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Young 88 Nationals - Competitors get the chance for a serious wind up


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The Young 88 Owners Association continues to innovate to keep the sailing fun and numbers healthy.  This year the association has joined with fleet and event sponsor Harken to provide the “Win Wicked Winches” spot prize; a pair of Harken Performa winches valued at more than $2500.

 

The “nats” has once again attracted a very competitive fleet of young and old “weekend warriors” and global sailing rock stars to duke it out for trophies engraved with a who’s who of NZ Sailing.

 

Mike Sanderson, ISAF World Sailor of the Year and Volvo Ocean race winning skipper has “dusted off” Flash Gordon and teamed up with an accomplished Kiwi contingent. The crew are mainly off the Mini Maxi Bella Mente and aim to emulate their 2013 victory enjoying a different style of competitive racing.

 

Flash will be taking on the seasoned Y88 campaigners led by last year’s winner Zane Gifford on Raging Hormones and North Sails Sprints winner Nathan (Sooty) Williams on Slipstream III.

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Dave Hazard – Skitzo was last year’s runner up and will be leading the under 25’s with a crew mainly out of the RNZYS Youth Training Program.

 

Keeping them honest is a hard core bunch of Young 88 stalwarts chasing the big prize but also vying for the Owner Driver trophy and 1st Corinthian (non pro) crew.

 

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The 2016 regatta will once again be run by an internationally qualified race management team from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron plus on water umpires. Their goal is to keep this very competitive fleet on the right side of the race rules. 

 

Weather for the weekend is still a complete mystery with none of the forecast models agreeing. The range is 3-25kts from all points of the compass. A true test of crews, and race committee!

 

Racing will be held on the former Americas Cup waters north of Auckland’s extinct volcano Rangitoto Island and will start at 1000am on Saturday and Sunday 9-10 April.

 

Prize giving is to be held at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron on Sunday evening.  The awards will be handed out by the 88’s design genius Jim Young and NZ mass production pioneer, Young 88 boat builder/marketer Roger Land.

 

Follow the racing online:

RNZYS event page

Young 88 Facebook page

Young 88 web site

Photo and Video provider LiveSailDie

 

2015 Winner: Zane Gifford – Raging Hormones

 

 

2013 Winner Mike Sanderson – Flash Gordon

 

 

 

Entrants in the 2016 Harken Young 88 Nationals include:

 

War Machine

Chris Macindoe

RNZYS

Men @ Work

Frans de Court

RNZYS

Slipstream III

Nathan Williams

RNZYS

Skitzo

David Hazard

RNZYS

Medium Dry

Philip Rzepecky

RNZYS

Simple Minds

Bruce Scott

RNZYS

Legless

Grant Crawford

WBC

Sailor Moon

Jacko van Deventer

KIYC

Heartlight

Roger Sims

SSANZ

Flash Gordon

Mike Sanderson

RNZYS

Waka Huia

Bill Dalbeth

RNZYS

Voodoo

Leigh Miller

RAYC

Undercover

Edward Massey

RNZYS

Raging Hormones

Zane Gifford

RNZYS

 

ENDS-

 

About the Young 88

 

The success of the Young 88 is down to Jim Young’s fantastic design offering a fast and safe cruiser racer that was well ahead of its time.  This coupled with Roger Land’s innovative boat building and marketing has seen more than one hundred and fifty boats built since the 1980s and many exported. 

 

A strong owners’ association perpetuates this success, managing an annual program of racing and social events and a tightly controlled set of one design rules.  This keeps the boats on the same playing field, affordable and safe.

 

For more information, please contact:

Young 88 Owners Association

Class President:  Grant Crawford Ph: + 64 (21) 270 4040

Class Publicity Officer:  Mike Leyland ph +64 (21) 554 239

Young 88 Owners Association of New Zealand (Inc)
Auckland

www.young88.org.nz

 

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Blimey that was one tough regatta for skippers, crews, officials and volunteers.... the lightest most variable weekend racing for a long time.

 

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Results are in and a few changes at the last minute following protest hearings.

Congratulations 
1st on line Bill Dalbeth on Waka Huia, 
2nd Mike Sanderson on Flash Gordon and 
3rd Nathan Williams on Slipstream. 
1st Owner Driver Bill Dalbeth, 
1st Corinthian Crew Nigel Garland - Heartlight, 
1st handicap Ed Massey - Undercover.

The winner of the big spot prize of a pair of Harken winches Leigh Miller - Voodoo.

Thanks to Garry from Harken and Jim and Anne Young (as in designer) for coming along and presenting the prizes.

Full results can be linked to from the regatta page here http://www.rnzys.org.nz/rnzys-events/harken-young-88-national-championships/

And heaps of weird and wonderful photos on the 88 FB page here  https://www.facebook.com/YoungEightyEight

 

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