6th – 7th December | Nelson Radio Sailing Club Sea Breezes almost guaranteed, the Beginning of Summer, the end of the 2025 Calendar Season, Amazing Hospitality and Venue – and of course the venue for the 2026 IOM Nationals… What more reason did you need to be in Nelson for the TOTS Regatta? 33 Sailors … Read more
With 25 entries, the Geoff Smale Memorial Regatta at The Quarry was shaping up to be an event to be contested. Weather forecast was predicting rain with an ENE wind blowing up to 25 knots. Racing started at 1000hrs in overcast conditions with the two fleets sailing in middle of A rig wind range. The … Read more
1st – 2nd November | Wellington Radio Yacht Club Recently, the Wellington Radio Yacht Club (WRYC) has found a new home – the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club. Based at the bottom of Evans Bay in Wellington this new venue was the location for the Murray Rountree Memorial IOM Regatta. The venue was amazing, … Read more
RO Report For those not familiar with the EC12, a little background: The class began as a tank testing model for a proposed Charles Morgan design prior to the 1964 America Cup defence. While the design didn’t secure a place in AC history, the tank testing plug was used to create the first moulds for … Read more
In May 2024, I wrote up the IOM ICA Application for New Zealand to host the first ever IOM Oceania Continental Championship. For much of it I sat in my car on Lakeside Drive to visualise the event. I imagined international flags hoisted high, gazebos up, vehicles parked, skippers setting their boats up from the … Read more
If you wish to follow the Oceania Championships. The event website – https://iomoceania.com/ The racing results – https://anzamsystems.com/NZL/oceania25/Current.html On Facebooks – https://www.facebook.com/IOM.Oceania On YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@insightmedia_nz
6th and 7th September | Kapiti Radio Yacht Club An event by the numbers: The event can surely be summed up in the words of the regatta and series winner, Chris W: “when the wind is in here, this is one of the best places to sail” And the wind was on point for almost … Read more
15th – 17th August | Kapiti Radio Yacht Club Leading up to the IOM Oceania Event to be held at Lake Pegasus in a little over a months’ time, the 2025 IOM Nationals was seen by many to be the perfect warm-up event… big fleets, catching up with friends, and of course the perfect opportunity … Read more
16 DF65 and 14 DF95 sailors assembled at Awatea Lake in Parapraumu for the Wellington DF Champs. While the weather could not have been better – the breeze posed challenges for both sailors and the RO. What little breeze there was made for some great racing, with the shifty light conditions providing many passing opportunities … Read more
Held at Wattle Farm Saturday 19th July & Sunday 20th July 2025 Race Officer Report The rain went through on Thursday and Friday and so did the wind. Saturday morning was fine but very light shifty zephyrs from all directions. We had decided to split the 38 entries into 3 fleets in case we had to race a short course across … Read more
