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Sunday, 13 May 2012 |
Youth Scheme sailor Josh Porebski (right) sailing with Marcus Hansen from Auckland has finished in sixth place overall in the 2012 49er World Championships in Zadar Croatia. Josh and Marcus finished the regatta in style winning the medal race in the red hot fleet of 74 crews including many of the teams who will compete in the Olympic Games later this year.
Josh and Marcus have been travelling in Europe as training partners for New Zealand sailing team members Peter Burling and Blair Tuke. They have been together for less than six months which makes this result all the more impressive.
They now travel to Weymouth England for the ''Sail For Gold' World Sailing Cup regatta. Well done Josh and good luck for the next event.
Watch a video at the end of the regatta including a great interview with Josh after the medal race here
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 |
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Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club began delivering the 2012 Wellington Youth Scheme Winter Match Racing Programme last Saturday. There are a total of 37 sailor involved this year with four boats going out in each of the morning and afternoon sessions.
It’s exciting that the bulk of the sailors are in the 13 to 16 years age range meaning they have plenty of years ahead of them to develop into top match racers. The sailors come from a variety of dinghy clubs around the region meaning that many get to sail with sailors from other clubs to keep things fresh and shows the strength of youth sailing throughout the Wellington region.
The Programme will run through to September and will build towards an ISAF grade 5 match racing regatta where the sailors will put into practice what they have learnt throughout the winter and begin the process of gaining world ranking points.
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Thursday, 26 April 2012 |
Youth Scheme sailor Josh Porebski is in France as part of the New Zealand Sailing Team talent development squad racing in the 49er class at the 3rd leg of the 2012 ISAF World Sailing Cup.
The fleet has split into gold and siliver and over night Porebski and team mate Marcus Hansen have reocrded a 6, 3, 1 socrecard to put them in fourth place in the silver fleet and 29th overall.
Porebski and Hansesn are travelling in Europe as training partners for New Zealand's Olympic representatives in the 49er class and will remain overseas through to just before the Olympics.
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 |
Ten teams of ten people descended on the Wardroom for the inaugrual Youth Scheme Quiz Night and in the process raised over $3500 for Youth Scheme programme.
Lou and the wardroom team got the evening underway by making sure everyone was well prepared in anticipation of the competiton that was about to unfold. Quiz master Nick Tansley did a great job of feeding the competitive juices and making the eveing flow.
Port Nicholson Yachting Trust chairman John Coltman congratulated the team of Under 21 Squad sailors who put the evening together. They organised the entire event from designing posters, advertising the evening, selling the tickets, securing the quizmaster to organising the questions, arranging the evening meal, running the raffles and collating the scores.
"It is fantastic to see that our young sailors can not only match it on the race course but they are also proving to have very strong skills off the water as well" said Coltman. "Growing good people is just as important to the Trust as performing well on the water and the evening the sailors organised is a testamanet to how good our young people are."
And for the record the Middelton team won the quiz!
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Thursday, 01 March 2012 |
RPNYC Youth Scheme sailor Adam Middleton has been awarded one of only five outstanding university scholarships for students in New Zealand for his work on the Wellington Ocean Water Sports Centre.
"Adam came and saw me at the beginning of 2011 and asked if there were any projects around the club that he could work on for his year 13 design project at Scots College" explains RPNYC CEO Dean Stanley.
"At that point we had just been asked by the Wellington City Council to work up some preliminary designs for various aspects of the Clyde Quay Boat Harbour Restoration Project including the Wellington Ocean Water Sports Centre. I gave Adam a copy of the design brief for the centre and asked him to see what he could do".
Over the next eight months Adam became a full member of the project team attending meetings and presenting initial ideas then working these up into a full blown plan.
"I was delighted with the ideas that Adam came up. He is well ahead of us with his thinking as we are still very much at the stage of mapping out where various elelments might go. His ideas are certainly food for thought and I have no doubt that they will inspire us as we work up the design solution for the Wellington Ocean Water Sports Centre" said Stanley.
Adam is now studying design at Massey University in between sailing for the Youth Scheme and organising the upcoming quiz night.
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 |
The Youth Scheme is organising a Quiz evening to help raise funds for Youth Scheme programme. Tickets are for sale for $35. Included in your ticket price is a meal provided by the wardroom team. This will be a good fun evening with proceeds going to a worthy cause.
Either book your own spot and we will add you to a team or get a group of six to ten together to make a team.
To book a ticket email Adam Middleton on
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Come and support our youth sailors.
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