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Optimist Newsletter
7 February 2007
champion of champions
April 2007. Congratulations to Karl Purdie who as the OK Dinghy Champion this season was a convincing winner of the Champion of Champions event
held Anzac Day afternoon. This was sailed in the club sunbursts with Karl notching up six 1sts and one 2nd. The competition for the other places
was a lot closer with Phil Williams (420 champion) taking 2nd place and Josh Porebski (P Class Champion) taking 3rd.
nzl yachting trust youth team 2007
Congratulations to Josh Junior (Laser), and Emma and Sarah Berry (Girls 420) from WBBC who have been
selected for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team 2007. The ten member team, who was selected based on performance at key regattas this season, will travel to Kingstown, Canada to represent New Zealand at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF Youth World Championships 2007.
Other Wellington sailors who qualified for the team are Cushla Hume-Merry (Laser Radial), and Tim Coltman & Ben Goodwin (Boys 420).
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lumino sunburst nationals 2007
Congratulations to Greg and Finn Wright the 2007 National Champions - third time for Greg but first for Finn.Handicap winners were Paul and Oakley Marsh.
Website and results >>
wbbc sailors in the ynz high performance academy and youth squads
Congratulations to Josh Junior, Matthew Steven (Lasers), Sarah Berry and
Emma Berry (470) who have been selected as part of the fifty two strong Yachting New Zealand High Performance Academy. Matthew
Steven(Laser) and Hayley Hume-Merry (Laser Radial) have been selected for the National Youth Squad.
ok dinghy big wave classic
This was at New Plymouth last weekend and was won by Steve McDowell with other Worser Bay sailors Karl Purdie
and Matt Stechmann finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively. Congratulations to Steve who was also awarded the
Ralph Roberts Trophy as the winner of the 2006 - 2007 OK Dinghy Summer Series.
hebtro trophy 2007
ANDIAMO - WINNER OF HEBTRO TROPHY 2007
TC says "a magnificent effort from all those who helped on the day, the keelboat crews from RPNYC, and our sponsors. A big thank you to all concerned."
Our celebrity Owen Rutter helped skipper the winning boat Andiamo (Andrew Taylor) to victory but was not quite as successful in the afternoon match racing event which was staged in the Youth Scheme E6s and created a lot of excitement for the spectators.
We hope everybody enjoyed the day and our junior sailors enjoyed the taste of keelboat sailing. Preliminary indications are that we have fairly comfortably exceeded our fundraising target of $10K to go towards junior and youth sailing.
Thank you again to our sponsors:
Aluminum Extrusion Co
Amstore
Dockside Restaurant
Eastern Suburbs Sports Trust
Fuji Xerox
Harrison Grierson
Inside
Inspire Group
Island Bay/Strathmore Butchery Ltd
Mahoney Corporation
Meridian Insurance Brokers
Noise Control Services
Novak + Middleton Architects
OEM
Romulus Consulting Group
Go Wellington (formerly Stagecoach)
Villa Melina
Walker Builders
Waterford Security
Wellington HRV
Williams and Adams
Photos
 hyundai youthsail 07
(18 - 21 April)
National Match Youth Racing Championships This event was organised by the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. Congratulations to the RPNYC/WBBC team of Josh Junior, Matthew Steven and Chris Jones, who, after losing to Phil Robertson's RNZYS team in the finals of the CentrePort Regatta in February, this time ran out the winners through a reversal of the CentrePort result.
As National Champions the team was presented with the Warren "Wolfie" Williams Memorial Cup by the event sponsor Steven Dyke. Warren Williams was Commodore of Muritai Yacht Club when he passed away very recently and the cup is a fitting tribute to his ardent support of the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust Youth Scheme and of youth development in general.
YNZ Youth Team Selection Trials Perfect sailing conditions prevailed in Wellington with clear sunny skies for the final day of racing last Saturday. Breeze of up to 12 knots allowed for an on time start to racing after two days abandonment in the regatta due to gale force winds. All four fleets competing sailed five races on Saturday to complete the series.
