The video coverage for the G.J. Gardner Open Team Sailing National Championships has just dropped on YouTube today. The coverage is seriously impressive and showcases team sailing for exactly what it is – fast paced, action-packed and tactically challenging! Expert commentary from Jesse Tuke also helps to talk through what’s going on in all the coverage. Make sure to go […]

From the 8th to 15th of July – 24 team sailors from all over New Zealand are heading to Rarotonga to take part in NZTSA’s winter training week. Sailors are coming from Whangarei, Mahurangi, Auckland, Nelson, Marlborough & Wanaka! It’s set to be a great week, with heaps of good sailing and other activities hopefully on the cards. This week […]

Now that the days are getting much colder we can reflect on the 2020/2021 team racing season and what schools had a season they’ll always remember! First we had our national champions, retaining the title from 2019 – Rangitoto College. The team of Lucy Leith, Naiomi Ferrissey, Caleb Armit, Joe Leith, Seb Menzies, Alex Hebberd, Josh Ferrissey & Kayla Abbott […]

The Nelson Yacht Club are currently looking to employ a team racing specialist coach for the 2021-2022 season, working specifically with the Nelson Bays Youth Team Racing Association (NBYTRA). The job includes working with up to six college in the Nelson region, with a range of ability, from those newer to the sport all the way up to teams racing […]

The 2021 edition of the G.J. Gardner Open Team Sailing National Championships was arguably the best open regatta yet. The ten competing teams got through two full round robins in two days, before the final series was unfortunately blown off by winds well in excess of 30 knots on the third and final day. Congratulations is due to the ‘Crossbred […]

The Secondary Schools Team Sailing National Championships is all over and done for another year, with the regatta this year probably consisting of the most racing that we have ever managed at the event. The team of race officials managed to fire off 603 races over the regatta, a rate of over 100 races a day on average! We had […]

Another full on day of racing complete here in Algies Bay, we’re about a third of the way through RR5 now. The overall tables up to the end of RR4 are now live!

Rangitoto College are still leading the way after Day 4 of racing, closely chased by Westlake Boys, Waimea College & Auckland Grammar. Wentworth College and Tauhara College are still locking down the silver and bronze fleets respectively, but it’s still tight at the top!

Another day of racing completed at the team sailing nationals 2021, another full on day racing from around 9 until 4 today, in a range of conditions from 5 to 15 knots throughout the day. Rangitoto and Waimea Colleges continue to fight for the top spot leading on from yesterdays racing, closely followed by Westlake Boys in third. Queen Charlotte […]

After a windy opening day at the team sailing nationals, Waimea College currently sit on top of the leader board, followed closely behind in the gold flight by Rangitoto and Westlake Boys rounding out the top three. Leading the silver fleet at this stage are the Epsom Girls and leading the bronze fleet are Christs college winning all bar one […]