Thursday 1 – Sunday 4 October, Orewa Beach, Auckland
Te Tauihu was well represented at the Long Distance Nationals this weekend. the medal tally was impressive from our paddlers. Sounds like the conditions overall were good. Great work!
- W6 Open Men: Gold – Callum O’Leary, (Pineula)
- W6 Senior Master Mixed: Gold – Glenn, Jacs, Jane (Hoe Aroha)
- OC1 Golden Master: Silver – Glen Hardinge (Hoe Aroaha)
- OC1: Senior Master Men: Silver – Craig Allen (Te Waka Pounamu)
- OC1: Golden Master: Bronze – Maara Ave (Maitahi)
- OC1: Open Men: 4th – Callum O’Leary (Pineula)
- W6 Open Women: Bronze – Quinella Neho (Te Waka Pounamu)
- W6: Master Women: 5th – Huriana, Anisha, Anna (Waikawa)
- W6 Senior Master Men: 7th – VO2, Jace, Craig, Seb (Te Waka Pounamu)
- W6 Senior Master Women: 7th – Linda, Carol, Karen, Tracey, Bergette, MJ (Motueka)
- W6 Senior Master Women: 4th – Jacs, Jane Townsend (Hoe Aroha)
- W6 Golden Master Mens: 7th – Krakens Pete, Tony, Maara, Wayne, Cliff, Jeff (Maitahi)
Looking at the result it sounds like there was some close racing.
By all accounts it was a great venue. The course was adapted to the weather.
Tony’s comments from the Krakens 60+:
It was a triangular (ish) course. The weather was warm with a stiff offshore wind for the men’s race. There was a decent downwind leg followed by a long crossing in Nelson Cut in washing machine water. We were fighting for 3rd place until that horrible stretch on the 2nd circuit when we fell apart a bit!
Linda was steering a new Hydra waka for Unhinged (SMW). Her comments:
The hydra was amazing once I felt more comfortable going over to the right. Conditions were better for us than what I went out in on Friday. On the first leg the wind was behind us and felt calm. Around the first bouy which was just 500m out as it was side on sloppy stuff, then round the second bouy into a head wind, but if I stayed on the left I could get some good movement, around the 3rd bouy if I stayed on the left and small pokes, we passed another waka.
