2016 Woodridge Homes New Zealand National Laser Champs, Muritai YC

Woodridge Homes was generously supporting the 2016 NZ National Laser Champs. Hosted by Muritai Yacht Club - Eastbourne, Wellington.

Results

Wellington again turned it on for the final day of the 2016 Woodridge Homes NZ Laser Nationals at Muritai Yacht Club in Wellington.

A light breeze greeted the 92 sailors as they arrived at the club and some of us were led to believe that the local Masters “we don’t do Light” was a Wellington myth. However true to Wellington form by start time it had built to 20 knots, again from the NW, and we ended up with the freshest day of the contest with gusts at times touching 30 knots and plenty of shifts and variation in pressure for those smart enough to take advantage. The outgoing tide ensured that conditions were not too rough and all fleets completed 2 races to complete their full complement of races for the contest.

In the Open Standard fleet Andrew McKenzie again took command from the start of each race to record two wins and an emphatic overall victory, winning 8 of the 10 races. Visiting Chinese sailors Ning Zhao and Jinfu Zhou were 2nd and 3rd in both todays races and overall with Matthew Kempkers from Auckland 4th.

The Radial Open contest was only decided in the final race and provided the highlight for the host club with club youth star George Gautrey, fresh from his second in the ISAF worlds youths, scoring a 1/2 today to secure victory over reigning World Apprentice Master champion Scott Leith, who also scored a 1/2 today but ended up 3 points behind George. Third was Chinese visitor Jianan Wu who was extremely  consistent and only 2 points behind Scott. The leading woman was Susannah Pyatt in 6th  and Worser Bay youth sailor Olivia Christie had an exceptionally strong regatta to finish 9th overall and first youth girl, out sailing many more experienced competitors despite the testing conditions.

After a really close contest visiting French sailor Juliette Bone claimed victory in the 4.7 division over Worser Bay sailor Amy Anderson.

Local talent was again to the fore in the Masters Divisions, with many of the sailors using the regatta to start to prepare for the Laser sailing at the 2017 World Masters Games in Auckland.

The Standard Masters division saw local Andrew Dellabarca securing an extremely well deserved victory with a 2/3 scoreline today to defeat the reigning champion, Apprentice Kris Decke from Whangarei by 5 points. Grand Masters Peter Kempkers, who had a great day winning both Masters races, and Murray Thom were 3rd and 4th respectively.

In the Radial Masters Ed Tam from Worser Bay won comfortably overall. He had a 3/1 record today to win clearly from Master Hamish Atkinson from Christchurch. First Grand Master was Roger Winton from Whangarei and after an intense battle of the Grand Masters Eastbourne’s Garth Cheyne took out the division from Bob Blakey and Gus Fry in 6th, 7th and 8th overall.

So we have concluded a wonderfully successful contest with testing conditions and every division well contested. Next year’s contest will be in Taupo which is sure to provide a whole new set of challenges for sailors. The top 5 in each division were;

— Nick Page

Laser Standard Open

Series Place	Sail No	Helm	Series Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	Race 10
1	207496	Andrew McKenzie	10	2	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	200817	NingZ Zhao	21	4	2	2	2	7	2	2	3	2	2
3	203460	Jinfu Zhou	26	1	3	4	4	3	4	3	2	3	3
4	208519	Matthew Kempkers	28	3	4	3	1	2	3	4	4	4	4
5	203776	James Jennings	46	7	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	7
6	200531	Yuchen Gu	51	5	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	5