Hyundai YouthSail 07 was the last and most important regatta to count towards selection for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team which will represent New Zealand at the ISAF Youth World Championships in Canada this July. The team will be announced by Yachting New Zealand tomorrow, Thursday 19 April.
In the RS:X windsurfing, Josh Nixon came close to a clean sweep, winning all but one of the nine races sailed in the regatta. Nixon was so dominant his nearest rival, visiting Australian windsurfer, Alisha Kawalla was 15 points adrift at the conclusion of the regatta.
Richard Ellis of Kohimarama Yacht Club in Auckland was third overall, and the second boy, while Justina Sellers of Howick Sailing Club was fourth overall and second girl.
Josh Junior from host club Worser Bay Boating Club in Wellington, was another stand-out performer at Hyundai YouthSail 07. Junior finished eight points clear of club-mate Mathew Steven in the Laser class. He didn't finish outside the top two, scoring an impressive six wins from eights races.
Andy Maloney of Auckland took out the Laser Radial class with four wins from five races on the water on the final day. Sam Meech from Tauranga was second overall.
Cushla Hume-Merry, another Wellington local was third overall and first girl to finish, making her the favourite for the girl's single-handed position in the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team.
Tim Coltman and Ben Goodwin have won the 420 class in a close fought battle where the leading pair changed numerous times. The pair is from Muritai Yacht Club in Wellington. Paul Snow-Hansen and Blair Tuke were second overall five points behind the winners.
Sarah and Emma Berry from Worser Bay Boating Club were the top girls in the 420 class and finished in third overall in the fleet of 21. The Berry sisters were New Zealand's representatives at last years ISAF Youth World Championships.
For news, images, movie clips and full results visit the regatta website.
Full coverage of all events at the
Regatta website.
View the TV3 Hyundai Sports Tonight segment on Josh Junior, and Sarah and Emma Berry.
View Media Reports.
toyota optimist nationals 2007
TEAM WORSER BAY AT THE OPENING CEREMONY
Napier turned on some stunning weather for the 2007 Toyota Opti Nationals. The regatta was held over five days under cloudless skies.
The wind was a frustrating 4 to 6 knot sea breeze for the whole 15 races over five days making sailing conditions very challenging for the
sailors. While these conditions were great for our Green fleet sailors it proved to be the downfall for our Open fleet sailors who all
struggled with the light and shifty conditions.
The Green fleet sailed seven races spread over three days but unlike our Open sailors, revelled in the lighter conditions. Well done to Jamie Middleton and William Novak who both ended up on the podium and special congratulations to Sarah Novak who had never sailed a race before going to the Nationals and managed to complete the whole regatta.
Green Fleet (54 sailors)
Jamie Middleton 1st overall, 1st 11 years age group, 1st female
William Novak 9th overall, 3rd 11 years age group
William Eastman 11th
Ken Tildesley 22nd
Sarah Novak 39th
Hugo McCarthy-Bain 48th
Open Fleet (167 sailors)
Adam Middleton 33rd overall, 24th New Zealander
James de Lisle 105th
Ted Taylor 152nd
Full results
Photos
laser nationals 2007
JOSH ON THE WAY TO A BULLET
Congratulations to Josh Junior on a fantastic third placing overall. The regatta report for day 4 sums it up as follows "a fantastic achievement in this highly competitive class. He had a win today, to make a total of three wins from the regatta".
