It really was a weekend’s sailing of two days, one hard and rough, the other soft and fluffy.
Saturday dawned with winds from NNE ranging from 12 – 20 knots with gusts above 25 knots. The direction meant that surface conditions were uncommonly flat, a fact not lost on visiting salt water sailors.
In these [...]

The season’s South Island Championships were sailed over two days which provided different conditions. The racing on the Saturday was sailed in light conditions and the Sunday stronger winds.
Tristin Ornsby and his team on the Noelex 22 “Hard Core Pawn” were the convincing overall winners. Second place went to one of the two [...]

This years Annual Meeting of Representatives (AMR) of the NZTYA will take place at 10am Saturday 13th August 2011.  It is being held at the Ponsonby Cruising Club, Westhaven, Auckland.
We are holding the AMR this year in the North Island after a number of years of AMRs in the South Island.  [...]

The regatta was sailed over two days in light to breezy wind conditions.  The weather forecast was not good which may have put off some competitors but the weather turned out better than forecast.  Four races were held on the Saturday and two more on Sunday.  The regatta was well run and  Lake Brunner Yacht [...]

Postponement of SI TY Champs
 

The South Island Trailer Yacht Championships including the Canterbury Trailer Yacht Class and Rating Championships and The NZ Farr 5000 & 6000 Championships scheduled for 5th and 6th of March 2011 HAVE BEEN POSTPONED due to problems associated with the recent Christchurch earthquake.
 
The new date for [...]

The 2010 Annual Meeting of Representatives (AMR) was held in Dunedin on 17th July.  This is the third year  it has been held in Dunedin with most of the NZTYA executive having been based in Otago and Southland.  The AMR is where affiliated clubs, squadrons and associations of the NZTYA can have a say on [...]

This year (2010) at Lake Taupo Yacht Club, we have decided to replace the Easter Regatta with the Taupo 50 long race, but with a slightly changed format. The race will be held over two legs, day 1 being a race around the two islands on Lake Taupo, starting from the Taupo Bay, around Motutaiko [...]

Some photos taken during recent Tauranga Yacht Club yachting excursions.

A light breeze start on Saturday morning scattered the fleet across Taupo Bay. Piccolo, The Bill, Samurai, Kotuku, Cippolla and Wednesday Night Fever, played the lottery game. So great was the pressure, that Piccolo passed Samurai, - a cup of coffee that is.

By John Knotts - I purchased a Merlin (Wizard 2501) last November. I have sailed this for a full season after doing some remedial work to get the vessel seaworthy as it had been left laid up for several years.