Lake Pupuke turned on a very tricky but enjoyable weekend for the 2025 NSFWC, with a fleet of over 30 ILCA 6's and 7's completing 7 races over the two days. We welcomed a good number of out of town visitors and enjoyed close racing in both fleets all weekend.

 

The forecast was for light N winds on Saturday freshening significantly on Sunday, however the fresh winds on Sunday never eventuated and racing on both days was held in sub 10 knot N winds with many light patches and shifts to negotiate, taxing the race committee as well as the sailors. 

 

A strong ILCA 6 youth contingent competed, a number of whom are training for the ILCA youth world later in the year. In spite of the tricky conditions results followed the pattern of recent regattas with a super consistent Tom Pilkington convincingly taking the title, winning 4 races along the way. Sam Clarke was a clear 2nd, winning 2 of the other races with Arran Begic completing the podium. Miro Luxford, who travelled up from Christchurch for the weekend,  was 4th followed by the first Master, Dave Johnson from Tauranga. Chloe Turner was the first of the women ahead of master Georgina Wooldridge and Boe Reiff from Bay of Islands.

 

In the ILCA 7 it was another of the Pilkington clan, U21 George, who triumphed, counting 3 wins and 3 seconds, to take the title from Zach Stibbe and Max Faulkner. Convincingly leading the strong masters contingent was apprentice Andrew Child from Taipa. He and top GGM David Giles finished with a significant points advantage over a close group of masters, all of whom seemed to manage to achieve a mix of success and disasters in roughly equal measure over the 7 races to all end up close on points.

 

Prize giving was the usual entertaining affair, with commodore John Dowsett dolling out prizes with banter to suit, particularly targeting the (to remain anonymous) youth parents urging on selection of the wine and rum spot prizes by their charges from the sidelines!

 

So another successful event to wrap up a very successful seasons regattas for ILCA and best of luck to all those competing at ILCA worlds over the next few months.

ILCA 6 

pos	name	club	div . sail	Σ		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	dis
1	PILKINGTON Tom	MBSC	Y m  1092	9		ufd	1	1	3	1	1	2	20
2	CLARKE Sam	MBSC	Y m  2079	20		1	3	4	7	4	8	1	8
3	BEGIC Arran	MBSC	Y m  6526	27		5	9	5	2	3	3	ufd	18
4	LUXFORD Miro	CBYC	Y m  7311	31		4	6	10	5	7	6	3	10
5	JOHNSON Dave	TYPBC	M m  9278	34		ufd	7	7	4	10	2	4	20
6	LINKLATER Thomas	TYPBC	Y m  0056	36		14	4	2	11	2	9	8	14
7	DIMOCK Liam	MBSC	Y m  4437	41		ufd	2	3	12	13	5	6	20
8	TURNER Chloe	MBSC	Y w  3091	46		3	5	16	8	5	dns	9	18
9	DUNN Toby	MBSC	Y m  2175	47		6	8	dns	6	9	11	7	20
10	GAITES Isaac	MBSC	Y m  30	49		10	13	6	10	11	7	5	13
11	HOLLANDS Jack	MBSC	Y m  4251	58		8	dns	12	14	8	4	12	20
12	CRADDOCK Jack	WBC	Y m  8	64		9	14	15	9	12	10	10	15
13	ELSTOB Brett	TAIPA	A m  0505	65		12	17	8	13	6	15	11	17
14	UTTING Beau	MBSC	Y m  2181	71		2	11	17	1	dnc	dnc	dnc	20
15	WOOLDRIDGE Georgina	PBC	G w  8358	72		7	12	11	15	16	14	13	16
16	JOHNSON Lucas	TYPBC	Y m  2550	73		13	10	9	18	15	12	14	18
17	SHAW Luke	TBSC	Y m  6527	88		15	18	14	17	14	13	15	18
18	REIFF Boe	BOIYC	Y m  0161	94		16	16	13	19	17	16	16	19
19	FERGUSON Arthur	NGSC	G m  6723	100		11	15	18	16	dnc	dnc	dnc	20
dnc = 20 . . . raf dnf ocs ufd dsq dne nsc =						20	20	20	20	18	18	18
SCORING = Appendix A . . . z = ZFP . a = ARB . p = SPI . d = DPI . r = RDG . s = SRS

ILCA 7

pos	name	club	div . sail	Σ		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	dis
1	PILKINGTON George	RNZYS	Y m  1	9		2	1	1	2	1	4	2	4
2	STIBBE Zach	OTAGO	O m  9911	13		1	2	6	3	5	1	1	6
3	FAULKNER Max	TYPBC	O m  2253	22		10	7	5	1	3	2	4	10
4	CHILD Andrew	TAIPA	A m  7849	28		8	6	2	5	2	5	9	9
5	GILES David	PBC	S m  7844	32		3	3	3	9	9	8	6	9
6	LOWE David	PBC	S m  0073	43		5	9	9	11	4	13	5	13
7	GRIGG Giles	TYC	G m  1504	44		6	8	8	4	7	11	ufd	14
8	PAGE Nick	PBC	S m  1519	49		12	13	4	6	10	6	11	13
8=	HURSTHOUSE Mark	PBC	S m  2078	49		ufd	4	12	8	11	7	7	15
10	NICHOLSON Tony	PBC	G m  2266	50		7	11	dns	dns	6	3	8	15
10=	NICHOLSON Karl	PBC	M m  7840	50		9	12	7	10	13	9	3	13
12	KELIS Nik	WBC	A m  8101	56		11	10	10	7	8	10	ufd	14
13	WOOLDRIDGE Neil	PBC	G m  4094	65		4	14	13	dnf	12	12	10	15
14	GLADWELL Ian	PBC	G m  2247	73		dns	5	11	12	dnc	dnc	dnc	15
dnc = 15 . . . raf dnf ocs ufd dsq dne nsc =						15	15	15	15	14	14	14
SCORING = Appendix A . . . z = ZFP . a = ARB . p = SPI . d = DPI . r = RDG . s = SRS