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29er Association Newsletter - October 2009

by Fiona Balch on 25 Oct 2009
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29er Class Association Newsletter

11th October 2009

   

President:                Ross Whitburn      bullet989@xtra.co.nz

Secretary:                Fiona Balch           fiona.balch@xtra.co.nz

Publicity officers:    Helen Harris          stevehelen.harris@xtra.co.nz

                                Paul Meehan         paul.meehan@paradise.net.nz

 

 

 

Welcome to the second newsletter for the 29er Association. If you have any ideas of items we could add or can write an article on any aspects of your sailing or if you have been to a 29er event. We would love to hear about it. 

 We intend to email these newsletters on a regular basis to all 29er sailors, owners and other interested people. If you know of anyone not on the mailing list who would like to receive these newsletters, please let me know. My email address is stevehelen.harris@xtra.co.nz

Helen Harris (publicity officer) 

 

New owners / sailors:

 

Welcome to the following new 29er owners and sailors

Grant Beck of Auckland (sailors Logan Dunning Beck)

Phil Rountree of Auckland (sailors James Rountree)

Mike Russell of Auckland (sailors Matt Spray and Tyler Russell)

Ian Chadderton of Auckland

Grant Ellis of Auckland (sailors Felicity Ellis & Henry Wilkinson)

James Walker of New Plymouth (father & son sailors)

Sorry if I have missed anyone.

 

We hold a register of 29er owners, sailors and other interested people and would like to keep this as up to date as possible to keep everyone informed of 29er news and events. Please email me with details of anyone who you think may appreciate receiving 29er information.

 
 

Boat Owners and their locations

 

Here is a summary of current boat owners and their locations. We believe that there are another 5 – 10 boats out there which we haven’t yet located. If you know of anyone who has a 29er who isn’t on the list, please let me know so we can keep them in touch with the class.

Also please accept my apologies for any incorrect details.

 

Boat Number

Owner

City

Club

NZL023

Ravensbourne Youth Yachting Trust

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL117

Harris Family

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL118

Ross Whitburn

Dunedin

Macandrew Bay

NZL119

Grant Beck

Auckland

Wakatere

NZL120

Phil Rountree

Auckland

Kohimarama

NZL121

Mike Russell

Auckland

Bucklands Beach

NZL122

Ian Chadderton

Auckland

Howick

NZL123

Evans Family

Auckland

Kohimarama

NZL231

Ravensbourne Youth Yachting Trust

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL273

Ravensbourne Youth Yachting Trust

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL354

Ravensbourne Youth Yachting Trust

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL355

David Peirce

Tauranga

 

NZL359

James Walker

New Plymouth

 

NZL410

Lloyd Lamberg

Auckland

 

NZL411

Ravensbourne Youth Yachting Trust

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL413

Ravensbourne Youth Yachting Trust

Dunedin

Ravensbourne

NZL414

Peter Wilkinson / Grant Ellis

Auckland

Kohimarama

NZL701

Mark Berry

Wellington

 

NZL702

Peter Langley

Auckland

Howick

NZL705

Brent McKenzie

Auckland

Kohimarama

NZL1211

Fiona Balch

Dunedin

Vauxhall

 

McKenzie Brown / Little families

Auckland

Kohimarama

 

 

 

 

Recent Events:

 

New Zealand Winter Champs – Murray’s Bay October 2 – 4th 2009

These were held at Murray’s Bay between 29th Sept to 4th October..

Unfortunately the 2 day coaching session was marred by strong winds and lightning strikes on the Tuesday afternoon and the sailors were not able to train on the Wednesday due to Tsunami warnings.

The racing itself began on the Friday with a practice day and was followed on Saturday and Sunday with full racing. There were six 29ers entered for the racing so the competition was strong with sailors from all over New Zealand competing. This event should help raise the profile of the 29er class.  

The overall winners were Dan Meehan and Chris Harris of Ravensbourne, Dunedin with Chelsea Whitburn and Gabrielle Cross coming second and Phil and Tim Evans third. The sailing conditions were fairly rough with some big waves on the Sunday.

 

Helm

Crew

Club

R1

R2

R3

R4

R5

R6

R7

R8

Tot

Overall

Dan Meehan

Chris Harris

Ravensbourne Dunedin

1

1

1

2

1

1

(3)

2

12

9

Chelsea Whitburn

Gabrielle Cross

Dunedin/ Naval Point

2

(4)

2

1

3

3

1

1

17

13

Philip Evans

Tim Evans

Kohimarama

4

(5)

3

4

2

2

4

3

27

22

Alex Dyet

Claudia Peirce

Torbay/ Tauranga

(5)

2

5

5

5

4

2

4

32

27

Andrew McKenzie

Sam McKenzie

Kohimarama

(7) DNC

3

4

3

6

5

7

DNC

7

DNC

42

35

Lexie Langley

Michael Rogers

Howick

3

6

6

(7) DNS

4

6

7 DNC

7 DNC

46

39

 

 

 

Coming events:

 

Below is a list of the main 29er upcoming events. It is by no means a complete list so let us know if we have forgotten any events. We would welcome any feedback you may have and any additional events you believe could be added to this list.  

29er National Campionships

This will be held from 26 March 2010 to 28 March 2010 at Auckland Sailing Club, OkahuBay, Auckland. The notice of race is attached to this newsletter.