Full results at
www.nzlaser.org/
natslinkpage.htm
wellington laser champs
18 March 2007
Laser Radial Results
Laser Results
420 training regatta
18 March 2007
Results
420/470 north island champs
Optimist regatta
24, 25 February
Results
Sail Auckland regatta
(9 - 12 February) Congratulations and well done to the Worser Bay sailors mentioned below-:
Laser
Josh Junior 7th, (5th NZer and 1st Youth)
Matthew Steven 20th (2nd NZ Youth)
Chris Jones 32nd
Laser Radial Women
Hayley Hume-Merry 10th (2nd Youth)
Laser Radial Men
Bruce Jones 14th
470 Class
Sarah and Emma Berry 12th (1st women's youth)
Full results at www.sailauckland.org.nz/results.htm#2007
centreport match racing regatta
(5 - 8 February 2007) Congratulations to Josh Junior, Matthew Steven, and Chris Jones who, sailing as RPNYC Red,
finished 2nd in the above regatta. This is a fantastic result, improving from a previous best of 5th to achieving the
first podium finish for the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust Youth Scheme since the scheme was founded five years ago.
The event was sailed in Elliott 6 keelboats with four New Zealand teams, three from Australia and one from New Caledonia,
sailing one against one as in the Americas Cup.
Josh's team finished top of the round robin series with 11 wins out of
14 matches, won the semi finals 2 - 0 and then in the final, which could quite easily have gone the other way after
wins in the first two matches, were unfortunate to go down 2 -3.
The RPNYC Blue team of Jonathan Clough, Carl Syman, and Matthew Clough finished 6th and had the satisfaction of two wins against the 2nd placegetter in the round robin series.
www.rpnyc.org.nz/rpnyc/frame_regattas.html
muritai junior regatta
(10 February 2007) Five races were sailed in an easing southeasterly with 50 odd boats
entered. There were no P Class and with the exception of a 420 from Kapiti Boating Club only WBBC and
MYC were represented.
Adam Middleton lead the way in the A fleet with five wins from five races and taking out the Wellington Optimist title. James de Lisle and William McVeagh followed Adam in 2nd & 3rd place respectively.
In the B fleet Jamie Middleton made it a double, winning every race to win the B division. William Novak made a late comeback, after missing the first race, to score two 3rd and a 5th ending up 5th overall. Finn Wright enjoyed himself, finishing 8th overall, even though he was dragged out of the shower after race 4 to sail in the last race of the day and Ken Tildesley sailed two races scoring a 7th & 6th. Even Jo Tildesley managed to get out in one of the MYC training boats for some secret training...!
Well done to everyone who sailed, you all did really well. Many thanks also to Adam Emerali who spent the day on the water coaching the WBBC sailors during the regatta.
Full results
worser bay family day 2007
FINN WRIGHT RACES TO THE LOLLY SCRAMBLE
(6 February 2007) A beautiful day at Worser Bay!
A full program of fun events for young and old.
Eight parents lined up on the start line in their Optimist dinghies.
The kids ran the start box and provided high volume encouragement and coaching advice.
Sailing an Optimist without a rudder brought out the innovators.
Some realised that the solution was to sail it like a Windsurfer, others tried, less successfully to swim with it in tow.
The kayak race around the keeler, Montego Bay in the bay provided a great challenge and TC our Commodore was piped on the ramp.
Sea biscuit race up the black hole and out into a brisk northerly provided navigational and rotational challenges.
The crews of the rescue boats spent all day towing sea biscuits until called in for the lolly scamble.
Then we all went home .. A great day at Worser Bay.
Parents Race in Optimists: Steve Macris
Crews Race: David Tildersley
Ladies Race: Shelley Pearson
Single Handed Race: Nigel Lloyd
Optimist with No Rudder: Adam Middleton
Kayak race: Oakley Marsh
Photos
420 world champs 2007
Finally after 17 races for men and 12 for the women's fleet it is all over with a fantastic result for Worser Bay sailors.
Congratulations to Rowan Swanson (with Bruce Kennedy from Tauranga BC as crew), in achieving a podium finish - 3rd place behind the
two crews that carried on from where they left off at last year's worlds held in Spain.
