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We had five teams racing at this year’s Lower South Island Team Sailing Regatta, Christchurch Boys, Timaru Boys A, Timaru Boys B, Mount Aspiring A & Wanaka/Otago Girls Combined. With a wide range of abilities in the fleet the decision was taken to split the fleet into an A and B flight to give the teams more competitive racing so […]
Read moreThe 2021 CNI Teams Regionals, hosted by Lake Taupo Yacht Club took place over three beautiful days of racing, with a wide range of wind that gave teams a really challenging regatta. 11 teams from all over the North Island travelled over for the regatta and it was well worth the trip! Napier Boys High put in a stellar performance […]
Read moreEntries for the Secondary School National Championships are open now! The entry form is attached the the Notice of Race which can be found below. Early entries and expressions of interest are encouraged. After the 2020 edition was cancelled due to Covid-19 more teams than ever should be ready and raring to go for the regatta this year!
Read moreNZTSA are happy to publish that we will be running an umpires training course just prior to the school’s national championships in April. Provisional dates for the course will be the 24th & 25th of April, the weekend immediately preceding the nationals week. This is being run in co-ordination with Yachting NZ and is a great idea to do for […]
Read moreTeams arrived for the third days racing to be met with a very light northerly breeze, after two days of great conditions this was going to be a very different test for the teams. After the morning briefing, the sailors started to make their way upwind to the course to get crack on with the final round robin. The combined […]
Read moreSailors arrived at Royal Akarana for the second day of the regatta to be greeted with a light northerly breeze, with Okahu Bay presenting absolutely perfect conditions for more teams racing. After the coaches briefing recapping some of the learning points from day one, all the teams hit the water eager to have another crack at each other. Whangarei Boys […]
Read moreGrey skies and gusty conditions greeted the six teams sailing in the NZTSA Christmas Regatta, sponsored by Abaco on Jervois. The conditions soon burned off and even before the briefing was held the sun was starting to shine through. Teams spent the morning battling around the gusty and shifty racecourse in Okahu Bay, finishing 24 races before heading ashore for […]
Read moreJust to update teams with some info about logistics for the time of the regatta – if the America’s Cup racing choose to race on one of the inner courses, then some roads around Orakei and Devonport will have some restrictions on. The main way this could affect our regatta is that between 13:00 and 20:00, Tamaki Drive (eastbound) will […]
Read moreWe are now just over a week away from the NZTSA Christmas Regatta, sponsored by Abaco on Jervois who are very kindly providing some travelling teams with accommodation for the regatta. There are sailors confirmed attending from more than 10 schools from the top to the bottom of NZ, from the North Island we’ve got sailors from: Whangarei Boys Whangarei […]
Read moreI am sure a few of you have been concerned about the chances of Covid flaring up again, we have been as well… But we have been planning well in advance and doing everything in our control so that what happened in 2020 doesn’t happen again, with regard to cancelling regattas and everything that surrounds them. We are planning on […]
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