Monthly Archives: July 2013

Race 4 – Onepoto – Results WP Winter Series

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Big Thanks to the PCKC team for hosting the event today Pania, Turi and John Hodges. The 10 km course was a relatively straight forward course for the sit down paddlers and headed under the bridges into the Pauatahanui Inlet to the Browns Bay buoy and back.

The SUP course headed along the relative shelter of the Whitireia Park Hillside before the SUP paddlers were challenged by both wind and tide heading out the channel to the last green marker post where the Men did 6 km with the women turning earlier to complete a distance of 4 km.

Event FIVE is on August 18 and will be hosted by Chris Fox and the Hikoikoi Club at Petone. 
W6 Mens 10km
44:30 PCKC Men

Surf ski/kayak 10km
 49:07 Mike Tate
49:19 Chester Burt
51:21 Andrew Carey
53:05 Paddy Urlich
53:08 Dave Ryde
56:36 Dave McKnight
56:41 Sandy Winterton
57:10 Iain Gillies
58:43 Pete Notman
60:07 Graham Daniel
DNF Harry Wingar

W1 Men 10km
 51:50 Paddy Rimene
55:50 Neil O’Brien
56:20 Piki Emery
57:11 Chris Mike
57:25 Rick Ruparere
58:28 Sefo Misky
58:57 George Fa’alogo
62:11 Terry Gardiner
70:30 Willie Kappely

W1 Women 10km
 56:16 Marianna Hodges
63:27 Chris Fox
64:04 Deb Blake
64:37 Raewyn Anderson
65:37 Selena Katene
66:52 Paula Napier
75:48 Alana Joe

W6 Junior Girls 10 km
 66:16 PCKC Junior Girls

SUP Men 6 km
48:49 Rob Collins
48:49 Hans Wannemacher
50:15 John Toomath
54:44 Chris Brown
54:55 Brodie McGregor
56:07 Karl LeQuesne
61:12 Joe Konlechner
66:30 Aaron Boslem
78:04 Alex Dean
83:27 Karl Wannemacher

 SUP Women 4 km
 56:44 Lei Faletolu
56:47 Sharlene Winiata

Male Waka Ama Paddler for Advertising Shoot

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Red Rocket Talent Agency

Audition interview Thursday 25 July

1 x  male 30 – 40 single Waka paddler
This paddler will need to provide his own waka
See him with his paddle paddling out into the harbour he stops and take stock of the view enjoying the moment.
3 minute video tool kit for Tourism, Trade and Enterprise and Education NZ (for this purpose called “NZ Story”)
Filming in Wellington 11 August – $1500.00 gross

If interested please email :  jude@launching.co.nz

 

Hot off the waves: what’s happening around the region?

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Items of interest from the two last Hoe Tonga Meetings:

  • New date: 1 Dec: NZ Active Post Waka Ama Challenge
  • New date: 7-8 Dec: Hoe Tonga Regional Sprint Championships (reserve date 14-15 Dec)
  • Mana Super 6 Ocean Challenge: race scheduled for 8 February, interested parties to assist with organising please contact Joern  
  • World Sprints 2014 in Rio: Selection process has now been put in   place, see http://www.wakaama.co.nz/stories/read/1003299
  •  Sanctioning: NKOA have now completed this policy; a copy is to be sent to each club in each region. From November all races on the national calendar have to be sanctioned in order for them to stay on the calendar.
  • NKOA’s coaching  framework: The first 3 modules are completed and will released for trial to 3 groups.
  • LDN 2014 will be held in Christchurch
  • Race course: We started a discussion on possible sites/options for a sprint race course in the Wellington Region; the development of a water storage lake in the Hutt with the potential for use for waka ama sprint races could be promising
  • AGM now on 9 September: clubs are asked to forward names of interested persons to stand for office
  • New technologies: Hoe Tonga looking at the possibilities of use of I-pad app for timing distance races. This was used this year at LDN very successfully; we are also trialling a race tracking system called  Yacht Bot (app).

Full minutes from the last two meetings (click to open):