In the Women's regatta it was a 1, 2, 3, 4 sweep for New Zealand and congratulations too to Sarah and Emma Berry who finished
fourth in a fairly close contest between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed boats. They also earned 1st women under 16yrs Trophy, 1st women
under 18yrs Trophy and Youngest crew at Worlds Trophy.
Josh Porebski (who has just stepped up to the class) and Ben Hanns were the next best placed WBBC crew finishing 15th in the
Men's Silver fleet.
Full results
www.420sailing.org.nz
YNZ report www.yachtingnz.org.nz/
wellington anniversary weekend regatta
sunburst north island champs
(January 2007) Around 65 boats, with the largest fleets in the Sunburst, Laser and Starling
classes contested seven races over two days of strong, and at times gusty, winds. Racing on
Monday was abandoned due to the conditions.
New WYA Champions include:
Optimist: Courtney Macris
Laser: Josh Junior
Laser Radial: Niall Pearson
Sunburst: Greg and Finn Wright (also winners of North Island Sunburst Regatta held concurrently)
420: Leah Monchur and Ben Hanns
Hon mentions to Emma Berry (3rd in Starlings), Matthew Steven (2nd in Lasers), Bruce Jones (2nd Laser Radial)
, Nigel Lloyd and Karen Stevens (3rd Sunburst).
Results in the Sunburst North Island Champs were:
1st Greg Wright
3rd Nigel Lloyd
6th Brett Linton
10th Andrew Paterson
13th Maurice Scott
18th Jason Milburn
20th Mike Gould
Full results
12' skiff inter-doms
This contest is now over with Glen Armstrong and Tim Faulkner As Good As It Gets, improving from last week to 9th place and Jason Parkin with stand-in crew from Auckland
Ben Pefluiter This Way Up, moving up to 15th. The individual title went to an Australian crew
but the NZ team (which includes the two WBBC skiffs), carried off the Inter-Dominion Trophy yet
again.
Results
tanner & tauranga cups
(January 2007) Congratulations to Stacey Swanson (representing Manawatu-Wanganui) who finished 3rd
(including a race three bullet) in the Tanner Cup competition in Nelson. Josh Porebski (representing Wellington) came in 11th.
The Tanner Cup regatta is sailed in P class and
involves a selected representative from each province. It was notable for two things
this year. Firstly, as identified by various media sources females outnumbered males and secondly, extremely light conditions were encountered as the Nelson sea breeze failed to
appear resulting in very tight finishes in four of the races.
In contrast, the
Tauranga Cup (open to all P Class skippers)
fleet battled 4.5m tides and up to 30kts on Tuesday, giving the WBBC sailors a chance to show their true form!
WBBC sailors' results:
7th Stacey Swanson
19th Josh Porebski
28th Shelley Pearson
35th Jackson MacFarlane
Full results at www.nyc.tasman.net
Primary Schools' Regatta
(6 December 2006) Congratulations to James de Lisle who made a clean sweep winning all four races. William McVeagh finished fourth,
only a couple of points behind the second and third placegetters.
Well done to both - their combined points meant a fairly decisive result for Haitaitai school as the top competing school.
School results
Individual results
sport awards 2006
JOSH JUNIOR SAILING IN CORK
college sport awards
Josh Junior (WBBC) has been awarded Yachtsman of the Year at the College Sport awards ceremony on Sunday night. Well done!
College Sport report (PDF, 1MB)
College Sport image (smaller file)
sports wairarapa awards
Emma and Sarah Berry won the "other sports" category in the Sports Wairarapa awards. All the nominees in this category had competed in
Europe in various sports so it is a great recognition of Emma and Sarah's achievements with the YNZ Youth Team in England, then competing the 420 Worlds in Spain plus the three other regattas they competed in overseas.
tanner cup trials
(December 2006) Congratulations to Tim Coltman who won the Starling Match Racing Trials at Worser Bay, and to Josh Porebski who
won the Tanner Cup P Class Trials, also held at Worser Bay.
