21-24 February 2019 – www.portnicholsonregatta.org.nz The 20th anniversary of the Port Nicholson Regatta is going to be awesome – don’t miss out! It’s all about boats on the water, with PHRF and IRC national championships (Friday to Sunday). Burnsco are sponsoring Harbour Series with spinnaker and non-spinnaker divisions (Saturday and Sunday). There is a separate multihull division for the first time, and the Ambassadors’ Trophy Race will be held on Friday evening. All boats can enter the ridiculous Clyde Quay ‘fun race’ on Saturday afternoon. Then check out the North Sails mid-Regatta debrief. Check out the competition on the entry list here. You may want to…
Author: Conny Rohr
Merry Christmas to all of our members, friends and families – and all of you sailors and non-sailors out there. We also wish you a wonderful and healthy 2019. Have a cheerful, relaxing and safe Holiday Period. The office will be closed from Friday the 21st of December and re-opens on Monday the 7th of January.
We’re all invited to join the Coastguard Wellington for their 50th Anniversary – Open Day is on the 24th November:
With all the three Opening Days behind us, we have started the Lola Stay’s Rum Race series and opened the Dunning Thornton Offshore series yesterday with the Brothers Race. Here’s a summary of the photos and videos available from our Facebook page – you don’t have to have a login to see them – as well as a write-up about our Opening Day. 07 Oct 18 – The season started with Lowry Bay’s Opening Day in sunny but breeze conditions: Photos 2018 LBYC Opening Day 13 Oct 18 – Time for our Opening Day at RPNYC, which started off cold…
Today the Interclub Series gets under way… …with the first race at Lowry Bay Yacht Club. We are excited to be able to repeat this collaboration between all the three keel-boat racing clubs in Wellington: Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club (https://www.ebymbc.org.nz/) Lowry Bay Yacht Club (https://www.lbyc.org.nz/) Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club We are participating in each other’s opening days (7th, 13th and 22nd October) for a start and will race again together later in the season. It will be great to see a big fleet decorating the harbour! And then we have more exciting news on the sponsoring…
What a Winter Series this was! BIG THANKS to Evolution Sails – www.evolutionsails.com – https://www.facebook.com/evolutionsailsnz/ – for being the naming sponsor and for supporting our Yacht Club. We appreciate your contribution and the awesome prizes and are looking forward to having you back for a visit to Welli soon. The 1st of July did not look promising, so the start for the Winter Series 2018 and the Navy cup got delayed and moved to the 8th of July. The weather gods were not in sailing mode the following weekend either, and again the racing had to be cancelled. 3rd time lucky…
Blink arrived in Noumea after 4 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds – 2nd on PHRF, 3rd on IRC and 4th on line. WELL DONE TEAM!!! Here’s their arrival video (via Auckland Noumea Yacht Race): Ran Tan II finished first on line – congrats! Followed by Miss Scarlet, Equilibrium, Blink, Furax and Ave Gitana. Notorious and CarreraS are still on their way at this point. Click here for full results. Frantic from Sydney’s CYCA Noumea race beat Ran Tan II probably by a mile – very close racing! Check out more content and further updates on http://aucklandnoumea.com/ and Auckland Noumea Yacht Race
On Sunday, 27th May, the Ghost Fishing NZ team came along to Clyde Quay and did a fantastic job together with some of our members to clean up some of the rubbish the marina is hiding in its murky waters. See the GFNZ post below and go online to check out some of the photos taken on the day as well as the fantastic video. And don’t forget to head to Project Baseline Clyde Quay or to support the environment and team by ordering from the ‘Go Bamboo’ range. GFNZ strikes out again at marine and shore debris in the Clyde Quay.…
Next week, we’ll have Lisa Blair talking about her solo Wellington-Antarctica sail adventure – an event you don’t want to miss! On the weekends we have the 30 NM harbour race and the Commodore’s Trophy coming up before we all get our hands dirty at the Clyde Quay clean-up. Wellington – Antarctica Solo Lisa Blair Speaking Tour NZ, 15 May @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm @ Wardroom 30NM Harbour Race – Fleet Championship, 19 May @ 9:00 am @ RPNYC Start Line Commodore’s Trophy – Fleet Championship, 26 May @ 1:15 pm @ RPNYC Start Line Clyde Quay clean up, 27 May @ 9:00 am – 2:00 pm @ Clyde…
>> Change of date again!! Moved from 6th May to 20th May to now 27th May << We have been approached by the Ghost Fishing NZ team (https://www.ghostfishing.co.nz/) about doing a clean-up of Clyde Quay – sure thing we support this event and hope you all do, too. 20th May outside RPNYC 9am Registration for divers and participants starts, followed by safety briefing 10am the clean-up begins 11.30am last divers exit the water til 1pm clean-up activities continue and by 2pm all marine life should back in the water or with marine education centre, all rubbish ready for pick up…