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The tricky Northerly breeze was back. Everyone stuck with A rig despite some good strong gusts coming through . Glen Riley Strung some very consistent results together to be at the top of the board after 8 races

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Very good winds from the west for the North Island and Northland IOM Championships enabled 27 races to be held with good fare sailing

Ian Vickers  from North Shore again showed is superiority cleaning up the regatta  with 14 first places

Last years runner up Graham Cross also from North Shore again showed he is a force to be reckoned with again finishing in the same position with Brett May from Gulf Harbour in third place

Race officer Darrel Hopkins ran a splendid  regatta that was enjoyed by all

 

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Ian Vickers won the regatta  with his new V 10 He was consistently pushed throughout the racing by Rob Nelson .

Conditions were difficult  for race officer Paddy Simms to set a fair course on the first two days with rain washing out the racing on the Saturday morning .

On Sunday the weather settled down to 10 to 20 knot westerly and everyone settled into having some great racing

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Light conditions from the North East direction wast testing for all sailors

Roddy Booth was top sailor of the day after 8 races

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Very light conditions with Glen Riley topping the leader board

The last two boats got a 30 second head start in the next race and this worked well

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Sun was out again in the winterless North

Good A rig conditions with Roddy top with Dean Lutze starting to do some pushing

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Very light winds however good fleet of boats were racing

Roddy Booth again showed how to do it

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C rigs came out of their boxes

Des was top dog of the day

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