The Gulf Harbour Radio Yacht club welcomed 29 competitors from through-out the North Island to compete in the 2025 North Harbour IOM Champs. The venue in Regency Park Drive Lake offers good parking for cars and easy access to launch and retrieve the yachts. The HMS scoring system was used which required B and A heats finishing up with 13 races held … Read more
Congratulations to Rob Nelson in winning the North Harbour IOM Championships held at Regency Lake, Gulf Harbour on 15-16 February 2025. IOM North Harbour Champs 15th February 2025 Scoring: MYA HMS Sail Sailor Club Design Rank Tot R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 R 6 R 7 R 8 R 9 … Read more
After documenting the “Classic Class Revival”, I am now looking at documenting the IOM History in New Zealand, probably in 4 parts 1990’s, 2000’s, 2010’s & maybe the 2020’s. If you any reports and photos from the early periods would be a great help. I have copies of the newsletters: NZRYA Nov 1991 to Feb … Read more
The documents for this regatta are now uploaded and entries are open. The event is scheduled for 22-23 February at the Vauxhall Yacht Club, Portobello Road, Dunedin.
Entries are now open for the 2025 Kai Iwi Lakes Regatta to be held on 22-23 March 2025 at Kai Iwi, Dargaville.
The latest IOM rankings have just been published: https://nzrya.org.nz/classes/iom/iom-ranking/latest-iom-ranking/.
Entries are now open for the South Island IOM Championships to be held at Best Island, Richmond, Nelson on 1-2 March 2025. This event is organised by the Nelson Radio Sailing Club.
Perfect conditions for the 2024 Geoff Smale Memorial Regatta North Shore Radio Yacht Squadron held the 10th regatta in memory of club stalwart and top New Zealand sailor Geoff Smale on Wednesday 11th December at Quarry Lake, Northcote Rd. The 5 – 10k NE breeze blowing off Lake Pupuke onto the quarry provided excellent conditions for 25 … Read more
Attached is the selection process to be used for the Oceania 2025 event to be held on 25 Sept through to 5 Oct 2025 at Lake Pegasus. This has also been attached to the event.
John Beavis has prepared a report on Classic IOM revival (https://nzrya.org.nz/classes/iom/classic-iom-class/). John highlights a problem with the way historic material has been handled and is still wanting more information to update his article.
