Napier Sailing Club New Regatta - Blustery Winds Challenge Sailors

by Tim Sandall on 3 Jan 2009 Day two of the Napier Sailing Club New Year regatta again proved challenging for sailors, race management and support craft with 20 to 30 knot north westerlies sweeping through the course. With temperatures over 30 degrees, for those that could cope with the wind it was some fantastically fast sailing.

Three races were completed for the Noelex 25, OK’s, Lasers, 420’s, Javlin, F15, with all other classes completing two races. Noelex 25 Elderberry Wine skippered by Bob Witham handled the conditions well to take three bullets. In the 420’s Logan Dunning-Beck and Ben Goodwin again showed their class with two bullets and a second.

Josh Porebski dominated the Laser Radial with three bullets and was the only one to finish race three.
Luke O’Connell has carried on his from in the OK dinghy and has a dominating lead over second placed Peter Scheuerl. Oliver MacKay is having a close tussle with Keith Inglis for first place in the optimist.

Racing concludes 3rd of January with three races scheduled.

Results at the end of Day two are:

Optimist
1st Olivia MacKay; NSC
2nd Keith Inglis; Taupo/NSC
3rd Oscar Rorvik; TYPBC

P Class
1st Nathan Percy; NSC
2nd Julia Francis; WBBC

Starling
1st Keagan Weeks; NSC
2nd Jake Weeks; NSC
3rd Briar Mannering; NSC

420
1st Logan Dunning Beck/Ben Goodwin; Wakatere/NSC
2nd S Berry/V Frances; WBBC
3rd L Stevenson/S Bullock TYPBC

OK
1st Luke O’Connell; WBBC
2nd Peter Scheuerl; NSC
3rd Trent Pryce; NSC

Laser Radial
1st Josh Porebski; WBBC
2nd David Barton-Ginger; WBBC
3rd Harald Johansen; NSC

Laser
1st Chris Shannon; NSC
2nd Kent Copplestone; Manawatu
3rd Adrian Natusch; NSC

Noelex 25
1st Bob Witham
2nd Paul Redman
3rd Anne Woulfe

Div 2 Trailer Yacht
1st C Reid/E Steiner
2nd Bob Sheldrake
3rd Hans Hengst