As I’m sure you know by now the first two races of the Americas Cup are this Wednesday. Finally we’ll get to see how Emirates Team NZ stack up against Luna Rossa. The club will be open from 3pm with full bar and food service available (including the new food menu). Everyone’s going to watch this, so as you head out the door from work grab your colleagues and bring them down – just remember to sign them in. Help us make your club the best place in town to view the Americas cup. We’ve made a few tweaks to…
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On 27-29 January, Helter Skelter competed in the Bay of Islands Sailing Week, a regatta for keelboats, trailer yachts and sports boats. Helter Skelter was joined by three other Wellington boats that made the trek north – Daisy Duke, Magic Trick, and Onco Fonco. To make the most out of the week, Phil, Craig and Mikey travelled north on Saturday with the boat and were joined on Sunday by Northlanders Finn and Isabel, giving us the same crew as last year. After getting the boat prepared on Sunday, we used Monday and Tuesday to train and settle into our positions…
RPNYC will be running selection trials for the Zhik New Zealand esailing trails on 17 May at 9pm. To enter, please fill the entry form. The winner will be eligible to go on to the regional trials run by Yachting New Zealand. For further information, view the Zhik New Zealand esailing page. For those looking to get some practice in before the trials, join the Evans Bay Wednesday night esailing series.
Almost every sport has training sessions. The purpose is to practice with time to stop and discuss different aspects of your performance. When you compete in a race the idea is to be able to string all of these different aspects together. There’s a natural conflict between learning from your mistakes and racing. From a race perspective stopping and looking back during a race is the wrong thing to do. If you just stuffed up your kite drop, it’s not a good time to discuss what went wrong. You should be focusing on how to do your best for the rest…
The team on Deb and Brent on Gucci report on competing in the 2020 Nelson Regatta. The 11th Nelson Evolution Regatta was nothing but a pearler. After arriving into Nelson at 1AM, after a DNF in the Wellington – Nelson offshore race, due to lack of wind, racing for 23 hrs, with another 18hrs to go at 1 knot, it was time to retire, or not make the Nelson regatta at all. Day one, Westerlies of 5 – 6 knots, saw the first race of three around the cans get blown up by a lack of wind. Restart for race…
Wellington Ocean Sport has recently added a new boat to the fleet. She is Pugwash, which began life racing with the Club back in 1979. Pugwash is a Whiting 29 and we will be using her to teach cruising skills. Pugwash was built by Peter Sutton using the lofting and temporary frames from the plug for the production Whiting 29 glass boats. The hull is built in double diagonal treated Kahikatea over stringers and laminated frames all fastened with West System epoxy and heavy copper roves. Construction plans were minimal – really just a detailed look over how Paul’s team…
RPNYC members Michael Instone (recent academy grad), Phil Bishop (Helter Skelter owner) and Craig Ryburn (helm), joined local Bay of Islands Crew of Isabel and Kane to compete in Bay of Islands Sailing week over 22 – 24 January. Bay of Islands sailing week is a massive event with 140 boats entered across 13 divisions. The Sports Boat division had a strong showing with 14 entries. Michael Instone reports on his first bay week experience. Up front, the battle for supremacy between designers Shaw and Bieker continued, both sharing line honours with four wins each for Shaw’s Angry Dragon and Bieker’s…
We are pleased to announce that we have bought a third keelboat for Wellington Ocean Sports.
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We’re pleased to announce an update to the Wellington Ocean Sports Cruising course offerings. Cruising Crew From December Cruising Crew will be run on a dedicated cruising boat. We have reduced the number of students to four and the course will now run as two evenings (a briefing and a night sail) and two full days. We think this version of the course will offer an even better introduction into the wonderful world of cruising! Cruising Skipper Prep This is a new course offering in and will be run in Wellington. Cruising Skipper prep is designed for those who already…