What a kick off to this year’s Hoe Tonga Paddla Series. 24 teams competed on the day, in excellent racing conditions.
Click here to see the results for Race 1, including points collected so far.
Photos will be shared on facebook as soon as they are made available.
Welcome to the Hoe Tonga PADDLA Series 2017, designed to attract new paddlers to our sport, and to enable paddlers and teams to prepare for the Long Distance Nationals 2017.
Races consist of a long course (12-15km) for senior teams, and a shorter course (5-8km) for junior and novice (1st year paddling) teams. The Series is overseen by Hoe Tonga, but each individual race is hosted and organised by member clubs or event organisers.
The series is big on participation, so we will have some cool spot prizes, including a Tai paddle.
Must read: Hoe Tonga PADDLA Series information package (click to download)
Our supporters
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All races at a glance
Race 1: 10 June (Sat), Dolly Varden Beach, Porirua
Race 2: 12 August (Sat), Onepoto in Titahi Bay, Porirua
Race 3: 2 September (Sat), Ngati Toa Domain, Porirua
Race 4: 23 September (Sat), Whanganui
Other information
What a great day for all with a record number of entries for both W6 and W1 events. Congratulations to all place-getters, and thanks again for the great support. Click here to download the full results.
Photos are available on Hoe Tonga’s facebook page at www.facebook.com/hoetonga.
For the first time in 16 years we have over 100 secondary schools entered for the 2017 Te Wānanga o Aotearoa National Secondary School Waka Ama!! With still a few schools left to enter this year is set to be the biggest and best yet!! #secondarieswakaama2017
http://wakaama.co.nz/racecalendar/lookup/1247
for further information.
It is with disappointment that Hoe Tonga has to announce the cancellation of the Mana Super 6 Ocean Challenge 2017 (including a Cook Strait Crossing race course option as previously successfully tested).
We could have worked with as little as 6 teams, just as the Molokai Hoe once started with a handful of teams. But we had a smaller than expected number of formal intents to race from teams by the due date, coupled with the unexpected withdrawal of teams that had previously committed to racing, thereby leaving us no choice but to cancel.
We would like to thank those sponsors and supporters that stuck with us to get this event format to the start line, including but not limited to Goodmanns, NZCT, Trust House, support boaties, key clubs such as PCKC and Hikoikoi agreeing to make their canoes available to teams, and those putting in the planning yards.
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Questions? Email hoetonga@gmail.com
And this was it for 2016. A few “firsts” at this event:
A big thank you to Trust House and the Copthorne Hotel in Masterton for housing some of our key officials.
And of course a big thank you to all officials, volunteers and supporters that made this event possible. Many of them pulled big hours to make this event happen, some of this started over 9 months ago. To name but a few:
Results and photos
We had live results on the day (still online) but if you missed it, click here to download a file showing all results. You can also replay some of the races at http://www.yacht-bot.com/races/11795 (unfortunately only the first 3 hours of Saturday’s racing as some trackers were not properly charged prior to the event).
Photos are now available. Please check Hoe Tonga’s facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Hoetonga/
Finally, the Club Excellence Award was again won by Porirua Canoe Kayak Club (112 points), the fourth year in a row albeit with Otaki Waka Hoe very close behind this time (93 points)! The James Hapeta Club Spirit Award was awarded to Wairarapa Waka Ama Canoe Club. Congratulations.
Unfortunately we ran out of time to do a prize giving on Saturday following the W6 and W12 races. Ribbons for the place getters will be posted to each club as soon as possible.
Click here to find out more: https://hoetonga.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/mana-super-6-ocean-challenge-2017/
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