Once confirmed by WYA they will represent the Wellington Region at the corresponding events at the Nationals to be held in Nelson late January.
Ben Hanns was runner-up in the Starling trials and Jackson MacFarlane in the P class.
north island laser champs
(December 2006) Ten Worser Bay sailors competed at the North Island Laser Champs on 2-3 December 2006. In the Open class Josh Junior was best placed with a
podium finish of 2nd. In the Radials, Cushla Hume-Merry narrowly missed 1st (scoring 2,1,1,3,3) to achieve 2nd. In the Apprentice Master/Master/
Grand Master Laser division, Mike Hood was the best placed Worser Bay sailor with a 4th.
Full results are at www.ltyc.org.nz.
OK Dinghy Regatta Napier
(2-3 December 2006) Whilst we were (for once) enjoying great sailing conditions back here in Wellington, the OK sailors were facing a cold SW
wind of 20 to 25kts on Saturday, Sunday did bring sunny Napier skies, 5 to 8 knots of wind and 27 degrees celsius.
Only two WBBC sailors there but strong consistent performances by both, saw Steve McDowell win the regatta with Karl Purdie second.
Then a fairly sizeable points gap back to 3rd. The next regatta in the series (counting for double points) is the OK Nationals at WBBC on
February 3 - 6 2007.
ok/elliot 5.9 dinghy regattas
(18 November 2006) At Turangi, the Wakatere/Worser Bay Elliott 5.9 of Simon Manning, Brett Linton and one other overcame the setback of a
broken gooseneck in one race to finish 2nd overall.
The OK Dinghies were also at Turangi, where Karl Purdie, up against the usual intense competition, plus a couple of Volvo sailors who have
entered the class emerged as regatta winner.
optimist north island champs
(18 November 2006) Seven Worser Bay sailors competed in the North Island Optimist Champs at Taupo. Well done to all with Adam Middleton best placed in the Open
fleet, 16th out of 109 boats.
In the Green fleet Jamie Middleton was best placed of the WBBC sailors with a 24th out of 53 boats - including
a 1st in race 4. For many sailors it takes years of sailing before the first experience of gunsmoke so well done Jamie!
Open fleet (109 boats)
Adam Middleton, 16th
James de Lisle, 51st
Ted Taylor, 91st
William McVeagh, 100th
Open results
Green fleet (53 boats)
Jamie Middleton, 24th
William Eastman, 27th
Tim Hall, 48th
Green fleet results
worser bay regatta
JOSH POREBSKI DEMOS GREAT DOWN WIND FORM
The wind blew, the locals came and a good number of sailors from around the region pitted their skills against the
strong northerly. A new trophy became an impromptu addition to the presentations - a broken Optimist rudder. This was not the first broken rudder
of the day for Adam Middleton. After breaking the rudder pin in the first race, he borrowed his sister's rudder, then subsequently snapped this in the
second race.
Contenders for the Carnage Cup were bent and broken masts, snapped rudders, broken bottom sections, ripped sails...a grand dollar value
of approximately $3,050! The winner - Louise Daley - with 2 boat vs. boat incidences and a broken mast.
Photos
Results
p and starling north island champs
(October 2006) At Napier Stacey Swanson was the highest placed Worser Bay sailor (7th) in the 48 strong P Class fleet.
Rowan Swanson carried the honours (10th) out of the 63 boats in the Starlings.
Regatta website
P Class results
Starling results
420/ok dinghy regatta at takapuna
(October 2006) Congratulations to Paul Rhodes who won the OK Dinghy Regatta at Takapuna last weekend.
In the 420 mixed fleet regatta at the same
venue Sarah and Emma Berry finished with a 13th overall.
Regatta results
new caledonian optimist champs
(October 2006) Well done Adam Middleton who has just completed the New Caledonia Optimist Championships with the results showing an 8th place overall (4th Kiwi) in a 50 boat fleet.
