News 2008 - 2009 Season

lasers at taupo and in sydney

(December 2008) One of our roving reporters has sent in this report on WBBC results form the Laser North Island Championships held in Taupo last weekend.

Laser Radial
Edmund Tam 3rd overall and 1st Apprentice masters
Bruce Jones 9th overall and 1st Master laser

Full Rig
Andrew Dellabarca 2nd overall and 1st Apprentice master
Chris Jones 10th and 3rd open fleet
Mike Hood 12th overall
Rob Woodward 18th Overall (Stanley/Woodward cup 3 wins)
Dean Stanley 19th overall (Stanley/Woodward cup 3 wins)
Results

Meanwhile four of our Laser sailors are in Sydney competing in the Sydney International Regatta and achieving some great results. They are Josh Junior, Josh Porebski, Jackson Macfarlane, Tim Coltman.

Results
Reports
Good luck to all for the remainder of the regatta!

NAPIER REGATTA WINNERS

(December 2008) In the Optimist class Jamie Middleton was a convincing winner with five bullets from seven races. In the OK Dinghy class Luke O'Connell managed to hold out fellow Worser Bay sailor Steve McDowell. (who sailed consistently throughout never finishing below third in all six races) by one point. Eight Worser Bay skippers competed in the Optimist class that attracted 27 entries and in the OK Dinghy class Worser Bay representation was again eight skippers out of 23 entries overall.
Results

yachting new zealand awards

(December 2008) A number of our members received awards at the Yachting new Zealand Annual Awards Dinner held in Auckland for their sailing efforts.
Karl Purdie (finalist for Sailor of the Year) and the University Match Racing Team of Josh Junior, Matthew Steven, Chris Jones and Carl Syman (finalists for Young Sailor of the Year) all received merit certificates.  Maurice Scott received an Honours Award in recognition of his contribution to sailing. To further add to the occasion Bruce Jones and Andrew Paterson, also at the Worser Bay table, managed to snare two of the rather nice spot prizes of sponsor's product.

STARLING MATCH RACING

(December 2008) Congratulations to Oliver Staub who was the winner of the Starling Match Racing Trials on Saturday and will go on to represent Wellington Yachting at the National event in Whangarei next January.

wellington match on podium at keelboat nationals

(December 2008) Congratulations to the team of Josh Junior, Matt Steven, Chris Jones, Jonathan Clough and Rowan Swanson (all Worser Bay members who have honed their skills in Lasers and OK Dinghies) who came third in the Keelboat Champs held in Auckland last week. After four days and thirteen races on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, the team finished, behind Emirates Team New Zealand's Dean Barker and Olympic team sailor Peter Burling, and ahead of seventeen other teams consisting of the who's who of New Zealand yachting. A fantastic effort guys.

optimist sailor off to japan

(July 2008) Congratulations to Jamie Middleton who was selected as part of a New Zealand team of 3 Optimist skippers and 2 P Class skippers, to compete in the All Japan Youth Regatta.
The regatta was from the 2 - 3 August 2008.
Jamie finished 12th overall in the Optimist fleet of 50, and was 3rd International Optimist. Jamie would like to thank the Eastern Suburbs Sports Trust and the Carillon Club for helping to fund her trip.

NEW BOAT SHED PROJECT

(June 2008) The Special General Meeting prior to prizegiving unanimously voted to proceed with this great project!
We have all the necessary resource consents and are now looking at ways to raise the much needed funds. Further updates will be communicated in the near future.

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