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Results of the Season 2005/06

Napier 8. May 2006

Results and reports of international regattas can be found on okdia.org, the website of the OK Dinghy International Association.

New Zealand Ranking 2005/6

The Ranking list 2005/6 for the NZ sailors

Pos	Name	Sailno	Club	Points
1	Greg Wilcox	522	Worser Bay	149
2	Mark Perrow	521	Wakatere	148
3	Alistair Deaves	472	Wakatere	142
4	Karl Purdie	502	Worser Bay	122
5	Steve McDowell	525	Worser Bay	111
6	Adrian Mannering	504	Napier	110
7	Darren Hunt	498	Napier	95
8	Grant Pedersen	518	Wakatere	95
9	Trent Pryce	490	Napier	87
10	Russell Wood	520	Wakatere	78
11	Ben Morrison	511	Wakatere	78
12	Phil Rzepecky	500	Wakatere	70
13	Mike Wilde	515	Wakatere	69
14	Peter Scheuerl	512	Hamburg	69
15	Paul Rhodes	517	Worser Bay	65
16	Joe Porebski	523	Worser Bay	55
17	David Hoogenboom	481	Wakatere	48
18	Rob Hengst	494	Napier	47
19	Matt McDowell	519	Wakatere	41
20	Matthew Bismark	491	Worser Bay	38
21	Owen Anderson	467	Worser Bay	32
22	Andrew Pardington	512	Wakatere	30
23	Graham Lambert	493	Wakatere	23
24	John Hoogerbrug	360	Napier	23
25	Dan Slater	516		20
26	Scott Pedersen	510	Napier	19
27	Marty Weeks	509	Napier	16
28	Nigel Stillwell	467	Napier	15
29	Chris Brownlie	490	Napier	14
30	Matt King	417	Napier	13
31	Wayne Avery	508	Wakatere	13
32	Julianne Hofman	515	Potsdam	12
33	Cambell Scott	485	Napier	11

New Year Regatta 2006

Napier Sailing Club

December 31.- January 2.

1. Greg Wilcox Worser Bay 9pts
2. Karl Purdie Worser Bay 10pts
3. Adrian Mannering Napier 16pts
4. Mark Perrow Wakatere 19pts
5. Alistair Deaves Wakatere 24pts
6. Peter Scheuerl Napier 34pts

Report by Alistair Deaves

This years’ regatta at the end of the World produced some of the most unbelievably diabolical weather that most of the competitors had ever raced in. During many of the races, up to five different winds would compete for the affections of the sailors, lulling those who were succumbed into chasing a sure fire winner into desperation and solitude in their own special corner.

At the beginning, everything seemed to be OK and the 21 OKs sailed out of the Napier channel into a beautiful 12 knot sea breeze. But just minutes before the first start, the wind started to back, favouring the pin end by almost a right angle, and giving Greg Wilcox and Karl Purdie a jump on the fleet that they were never to lose. It all turned to custard down the first reach with boats beating, running and reaching all within chatting distance of each other. Boats would get a little puff and catch 15 places, only to lose 15 while other boats caught a puff from a different direction. All credit to Wilcox though, while the rest of the fleet changed places from front to back and back again, he managed to stay in the breeze until the finish and win by a staggering 12 minutes.

Straight after the finish and just before the start of the second race the south-wester kicked in at 25 knots with bullets coming through at over 30. Those who still had the heart for it after the first race blasted round the shortened course. Local hero Adrian Mannering won with Purdie second again.

New Years Eve. Beer, wine rum headaches. Usual stuff.

The first OK race of 2006, race 3 of the New Year Regatta was started in 1 knot of breeze from the land. About an hour had passed before Alistair Deaves rounded the wing mark, some distance ahead of Wilcox and the chasing pack. At this stage the sea breeze put in an appearance making the fleet beat up to the leeward mark and then run down to the windward mark. The breeze then died away again causing the fleet to close up again with the lead passing to Wilcox and then Matt Bismark. Bismark held the lead until the final reach/ beat type leg when he was caught on the wrong side of a returning land breeze. Wilcox won from Deaves and Bismark and with the breeze again dying to nothing, these three had sailed ashore and eaten their lunch before the next boat appeared on the beach.