Laser Radial Open & Youth

Series Place	Sail No	Class	Helm	Series Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	Race 10
1	206419	Youth	George Gautrey	15	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	3	2	1
2	208521	Open	Scott Leith	18	4	1	1	3	36	3	2	1	1	2
3	192881	Open	Jianan Wu	20	1	3	5	1	2	1	3	2	4	3
4	209259	Youth	Josh Armit	42	5	4	4	6	5	4	5	5	7	4
5	207850	Youth	Alastair Gifford	43	6	6	17	5	4	6	4	4	3	5
6	192281	Women	Susannah Pyatt	46	3	5	8	4	3	5	6	6	10	6
7	206030	Women	Ali Nightingale	58	10	7	3	7	6	7	9	7	5	7
8	206027	Open	Dylan Mckinlay	75	9	8	9	8	10	9	7	9	8	8
9	209279	Youth	Olivia Christie	80	8	9	11	17	11	10	8	8	6	9
10	197247	Youth	Blake Nicholson	91	14	12	10	9	7	8	14	11	9	11
11	209278	Youth	Jason Hewitt	112	18	13	6	10	8	20	10	14	20	13
12	190332	Youth	Kiriffi Leilua	115	23	10	13	28	9	12	12	10	14	12
13	204111	Open	Loic Eisenring	121	12	15	12	11	18	21	13	12	13	15
14	207851	Youth	Megan Thomson	122	21	11	7	16	13	11	19	17	18	10
15	191621	Youth	Travers Cole	123	7	27	14	14	17	13	11	13	17	17
16	202688	Youth	Samuel Rushton	141	16	18	19	27	12	19	17	15	11	14
17	193052	Youth	Sam Beckman	160	13	14	18	18	14	24	23	20	16	25
18	192267	Open	Bryn Bennett	168	30	16	15	15	21	17	22	24	22	16
19	195712	Women	Teau Moana McKenzie	172	22	20	27	21	16	22	16	23	12	20
20	198108	Women	Libby Porter	174	29	17	23	12	19	18	18	19	26	22
21	208518	Women	Julia Francis	176	24	21	26	25	15	15	20	18	19	19
22	210160	Youth	Richard Wright	188	25	19	25	13	25	23	24	16	27	18
23	202682	Youth	Lochlan Grimwade	194	11	23	20	30	36	14	27	21	21	27
24	187887	Women	Bianca Leilua	201	31	25	29	20	20	16	25	28	15	23
25	198110	Open	Callum Radford	202	19	24	22	23	22	32	21	27	23	21
26	201517	Youth	Philipp Governale	225	15	22	30	24	23	31	33	30	24	26
27	199215	Youth	John Barnett	232	28	26	24	19	26	29	30	25	25	33
28	202491	Youth	Logan McAllister	233	36	28	16	22	36	36	15	26	30	24
29	192286	Youth	Annabell Rennie-Younger	245	17	30	28	29	28	30	31	22	31	30
30	150060	Open	James Sorensen	247	20	29	21	32	29	25	29	31	36	31
31	205734	Women	Mareike Bordasch	252	27	32	31	31	24	26	28	29	28	28
32	195540	Youth	Elly Warren	273	32	31	32	26	31	27	32	33	36	29
33	181715	Youth	Iolo Adams	277	33	34	36	36	27	28	26	32	29	32
34	179386	Youth	Alice Overend	289	26	33	33	33	30	36	34	34	32	34
35	196410	Youth	Henry Goodall	324	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36

Laser 4.7

Series Place	Sail No	Class	Helm	Series Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	Race 10
1	186634	Under 18	Juliette Bone	12	2	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	2
2	148903	Under 18	Amy Anderson	14	1	2	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	1

