior – Studying a Bachelor of Science at Victoria University
Michael Lichtwark – Studying a Bachelor of Law at University of Auckland
Blair Lindsay – Studying a Bachelor of Engineering at University of Auckland
Joshua McCormack – Studying a Bachelor of Transport Design at Massey University
Blair McLay – Studying a Bachelor of Marine Technology at UNITEC
Olivia Powrie – Studying a Bachelor of Design at UNITEC
Miranda Powrie – Studying a Bachelor of Commerce at University of Auckland
Justina Sellers – Studying a Bachelor of Health Science at AUT University
Michael Snow-Hansen – Studying a Bachelor of Engineering at University of Auckland
Blair Tuke – Studying a National Certificate in Electrical Engineering at ETCO
Geoff Woolley – Studying a Bachelor of Property at University of Auckland

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NZ's Jack Lloyd appointed VOR Race Director

New Zealander Jack Lloyd, a well known figure in international yacht racing, has joined the Volvo Ocean Race as its new Race Director. Lloyd, 54, was Chairman of the International Jury for the 2005/2006 race after serving as a member of the jury for two previous races.

Lloyd said he was looking forward to the new challenge. “I understand the need to marry sponsors’ demands with the requirement to stage a competitive and fair race for the competitors.”

“I am very much looking forward to working with the teams around the world and am delighted that I have been chosen for this role,” he added.

Lloyd has been an International Umpire since 1993 and an International Judge since 1996. He is an ISAF International Umpire Test Administrator and is Chairman of the Test Administration Group.

Lloyd has completed two America’s Cups as an umpire and jury member and has been Rules Advisor to both OneWorld in 2002-03 and Emirates Team New Zealand in the 32nd America’s Cup sailed last year in Valencia.

Starting in Alicante in Spain with an in-port race on 4 October it will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon, which takes in ports in India, Singapore and China before finishing in St Petersburg, Russia for the first time in the history of the race. Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles, stopping at around 11 ports and taking nine months to complete, the Volvo Ocean Race is the world’s premier yacht race for professional racing crews.

[ Volvo Ocean Race ]
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Dennis Connor International: Registrations open

Yachting New Zealand has heard from the Manhattan Sailing Club, New York regarding the third Dennis Conner International Yacht Club Challenge which will take place over 20th – 23rd August, 2008.

Yacht clubs from around the world will gather in New York Harbour to promote international goodwill through friendly competition. The competition will take place on J/24 club sailboats in front of the Statue of Liberty and the skyline of Manhattan.

Participating clubs are encouraged to bring a racing and a social team and in addition to the racing, there are gatherings and parties every night to promote international relations. A team from the Manukau Yacht & Motorboat Club attended in 2007 and from all reports had a thoroughly enjoyable time.

If your yacht club would like to register for the event, please submit an "Expression of Interest" on the event website through the link below. There you will also find more information about the regatta.


[ Manhattan Yacht Club: Dennis Connor International ]
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Yachting Quarterly Winter Issue

The winter issue of Yachting Quarterly is out now and available to view on the Yachting New Zealand website. Editor Zoe Hawkins has covered a range of topics including…

• Women’s match-racing
• Two-handed round North Island race
• South Pacific Cup

Click the link below for the latest issue and previous issues.


[ Yachting Quarterly ]
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Club Scene: Tasman Regional Sports Trust supports local Yacht Clubs

Nelson Yacht Club and Queen Charlotte Yacht Club in the Nelson/Marlborough region will receive support from the Tasman Regional Sports Trust through their SportAssist Programme.

The SportAssist Programme will provide support and assistance to the club’s in areas such as Communication, Volunteer Management, Membership Recruitment, Funding Advisory, Strategic Planning and Administrative Development.

The Tasman Regional Sports Trust is one of 17 Regional Sports Trusts throughout New Zealand. Their aim is to assist sport and recreation organisations to improve their management and delivery systems with a view to increasing participation and performance.

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2009 Singapore Airlines Sail Auckland Dates

Organisers of Singapore Airlines Sail Auckland have confirmed dates for 2009… the regatta will take place over 5th – 8th February 2009. Any classes interested in participating should contact info@sailauckland.org.nz
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Southern Pacific Takapuna Worlds RIBs still available

Southern Pacific Inflatables supplied many of the coach boats throughout the Takapuna Worlds and Sail Auckland events and there are still a few boats available for purchase by Yacht Clubs or Individuals.

There are two 470 RIBs which are ideal as coach or rescue craft. Both are set up with 2008 40 Evinrude ETEC motors. They have jockey consoles, towing bars with flag holders, anchor packs and are on registered road trailers. Both were new in January 2008 and are priced at $23,000 each.

And one Vortex 630 is available. This RIB makes an ideal large rescue craft or committee boat. The large volume console has a hard top bimini fitted, and has a comprehensive fitout. It is on a registered road trailer. While currently fitted with a 2007 Evinrude ETEC 150hp motor, Southern Pacific will also consider selling this RIB without the motor. Price $60,000

Please contact Geoff Harnden or Jonathan Gravit at Southern Pacific Inflatables. Ph 09 3099 111 or info@southernpacific.co.nz if you’re interested.

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Correction: Briefings 2nd April 2008

Yachting New Zealand would like to apologise for the error and make a correction to a report on the Sunburst National Championships published in Briefings of April 2nd.

The winners, Shane and Daniel Smith belong to the Pleasant Point Yacht Club in South Brighton, Christchurch and not the Mt Pleasant Club as reported.

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Attention: Subsite users

Yachting New Zealand is in the process of up-grading our website from a platform which is no longer commonly supported to a new platform to ensure that development and maintenance is simple and easy. We will continue to provide the free subsite service to affiliated Clubs, Class Associations and Regional Associations however the system for creating a new subsite or editing an existing subsite will change.

Below is a list of members who have a current subsite who we’d like to hear from to discuss the process we’ll be going through. These members will receive a letter in the post shortly; we’ve asked you to confirm that you would like to continue with the service…

29er Class, AYBA, Aquarius 22, BOP Trailer Yacht Squadron, Cambridge YMBC, Gisborne Yacht Club, Macandrew Bay Boating Club, Marsden Yacht Club, Ngaroto Sailing Club, Northcote Birkenhead Yacht Club, New Zealand Splash Class, Otago Yachting Association, Port Chalmers Yacht Club, Pigeon Bay Boating Club, Point Chevalier Sailing Club, Queen Charlotte Yacht Club, Stewarts Gully Sailing Club, Reactor Yachting Association, Taipa Sailing Club, Tamaki Yacht Club, Titahi Bay Boating Club, Timaru Yacht & Powerboat Club, Townson 32 Owners Association, Tracker 7.7 Association, Wanaka Yacht & Powerboat Club, Waikato Yacht Squadron, Waitemata Trailer Yacht Squadron, Weymouth Yacht Club, Zephyr Owners Association

We are doing our best to ensure that there will be no disruption to the service as we go through this process and ask for your understanding and cooperation.

Please contact Jodie Bakewell-White by email to jodie@yachtingnz.org.nz if you’re Club or class is on the list and you are the subsite editor.
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