What a sensational Port Nicholson Regatta! With over 170 Sailors and 30 boats on the water, including over half a dozen visiting boats with 4 Sports Boats from Auckland, RPNYC delivered an event members can be proud of! The Port Nicholson Regatta opened with the Lawson’s Dry Hills Charity Cup Race on Thursday, followed by a convivial Regatta Dinner and presentations to Britannia Sea Scouts, Wellington Free Ambulance, and Live Ocean. It provided opportunity to acknowledge the fantastic support from our sponsors who help make things better and easier: Yamaha, Crombie Lockwood, Lawson’s Dry Hills, Mt Gay, Steinlager, North Sails,…
Author: Gavin Pascoe
Mel has started loading photos to the galleries on her website, more will follow with an aim to get all the photos up by tomorrow night. At first count, Mel has about 2000 photos to go through, it takes some time. As you can see from this photo, there are more than just race action photos, so make sure you take a look. We hear lots of comments as to how much you all like the photos, but please remember that Mel is a volunteer, she gets nothing back from the club for doing this for us, and she’s still…
Some boats through no fault of their own seem to attract an aura about themselves. Every time a sail is hoisted, there is something in the air that says: “something interesting/funny/scary/tragic is about to happen”. Such a boat was the Ethel. I’ve no idea how she got into the pickle snapped from the dockside pictured here, but it appears to have happened in 1914. As an aside, the collier Hercules was torpedoed and sunk in 1917. Ethel was built by Charles Bailey Sr. in Auckland and launched 1884. She probably initially had a plumb stem. The clipper bow she shows…
The Rear Commodore writes… As I write this it is 3:50am on Saturday morning and there’s a howling northerly blowing. All the 2020 Round North Island boats that are finishing this evening are having a truly Windy Wellington welcome. Since midnight went down we have had five boats finish – however we all agree it has felt like 20! Nearly every boat has had the snot smacked out of them along the south coast and as they tacked up through the harbour entrance. We have also had ropes wrapped round a rudder, sails shredded, engines dying and emergency navigation lights…
CentrePort is delighted to once again support the CentrePort Youth Match Racing Championships. The Port’s connection with the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club is a long-standing one. CentrePort and its various predecessors, as with the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club has been an integral part of the Wellington harbour and its community since the 1800’s. We’re proud to be the port of choice for Wellington and the central New Zealand region, helping facilitate movement of cargo / goods to the value of $20bn per annum through its exporter and importer customers, the interisland ferry services and our fuel facilities. While…
The 2020 Centreport youth international match racing championships hosted by the Royal Port Nicholson yacht club saw new teams appear and a new format for the event. This years regatta saw teams travel over from Australia, down from Auckland, and up from the South Island to compete in the 2020 CentrePort Youth International Match Racing Championships. The two Sydney teams consisted of Jed Cruickshank (#200) from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron and Cam Whiteside (#531) from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. Aucklander Robbie McCutcheon (#234) representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron traveled down to compete in this year’s…
On Saturday Jim Gordon and Anna Sisley on shore spotted a swamped Dragon boat with the crew in the water. There was no bat signal available for Jim to activate but the next best was alerted. Kate Beckett, Shayne Priddle and Paul Rutherford sprang into action, Kate at the helm. They were first on the scene with Caniwi, bringing out around 20 of the crew, some hypothermic. Julie Bate took them back to the Clubhouse for showers and hot drinks and tablecloths (for blankets) supplied by Black and Gold staff. The police launch took the swamped boat in tow. Well…
Launched 01 August 1874, Xarifa was the first “proper” yacht to be built in Wellington – her purpose for nothing more than the recreation of sport and cruising.
Caniwi Capital was established in 2008 by Troy Bowker, and is been a proud supporter of our club support boat, Te Ruru.
After 25 years of use, the non-skid surface in the Muir cockpits had become non-existent. The solution came with the generous support of MG Composites and Seadek.