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rampA recent northerly storm has battered the lower half of our wooden ramp to pieces. NSCC has accepted the club's offer of assistance in making it ready for the necessary repairs. An enthusiastic group of club members helped dismantle the damaged section and it's just a matter of time before it becomes useable again.cool asslideshowbutton1
Go to the Opti Portal to view 2 great videos of sailing off Wakatere
- in 20 knots
- "On the water video action of Wakatere's winter opti coaching, including interviews and sailing tips" by coach James Roberts

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Wakatere junior regatta

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arrThe long awaited basement upgrade has started. We will have new toilets, showers and changing rooms at the south end and a new training room at the north end. Some disruption is inevitable. Thank you to those members who have made their lockers available for storage. A container has taken up residence on the grass area of the compound to accommodate boats and equipment. Work is progressing well, new floors are in and inner walls are partly constructed. A third garage door giving access to patrol boats is being installed.

John & Pauline Ellingham

John and Pauline Elllingham, newly inducted life members of Wakatere BC

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News

Optimists continue winter training in preparation for the Nationals

Wakatere Boating Club and Narrow Neck Beach are a lively scene over the weekends whatever the weather. Training programmes co-ordinated by the parents involved, with the assistance of club and outside coaches, have continued through the winter months and now move into a spring series. This is proving popular with club members and the wider Auckland optimist sailing community who are just as keen to become familiar with the wide variety of conditions of this area of the Waitemata Harbour.

Optimist Nationals 2011 at Wakatere, 21 April

Wakatere BC is hosting the 2011 NZ Optimist Nationals which takes place over Easter. We will begin providing general information on a dedicated site in the near future. You'll be able to access the new site through this site and the NZIODA website.

In the meantime, preparations are underway at Wakatere with a renovation to the basement area of the clubrooms, which will improve changing room facilities; and committees have been formed to take care of different areas of the national event.

If anyone living locally is able to billet sailors and their families, or will be out of town over Easter and are prepared to offer or rent their home, please let us know. Also, if you are able to offer goods for spot prizes we'd love to hear about that too. Contact the Optimist 2011 Nationals committee by email.

Wakatere Sailors Overseas 2010  UPDATED 5 AUGUST

The annual migration of Wakatere sailors to the northern hemisphere is nearing it's final stages. Kate Ellingham begins sailing in the RSX 2010 Worlds on the 29th of August, the list below has a link to the event, and results for sailors who have recently taken part in international regattas.

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  • 29/8 - 4/09/2010 Kate Ellingham competes in 2010 RS:X Men’s and Women’s World Championships Kerteminde, Denmark. Racing starts: Sunday 29th August (1100 hours local time) Medal races on: Saturday 4th September Regatta website: http://worldwindsurfingchampionships2010.rsxclass.com/
  • Logan Dunning-Beck & James Turner, ISAF Youth Worlds, Istanbul, Turkey .Placed 14/36 with three placings in the top 10.  http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/

Club 2010 prizegiving well attended

A capacity turnout on Friday night for the 2009/2010 season prizegiving to celebrate Wakatere sailor's achievements. The top awards went to:

  • Yachtsman of the Year for Most Meritorious Skipper Chris Steele
  • Waterwise Cup for Junior Sportsmanship Sam Barnett
  • Hughes Trophy for Most Guns in Season Points James Roberts (7)
  • Top Junior Female Cup for Top Junior Female Ellie Copeland
  • Wakatere Paddle for Outstanding Female Sailor Kate Ellingham
  • Hayman Rosebowl for Most Helpful Senior Member Steve Oliver
  • Junior Merit Trophy (Mabee Cup) for Meritorious Junior Logan Dunning-Beck
  • Wakatere Commodore Award for Outstanding Achievement John & Pauline Ellingham

    • Laser Freshwater Champs, Pupuke 15-16 May 2010

    Good results from a couple of Wakatere old timers - Peter Kempkers 2nd overall and 2nd master in the full rig and Pete Thomas 3rd overall and 1st master in the wimp's radial rig. Full results at homepages.ihug.co.nz

    AGM

    The Annual General Meeting will be held at the clubhouse on Tuesday 1 June, 8.15pm.

    Wakatere Sailor to Sail in Youth Olympics

    Jack Collinson has been selected to go to the ISAF Youth Olympics in Singapore next August. He will be sailing a Byte C11.

    Wakatere wins Keel Boat Nationals, RAYC 1-2 May 2010

    Stefan Goldwater representing the Wakatere Boating Club wins the 2010 Club Marine National Keelboat Championship in convincing style... Click here for more

    2010 North Harbour Champs, Wakatere 24 Apr 2010

    The NH Champs were held on the afternoon to allow for winter sports in the morning. The wind was 8 - 10 knots off shore and a good turn out was achieved. Click here for results.

    Season Line & Handicap Points

    Final results have now been posted. Click here for Line results Click here for Handicap results

    2010 Optimist Nationals, Whitianga Easter UPDATED

    The 2010 Opti Nationals in Whitianga have been won by Kimberly Lim from Singapore from Jayvee Buchanan from Christchurch, who was the first NZer.

    There was an official opening ceremony on Wed 31st March and racing began April 1st. Wakatere had a record 32 entries across the open and green fleet. The regatta was plagued by a lack of wind early on which filled in as the series progressed, though the Teams racing had to be cancelled to allow more races to be held.

    Markus Somerville was the top Wakatere sailor in Open Fleet, finishing in 13th position overall, the fourth NZer and qualifying for a spot in the World's team.

    Tim Adair won 1st place for his age group (13 yrs). He also achieved 14th NZ’er in his first Nationals & in his first open season.

    Jonathon Weston was top Wakatere sailor in the Green Fleet finishing 2nd... Click on the Wakatere Optimist portal for more. Results & reports at optimistnationals.org.nz/

    2010 Starling Results

    Starling Traveller Series

    The Starling Traveller Series is like a Marathon of sailing. There are 9 regattas of which your best 6 count. They are held from Tauranga to Hibiscus Coast, Manly over a 6 month duration and totalling 52 races. There were 120 sailors competing, compared with 96 in the nationals. The winner was James Roberts on 173.5pnt ahead of Mahia Pepper 173.0 points, third was Romano Chung then Matthew Kempkers 4th. An excellent result for Wakatere wtih 3 of the top 4 spots.James won the traveller series and Mahia the Asia Pacific/ Super city regatta at Torbay on the weekend...

    Super City Regatta

    The Super City Regatta at Torbay Apr 8-10. has a 1.5x points value and Mahia had a stunning run of success. 2.1,1,2,1,1,2,1. This is his second regatta in a row won in convincing style. All aspiring sailors should look at Mahia as an example of how far you can progress in a year. He was chased hard in several races by Oscar Rorvk who came second and Yuri Cowan did well sailing starling for the first time... To read more, click on the link to the Starling Portal.

    2010 Hobie Nationals, Takapuna Easter

    Wakatere sailors won both the Open & Youth titles in the Hobie Nationals held at Takapuna at Easter. Grant Beck & Alex Maloney (MBSC) won the open fleet while Luke Stevenson (TYPBC) and Alex Munro won the youth fleet. Click here for results

    2010 Club Champs

    The club champs were held over three weekends. Congratulations to:
    Alan Turner Optimist Open
    Jonathon Weston Optimist Green
    Kelsey Smith Starling
    Mike Keeton Lasers
    Russell Wood OKs
    Kevin & Elizabeth Whitehead Sunbursts
    Geoff Shearman Frostbite
    Izzy Hawkins Techno

     

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