Adam's report:
Last school holidays I went to Noumea with the NZ Optimist Development Team. This team of 10 was selected from last year's Optimist Nationals. The people who were selected were Alex, Naomi, Taylor, James, Phillip, Alexi, Felicity, Luke, Tomer and me. Prior to heading over we had three days coaching with Jo Aleh who is a world champion in Laser Radial.
On Tuesday 3rd the team flew to Noumea. When we got to Noumea we dumped our gear at the hotel and left to the boat club. At the boat club we got issued our boats that we would be sailing in for the next week. We all spent about an hour setting them up the way we wanted them and then some of us went for a sail to get used to the wind and water conditions.
The next two days we had coaching with Adrian Mannering to help us with the different conditions to New Zealand. For lunch each day we had baguettes filled with chicken, ham, tomatoes, lettuce and lots of other good food.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday were the race days. Over the three days we sailed 12 races. My best results were two seconds. In one I was winning the whole race and just got beaten on the finish line.
On Monday we had a chill out day around Noumea and we even went out to an island right next to a coral reef. That night the team dressed up in their team uniforms to go to the formal regatta prize giving. Four of the sailors won prizes for different awards. Straight after the prizes were given out the team performed a traditional waiata and haka.
After prize giving we all headed to a restaurant and had an informal team prize giving were everyone got a prize. We got back to the hotel at
1:00am and then a group of us had a sleepover and stayed up to 3:00am. At 6:30am the next day we all had breakfast and then hopped on a bus to go the airport. Our plane then left at 10:00am to take us home.
Regatta website and results
murrays bay HALL AND PARSONS 2006 winchamps
(September 2006) Thirteen Worser Bay boats competed in this regatta with some great results including a podium finish in the Lasers to Josh Junior, who was placed 2nd (on countback),
and top ten finishes in Optimist, Adam Middleton; P Class, Stacey Swanson and Josh Porebski;
Starling, Rowan Swanson; Laser, Matthew Steven; and Laser Radial, Bruce Jones.
Full results at www.murraysbay.org
Murrays Bay report that numbers were well up on last year for P class and starlings. Our club was well represented in both these classes.
This was not quite the case in the Optimist class where Adam Middleton was the sole entrant from WBBC and would dearly love to be joined by others at future
regattas - either in the Open fleet or the rather more low key Green fleet which is usually sailed on a less demanding course.
Opening Day 2006-07
 (September 2006) What a cracker of a day! Five to ten knots of northerly instead of 15 knots of predicted sourtherly. Around forty senior boats and ten
junior boats on the water with Steve McDowell winning the Senior Race for the Mumford Holiday Trophy, and Stacey Swanson the Junior race.
Dave Greenberg, Crew Chief of the Westpac Rescue Helicopter in Wellington was a very welcome special guest to officially open the club for the season.
Before doing so David spoke of his rescue near the Chatham Islands of the badly injured John Masters from the Global Challenge Yacht Imagine it Done.
This resulted in Dave being offered John's place on the Wellington to Sydney leg.
Since then, John has participated in sailing from time to time which
has given him a better appreciation of what is involved with other rescues at sea. Dave outlined the large number of missions flown by the
helicopter and apologised that he had forgotten to bring the bucket along to pass around.
No doubt we can remedy this when an opportunity comes
along for us all to give to the Helicopter Trust in support of the work they are doing.
Results
Josh Junior Wins at Cork
Josh has just competed in Canada as the recipient of the St John Rotary scholarship which is awarded annually by Yachting New Zealand to an
up and coming youth sailor. The scholarship allows a New Zealand sailor to compete in the CORK Youth Fest regatta and the CORK Sail
Kingston regatta.
Last week Josh won the Youth Festival regatta with five wins from six races, and has just placed 3rd in the CORK Sail
Kingston regatta. Awesome Josh!!
Regatta website
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