After protracted lunch discussions about the desirability of doing any more sailing that day, most of the fleet sailed out to race 4 in an unexpectedly stiffening sea breeze. But before any of the fleets could be started the wind had blown from 3 other directions and the postponement flag was put up. At this point the race committee changed the course to be sailed to Course C. Now probably the worst thing to do when this happens, at Napier, is to ask one of the locals what the course might possibly be. And so when the starting gun finally sounded, some of the fleet went upwind looking for the first mark, while others reached off in the opposite direction and the rest wavered in the middle somewhere. When the breeze finally settled in it was from the south-west again at about 20 knots. Purdie won from Wilcox and Deaves.

Reports of a 40 knot front coming through the next day led many to believe that racing would be called off on the Monday, but after a sensible clubhouse briefing in the morning it was decided to hold the morning race and wait for the expected midday front before deciding on any afternoon racing.

So race 5 was a very short affair in a 20-25 knot North-Wester, gusting to 30 at the last wing mark. Russell Wood started to show some form by leading for much of the race, only to be passed on the last screaming reach by Wilcox and Mannering.

We then sat on the beach for 3 hours waiting for the storm. The storm was delayed and the decision to sail one last race was made and the fleets made their nervous ways out to sea. Ominous signs could be seen in the west in the shape of towering clouds with back stuff underneath, slowly making their way towards us. The nor-wester had already started to ease and swing to the north, making another short race something of a follow the leader race. On the last triangle, with the wind almost gone completely, we knew IT was coming. Sudden short lived hot puffs of wind would come from the west, foretelling the doom that was approaching. For the OK fleet it arrived on the last reach, at first at 25 knots, then to 30 by the finish. As we sailed up the channel bullets were coming through at 40 and by the time we made the beach it was blowing a steady 50 knots, making getting up the ramp a wee bit interesting. In the hills is was blowing 70! Anyway, Adrian Mannering won this race.

Overall, Wilcox had won the event with a race to spare, and spent the last race happily taking photos of the carnage from the harbour wall, content in the knowledge that not only had he won the last regatta in the Summer series but also the series itself, by 1 point, from National Champion Mark Perrow.

The containers were packed the next day to take the NZ OK fleet to the 2006 World Championships at Lake Macquarie, NSW in February. With a bronze medal for Wilcox last year, hopes are again high for Kiwi success at this event.

New Zealand Nationals 2006

Wakatere Boating Club Auckland

December 8.-11.

Nationals 2006

Pos	Name	Club	Sailno	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Pts-1
1	Mark Perrow	Wakatere	521	1	1	4	1	1	2	2	9	8	DNF	29
2	Alistair Deaves	Wakatere	472	5	3	1	5	12	1	1	11	2	5	34
3	Paul Rhodes	Worser Bay	517	3	2	10	4	6	3	15	5	6	1	40
4	Greg Wilcox	Worser Bay	522	6	6	2	3	7	10	OCS	4	1	2	41
5	Karl Purdie	Worser Bay	502	8	4	6	2	4	4	7	2	5	7	41
6	Russell Wood	Wakatere	520	2	5	18	10	10	5	5	3	4	4	48
7	Steve MacDowell	WBBC	525	9	8	11	7	3	OCS	14	1	3	8	64
8	Ben Morrison	Wakatere	511	4	9	3	9	8	7	OCS	6	10	16	72
9	Joe Porebski	WBBC	523	11	7	15	6	2	11	10	7	17	9	78
10	Mike Wilde	Wakatere	515	17	10	9	19	5	19	3	12	13	12	100
11	Adrian Mannering	NSC	504	7	18	16	16	9	8	9	17	18	6	106
12	Andrew Pardington	Wakatere	512	20	16	5	13	13	14	6	DNS	DNS	3	113
13	Peter Scheuerl	NRV	516	12	11	13	14	20	13	11	15	9	15	113
14	David Hoogenboom	Pupuke	481	DNS	DNS	DNS	8	14	9	4	8	7	19	115
15	Darren Hunt	Napier	498	16	14	8	12	17	17	16	13	15	10	121
16	Philip Rzepecky	Wakatere	500	13	15	7	22	11	20	17	14	14	17	128
17	Mathew Bismark	Worser Bay	491	10	12	17	21	16	6	OCS	16	16	18	132
18	Trent Pryce	Napier	497	19	20	DNF	17	19	16	12	10	12	13	138
19	Grant Pedersen	Wakatere	518	18	17	14	18	15	15	13	18	19	11	139
20	Matt McDowell	WBBC	25	15	13	19	11	18	18	18	19	11	21	142
21	Rob Hengst	Napier	494	14	19	20	15	21	12	8	21	20	14	143
22	Graham Lambert	Kawai	493	21	21	12	20	22	21	DNS	20	21	20	178

The Worser Bay thugs arrived at Wakatere smug in the knowledge that they had cleaned out the first three places at last years nationals, and with the intention of repeating their success for another year. Little did they know of the conditions and the hardened Wakatere sailors that would greet them at the National Championship.