 Other events

 

·                     Otago Zone Development 29er coaching – 25-26th October, Wanaka Yacht Club

·                     12’ skiff regatta – Lake Taupo Yacht Club – 7-8th November

·                     Sir Peter Blake Regatta – Auckland - 5th and 6th December

·                     Singapore Airlines Sail Auckland ISAF regatta – 3 - 7 Feb 2010

·                     Otago centerboard champs – March 13th at Vauxhall Yacht Club

·                     Otago Festival regatta – 27th 28th Feb at Otago Yacht Club

·                     Mighty River Power regatta Taupo – March 13th and 14th

·                     South Island 29er Champs - Dunedin – March final date to be advised

·                     North Island 29er Champs – venue and date still to be decided (perhaps the North Island sailors could get together and decide on a venue and date for this regatta)

·                     Youth Sail at Naval Point Yacht Club 7-10th April 2010

  

International Events

 

 

·                     Sail Sydney ISAF regatta – 5-8th December – entry by 20th Nov  

·                     Sail Melbourne ISAF regatta – 14-19th December - Sandringham, Victoria

·                     2009/2010 Australian National Championships – Cruising Yacht Club of South AustraliaAdelaide29th December 2009 to 4th January 2010

·                     29er worlds - Grand Bahamas 2 – 9 Jan, 2010

·                     29er youth worlds – Istanbul, Turkey, 8 – 17 July, 2010

  

Australian Competition

 

A couple of Auckland crews are currently considering attending the Australian National champs in Adelaide over New Year.

 

Martyn Sly, the President of the Australian 29er Association is keen to see NZers come over and compete and is happy to assist anyone in finding a boat to charter and accommodation. The Nationals are being sailed out of the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia from 29 Dec to 4 Jan. This is followed by the Australian Youth Champs at LargsBay (just down the road) from the 6th to 10th of Jan. Martyn's contact details can be found on the Australian 29er website.

 

Another Auckland crew are hoping to compete in the Sail Melbourne regatta in late December. 

 

Auckland 29er Club Sailing

 

Kohimarama Yacht Club and Howick Sailing Club have joined forces to run 29er club sailing on alternate Sundays for the 2009/2010 season commencing this Sunday (111 Oct) at Howick. By doing this they hope to have a minimum of 5 x 29ers racing each Sunday, building to around 8 in the second half of the season. 29er sailors from other clubs are very welcome to join in.

 

 

Yachting NZ briefings - 23 September 2009

In case you missed the 23rd September 2009 edition of Yachting NZ briefings, here is an extract

Youth Team Nomination & Selection Guidelines

The Nomination and Selection guidelines for the 2010 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team are now available on the Yachting New Zealand website.
 
Sailors with an eye on representing in the 29er class should note that even though the pointscore will be based only on the 29er National Championships in this division. They will need to have sailed in one of the youth classes at the Sail Auckland regatta.

This year men and women will sail the same equipment in the double handed, single handed and windsurf disciplines in the trials. The multihull once again will be decided by the selectors based on nominations from the double-handed pointscore, and also the Hobie 16 National Championships.

The venue for the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships 2010 will be the Atakoy Marina, located on the EuropeanCoast of Istanbul at the southern end of the BosphorusStrait in Turkey.

Istanbul 2010 will mark the 40th edition of the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, the world’s top youth sailing event, with over 300 young sailors from 60 plus nations expected to attend. Competition will take place from 8-17 July across eight events, open to competitors younger than 19 years on
31 December 2010

The 2010 event will see the return of the International 29er to the equipment list however this year it will be a standalone open class alongside the International 420 as the Boys & Girls single handed equipment.

Many previous winners of the Youth Worlds have gone on to become sailing superstars such as Volvo Ocean Race winner Stuart Bannatyne, triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie (GBR) and three-time America’s Cup winning skipper Sir Russell Coutts.

 

World Champions

 

Steven Thomas of Australia repeated his title of 29er World Champion adding Blair Tuke of New Zealand as his crew this time around.  The duo carried on their top sailing from the 49er Worlds the week prior pairing up and stepping into the 29er to place no worse than 3rd, and sailing so consistently they were able to not sail the final 2 races.

 

The battle on the final day was between the Outteridge siblings also of Australia.  In the end big brother Nathan with skipper Lauren Jeffries out sailed his sister to take 2nd overall. Haylee with Iain Jensen as crew finished 3rd overall just 2points behind.

 

Max Richardson and Alex Groves of GBR were the top placing youth team finished 4th in the Gold fleet while Ida Marie Baad Nielsen and Marie Thusgaard Olsen of Denmark won the top placing female team.

 

The 54 boat silver fleet was won by Americans Paris Henken with Chris Rast as crew, another 49er Olympic sailor in the front of the boat.  The Bronze fleet was won by Sinem Kurtbay and Ville Bergman of Finland with the Emerald fleet winners Casey McDermott and Chantelle Boudreau of Canada.

 

The186 teams represented 20 countries including entries from Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and United Arab Emirates as well as established European, America, Argentina and the ever strong Australians show the broad reach and popularity of the skiff and acceptance worldwide The 29er is an open class in the ISAF Youth World Championship.  This was the largest 29er World Championship it the classes 10 year history.

Also sailing in the 29er worlds were Lorenzo Franceschini and Riccardo Camin, the current Italian 29er champions who sailed in the 29er South Island Champs in Dunedin in March 2009. They finished a very good 8th placing overall.

 

Gear for sale:

 

 

We would like to include a section for any second hand 29er gear currently for sale. If you have any excess gear, let us know and we will include it in a newsletter to all 29er sailors, owners and interested people.   

 

Gear wanted:

 

 

We would like to include a section for any second hand 29er gear wanted. If you need any gear, let us know and we will include it in a newsletter to all 29er sailors, owners and interested people. 

 

Grant Beck of Auckland is currently looking for an old second hand gennaker for training. If anyone knows of one, please contact him on  grant@adhesivetechnologies.co.nz 

 

MacKay Boats

 

MacKay Boats are the New Zealand representatives for all 29er boats and parts. Contact Dave MacKay (09) 426 4306 or see their website for additional information www.mackayboats.com

 

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