An ominous start to the event with the wind swinging through 150deg and inconsistent breeze. Eventually got underway dealing with the shifting breeze as best as we could which led to some interesting results. Breeze varied all day with everything from the very bottom of A rig up to near the top of B rig in the … Read more
Attached is the Race Officer report for the 2024 DF65 South Island Championships.
The New Plymouth Radio Control Yacht Club hosted the Taranaki Classic IOM Regatta at Lake Rotomanu in Fitzroy, New Plymouth, on the weekend of the 31st of August/1st of September. This regatta was the 2nd regatta of a 3 regatta series for Classic IOM’s with the 1st hosted by NMMS at Wattle farm in June with the 3rd to be hosted by Kāpiti Radio Yacht Club on the 21st & 22nd September. … Read more
Race Officer Report The weekend started on a sour note with the discovery that someone had tried to break in to our container resulting in two damaged padlocks and a ragged lock box. They didn’t get into the container but then neither could we – no mark boat and no marks! Steve Champion made a quick trip … Read more
The results of the 2024 DF95 Wellington Championships held on 28 July 2024
The results of the 2024 DF65 Wellington Championships held on 27 July 2024
WattleFarmSailing (NMMS) hosted the recent Classic IOM Regatta. This is for Pre 2010 non-tumblehome designs… (so pre-Britpop and V8). 19 classic IOM’s turned up…most in immaculate condition The oldest were the Drumbeats and an SP2 from Tauranga. A freshly-launched Drumbeat2 design from that era was present (unfortunately it was a bit fresh out of the … Read more
Sunday 7th July : DF95 AUCKLAND CHAMPIONSHIP Following on from the DF65 yesterday, the DF95’s showed a strong 21 boat fleet. Again 2 skippers were stood down on a rotating basis to act as observers. Conditions were similar to Saturday, with cold sou-westerlies straight down the lake, accompanied by occasional flurries of icy rain – … Read more
Wattle Farm was cold and intermittently wet, with a building 10-20 knot SW straight down the lake. With 18 boats entered, 2 were stood down each race as observers (scoring average points) The racing started on A+ rig, dropping to A rig (and a solitary B for one race), and then back up to A+ … Read more
DF65 NORTH ISLAND CHAMPIONSHIP – FINAL RESULTS and RO REPORT Sunday, May 26, 2024 The 2024 DF65 North Island Championship was held at Wattle Farm across a blustery weekend. The wind was straight down the lake…12-18 knot SSW on the Saturday, and 15-25 knots SSW on the Sunday. A+ rigs were the go on Saturday … Read more