On account of the Worlds being in Australia in February, and that the nationals are generally the NZ qualification trials and that the boats would be shipped to Australia shortly after new year, the once in eight year event of the nationals being held before the start of the year occurred this year.

Twenty two sailors arrived on the beach at Wakatere to contest the 2006 National Championship. The conditions were generally offshore and very shifty, with bands of wind coming off the beach in strengths varying from 5 knots to 18 knots. It became quite clear after the first race, that to sail a consistent series might prove a bit tricky.

Mark Perrow won race 1 after sailing most of the race around 5th place. On the final beat he found himself on the right side of a 40 degree bend up the last beat and took the gun. Ben Morrison, also from Wakatere, had led for the whole race, and ended up 4th. Perrow won a more mundane race 2 after leading all the way. Then it was the turn of Wakatere team mate Alistair Deaves, who won race 3 after leading throughout. Perrow pulled himself back from the abyss in this race ending up 4th.

After day one it was Perrow, Deaves and Wilcox and with reports of 25 knots the next day, it was anyone’s game.

The wind never came. The four races on day 2 were sailed in mainly the same as day one, perhaps just a bit shiftier. Again it was a Wakatere domination day with Perrow winning the first two races and Deaves the second two. Consistent performances by Wilcox, Karl Purdie and Paul Rhodes, all from Worser Bay, kept them with an outside chance, although Perrow and Deaves would both have to have really bad results on the last day.

Perrow and Deaves had really bad results for the first race on day 3, with 9th and 11th respectively. The wind had increased overnight and moved more to the north to provide a steadier wind, although full of large holes. Last years champion, Steve McDowell, proved he still had some form and won race 8, with Worser Bay team mates Wilcox and Rhodes winning races 9 and 10.

Perrow finished 8th in race 9 which was enough to give him his first OK championship. With Deaves maintaining second overall, the Wakatere sailors were back on top again. Paul Rhodes had a good last day to lift him up to third overall and first veteran. Wilcox ended up fourth and Purdie fifth.

Turangi International Open 2005

Turangi

November 19/20

1. Alistair Deaves, Wakatere
2. Greg Wilcox, Worser Bay
3. Steve McDowell, Worser Bay
4. Karl Purdie, Worser Bay
5. Oscar Wilde, Wakatere
6. Mark Perrow, Wakatere

Sixteen sailors made the trip to Turangi this past weekend to compete in one of the longest running regattas of recent times. This was the fourth event of the OK Dinghy Summer Series, run by the Turangi Yacht Club.

Saturday saw the competitors on the beach for the first hour while the breeze built to 5-8 knots. The sun was out and in the 22+ deg temperatures, memories of the snow and what seemed like -20deg temperatures of last year quickly faded.

The regatta got off to a great start with five races been held in the first day. The racing was extremely close with almost every boat in the fleet having lead at some stage during the racing. Finishes were even closer with several positions being scored as ties, The race management team did a superb job separating the finishers which was no doubt a challenge when you have the entire fleet finishing within 15 seconds of each other!

The top performance of the day was Alistair Deaves who managed to sail consistently in the tricky conditions winning three of the races while the rest of fleet was up and down like yo-yo’s. Other good performances were shown by David Hoogenboom who won race two and Matt McDowell who won race five. Too much rum during the evening resulted in most of the sailors sleeping through their 3.30 alarms, and so missing another All Black win over the English.

Sunday saw an increasing breeze which peaked at about 18 knots, 3 races were sailed with Greg Wilcox wining the first and last race and Steve McDowell wining the second race of the day. Deaves again sailed consistently with a third, second, and seventh to take out the International Turangi Open for 2005 by a comfortable margin. Second, third and fourth overall went to Greg Wilcox, Steve McDowell and Karl Purdie respectively all from Wellington.

The results over the weekend have seen a tightening in the 2005 New Zealand ranking list after four regattas, Steve McDowell now has a two point lead over Mark Perrow but are being chased hard by Alistair Deaves and Greg Wilcox.

While the top five spots are held by Wellington and Auckland sailors, they will be no doubt be keeping their eyes on team Napier who have a mix of youth in Darren Hunt, and experience in Trent Pryce and Adrian Mannering. The Napier boys will be looking at a strong finish to the end of the series, and, with any one of them capable of an upset victory, the series is still alive.