Laser Standard Masters

Series Place	Sail No	Class	Helm	Series Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8
1	210462	Master	Andrew Dellabarca	14	3	1	7	1	3	1	2	3
2	199238	Apprentice	Kris Decke	19	1	3	3	2	4	4	27	2
3	199225	Grand Master	Peter Kempkers	20	7	5	1	4	1	14	1	1
4	177771	Grand Master	Murray Thom	23	4	2	4	5	2	3	3	7
5	208529	Master	Rob Woodward	40	5	15	5	8	7	6	4	5
6	196864	Master	Owen Anderson	41	6	7	2	12	6	2	6	27
7	174323	Master	Chris Brodie	49	2	4	11	3	11	15	8	10
8	171098	Apprentice	Chris Shannon	55	11	14	9	10	5	5	9	6
9	192705	Apprentice	Ken Atchison	61	14	22	12	7	10	9	5	4
10	198107	Grand Master	Nick Page	66	13	8	10	6	8	11	10	13
11	198114	Master	Tony Nicholson	68	10	11	8	11	12	7	27	9
12	210161	Grand Master	Chris Sadler	71	9	9	16	9	9	8	15	12
13	196418	Grand Master	Peter van Ryn	74	17	6	13	13	18	10	7	8
14	186528	Master	Luuk Batenburg	82	8	10	6	22	20	13	14	11
15	196872	Apprentice	Rodney Studd	92	12	12	14	14	17	12	12	16
16	197255	Master	John Hayman	99	19	13	15	15	14	17	11	14
17	198105	Grand Master	Paul Thomas	115	16	16	17	17	13	19	27	17
18	176924	Apprentice	James Macrae	119	27	18	18	16	15	18	16	18
19	202872	Apprentice	Karl Nicholson	123	20	21	20	18	16	21	13	15
20	192308	Great Grand Master	Ian Wallace	129	18	17	22	20	21	16	17	20
21	161275	Apprentice	Simon Beck	131	15	19	21	19	22	20	18	19
22	199218	Grand Master	Gregory Simon	150	22	20	19	21	19	22	27	27
23	162124	Grand Master	Chris Trudgen	154	21	23	23	23	23	23	19	22
24	39666	Grand Master	Peter Kaufman	167	27	24	25	24	26	27	20	21
25	190321	Grand Master	Jay Mcjorrow	178	23	26	24	26	25	27	27	27
26	152613	Grand Master	Pete Collier	178	24	25	26	25	24	27	27	27

Laser Radial Masters

Series Place	Sail No	Class	Helm	Series Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8
1	202441	Master	Edmund Tam	10	1	1	3	1	1	2	3	1
2	201518	Master	Hamish Atkinson	21	2	2	7	4	3	3	5	2
3	170335	Master	Greg Wilshire	25	4	24	1	3	2	1	7	7
4	202689	Grand Master	Roger Winton	26	3	3	9	6	5	4	1	4
5	202918	Master	Mike Knowsley	31	5	5	6	2	6	6	4	3
6	180209	Great Grand Master	Garth Cheyne	39	8	10	2	14	7	5	2	5
7	196411	Great Grand Master	Bob Blakey	41	10	4	8	5	4	8	6	6
8	208359	Great Grand Master	Gus Fry	51	7	6	4	7	19	9	9	9
9	162114	Grand Master	Jeff Booth	59	11	8	5	9	14	10	8	8
10	206418	Grand Master	Bruce Jones	64	6	7	11	10	8	11	11	13
11	202681	Grand Master	Allan Bindon	76	13	11	12	8	9	12	14	11
12	181711	Master	Chris McCarthy	84	9	9	10	19	17	19	10	10
13	188809	Master	Fergus Thomson	91	12	13	13	20	10	7	18	18
14	161265	Master	Michael Gray	94	15	12	14	12	12	16	15	14
15	195548	Master	Don Christie	98	16	14	15	11	18	13	12	17
16	170539	Grand Master	Tom Kerr	102	19	15	17	13	11	14	16	16
17	196429	Grand Master	Richard Dreverman	113	18	16	18	17	13	17	17	15
18	186660	Apprentice	Dragos Blaga	119	24	24	24	16	15	15	13	12
19	192707	Grand Master	Keith Miller	124	17	24	16	18	16	18	19	20
20	187886	Grand Master	Rob Burn	133	21	17	19	15	21	20	20	21
21	162120	Grand Master	Michael Gibbs	143	20	20	20	22	22	21	21	19
22	157154	Master	Grant Cooze	145	14	18	24	21	20	24	24	24
23	163938	Great Grand Master	Stephen Phillips	161	22	19	24	24	24	24	24	24