While the top five have a jump over the rest of the top ten the upcoming nationals count for double points, add a further two more regattas as well as a drop into the equation and no doubt a few sailors will have their calculators out!

The next regatta is the New Plymouth Big Wave Classic in two weeks time. Hopefully we will see more of the enormous waves that we experienced last year and that the west coast is famous for!

Worser Bay Hurricane Classic

Wellington

5/6 November 2005

Worser Bay Hurricane Classic

Pos	Name	Sailno.	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	tot
1	Mark Perrow	521	Wakatere	4	4	3	5	2	18
2	Karl Purdie	502	Worser Bay	1	15	1	2	1	20
3	Steve McDowell	525	Worser Bay	15	1	2	1	3	22
4	Greg Wilcox	522	Worser Bay	3	3	4	4	15	29
5	Grant Pedesen	518	Wakatere	7	5	6	8	7	33
6	Darren Hunt	498	Napier	8	7	7	11	8	41
7	Alistair Deaves	472	Wakatere	10	15	5	7	6	43
8	Joe Porebski	523	Worser Bay	6	2	15	6	15	44
9	Owen Anderson	467	Worser Bay	5	15	15	9	5	49
10	Paul Rhodes	517	Worser Bay	15	15	15	3	4	52
11	Adrian Mannering	504	Napier	2	6	15	15	15	53
12	Matthew Bismark	491	Worser Bay	15	15	8	10	9	57
13	Trent Pryce	497	Napier	9	15	15	15	15	69
14	Peter Scheuerl	466	Napier	15	15	15	15	15	75

Report by Alistair Deaves

For the Worser Bay Hurricane Classic it just blew steaming monkey nuts. One day they came from the north and one day they came from the south. In Wellingtonian double-speak the phrase they use is ‘an easing breeze”. What this really means is that the wind will eventually ease off, but not until it has increased to such a level that the aero-dynamics of the OK rig completely break down, several boats are broken and the whole fleet is battered and worn and sitting in the clubhouse having a few beers. Only then will the wind “ease”; having itself a well earned rest to prepare itself for more “easing” on the next day!

And so Team Wakatere joined four sailors from Napier and a host of locals on the start line for the first race in an easing 35 knot northerly. Karl Purdie showed good skill by leading around the whole course, steadfastly refusing to capsize off wind, with Adrian Mannering from Napier some way back in second place.

Only 7 boats ventured out for the second race of the day. Greg Wilcox launched just 4 minutes before the start after a late decision to hit the water, and after possibly playing some head games with the other sailors watching the carnage from the safety of the club. The race itself was a battle between local Steve McDowell and Wakatere sailor Mark Perrow. Places kept changing until Perrow capsized at the last gybe, handing the race to McDowell. Worser Bay veteran Joe Porebski came home in second.

After an evening of fireworks and beer, Sunday morning actually looked quite good. But sure enough the wind was doing some more easing by the time we got to the start line. Karl Purdie again showed us a clean pair of heels in the first race, chased by McDowell. By race two the wind was over 30 knots again. The off wind sailing in the flatter water of the southerly was just fantastic. Unfortunately, 30 knot self tacking wind shifts at the top of the beat caused a few headaches. McDowell won this race after passing the leaders down the run and holding on to the finish with Purdie second.

With Purdie and McDowell counting a DNS and DNF respectively, the race for overall honours was between Perrow and Wilcox. Wilcox and Porebski swam at the wing mark and pulled out of the race. Perrow then only had to finish to win overall, achieving his best result of the regatta as he did so; a second place behind triple race winner Purdie, who could only wonder if he should had sailed race two.

So Perrow won after consistently finishing every race, being only one of three sailors to do so; the others being Grant Pedersen and Darren Hunt.

Labour Weekend Regatta 2005

Takapuna Boating Club

22 -24 October 2005

Labour Weekend Regatta 2005

Plc	Sail No	Helm	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Net
1	522	Greg Wilcox	Worser Bay BC	3	4	3	1	3	8	5	1	2	22
2	519	Steve McDowell	Worser Bay BC	7	7	1	2	7	3	1	2	3	26
3	511	Ben Morrison	Wakatere BC	2	2	2	10	2	2	2	DNC	DNC	36
4	521	Mark Perrow	Wakatere BC	1	1	4	5	9	5	3	DNC	DNC	42
5	516	Dan Slater		DNS	DNS	DNS	3	1	1	4	6	1	44
6	472	Alistair Deaves	Wakatere BC	6	3	10	6	8	9	8	3	5	48
7	518	Grant Pedersen	Wakatere BC	8	8	5	7	11	6	9	7	7	57
8	490	Trent Pryce	Napier SC	9	9	8	4	5	13	13	8	4	60
9	520	Russell Wood	Wakatere BC	4	6	7	8	6	4	11	DNC	DNC	60
10	498	Darren Hunt	Napier SC	11	11	9	13	13	10	7	4	6	71
11	504	Adrian Manning	Napier SC	DNS	DNS	DNS	12	4	12	6	5	8	75
12	508			10	5	6	11	10	11	10	DNC	DNC	77
13	500	Philip Rzepecky	Wakatere BC	5	10	11	9	12	7	12	DNC	DNC	80

Report by Steve McDowell

Labour weekend saw the second regatta of the OK Dinghy summer series with a fleet of 14 turning up to race in the Takapuna Labour weekend regatta. Know doubt this number will be bettered at the Turangi International Open in two weeks, and then at the official home of the OK, Worser Bay's Hurricane classic!

Saturday saw 3 races with winds of 12-18knots for the first two and 5-10knots for the last race of the day, the shifts were large and he who could sail to the right hand corner the quickest won! Phill Rzepecky showed some early form winning for most of the first race before Mark Perrow and Ben Morrison came through to finish 1st and 2nd respectively for races one and two.

The third race of the day started in lighter conditions and after the first beat really turned into a one way track, Steve McDowell got a small jump up the first beat and extended this out to win the race from Ben Morrison and Greg Wilcox.

Sunday saw more sun and lighter winds, the pressure really went on the boys to perform when NZ's Olympic gold medallist hopeful, Dan Slater turned out at the start! Conditions were good over the day with Greg Wilcox winning race 4, Dan Slater winning races 5 and 6 and Steve McDowell winning the last race of the day (race 7).

Monday was always going to be tough with the points very close at the top of the leader board between Morrison, Perrow, Wilcox and McDowell, someone was likely to crack, and it seemed to all fall apart for team Wakatere when they couldn't make the start.

This left Team Worser bay sailors Wilcox and McDowell to fight it out for overall honours, McDowell lead for all of race 8 but was piped on the line by Wilcox , race 9 saw another intense battle between Wilcox and McDowell, Dan Slater won the race but it was another close finish between Wilcox and McDowell with Wilcox again edging out McDowell for second and wrapping up the series.

Overall a very good weekends racing, made even better by having a sailor the calibre of Dan Slater to race against.

Lake Rotorua Regatta 2005

Rotorua

8/9 Oct 2005

1. Mark Perrow - Wakatere Boating Club
2. Steve MacDowell - Worser Bay Boating Club
3. Grant Pedersen - Wakatere
4. Alistair Deaves - Wakatere
5. Darren Hunt - Napier Sailing Club
6. Matt McDowell - Wakatere

Report by Alistair Deaves

Given the forecast, it was surprising that anybody turned up at all. Friday evening saw dogs being blown off chains and road signs being blown into road trailers, and the thought of getting into an OK and going sailing was the last thing on most peoples’ minds. Even so, six hardy OK Dinghy sailors turned up to battle the elements (along with fleets of Nolex 25s and Elliot 5.9s). Two more OK sailors arrived at the venue and didn’t sail. One didn’t even bring a boat! A third actually tried to cut off his leg with a grinder so that he had a good excuse not to go sailing.

There will be retribution. You know who you are!!

The organizing committee from the Bay of Plenty Trailer Sailor Association managed to get 4 races in on the Saturday. Extremely large shifts and sudden 30 knot squalls and cold driving rain were the order of the day. Black clouds would appear over the hill behind the town and descend on the fleet with amazing haste, laying waste to all before them. The secret to the racing was to ignore the 20 degree shifts and wait for the 40 degree plus shifts. It was this strategy that caused Grant Pedersen from Wakatere to win the first race. A thirty five know squall in the second race took out Steve McDowell from Worser Bay and sent him to the beach for repairs where he stayed while Mark Perrow from Wakatere won the next two races. Steve appeared for the last race of the day and became the only finisher as the wind increased to over 40 knots, the rest of the fleet seeking safety on the beach.

More moderate winds of 15 – 20 knots on the Sunday saw the two races shared between Steve and Mark. Steve’s DNS took him out of contention for the overall honours and so Mark Perrow becomes the first InterGalactic Rotovegas Champion. Hopefully next year we will have more sailors and better weather.

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