Tai Tonga – Evans Bay Race 16 April

Below you can find an Information Pack compiled for Hoe Tonga Secondary School Sprints planned for Saturday 5 March 2011, postponement date Sunday 6 March.

Registrations open: 31 January 2011 and close 24 February 2011

This information has been diseminated to Sports Coordinators in Wellington Secondary Schools by College Sport Wellington and it is hoped that your clubs can assist in the preparation of teams and Secondary Schools who have students who wish to take part in this event.

NKOA (Nga Kaihoe o Aotearoa) is holding the 10th National Secondary School Waka Ama Sprint event in Rotorua at the end of March and additional information regarding this event can be found www.wakaama.co.nz and this is what our regional paddlers will be preparing for.

Volunteers are encouraged to assist with the running of this event and a form is attached to be completed if you have an interest in this area.

Hoe Tonga acknowledges and thanks those clubs who already have built strong relationships with schools in our region and urge others to assist where possible to encourage the growth and development of our rangatahi.

Masters Games – Whanganui 2011

Posted on January 31, 2011 by hoetonga

Take up the challenge of paddling on the Whanganui River as Waka Ama makes its debut at the New Zealand Masters Games for the second time in over 10 years.

VENUE: Whanganui River, Union Boat Club, Taupo Quay
DATE: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th February 2011
EVENTS: Men, Women and Mixed events
DISTANCE: 500m, 1000m, 2000m, 5000m distances
CATEGORIES: W1 and W6
AGE: 35+ and 45+ age divisions (as at 13th February 2011)
COST: $55.00 Masters Games registration plus $20.00 race fee
Email your interest and assistance with registration by 7th Feb to mgwaka@gmail.com

new race calendar functionality on this website

Posted on January 13, 2011 by hoetonga

check out the following:

1. on the left you can see the regional calendar showing all races happening in the region only. Click on a race to see some basic info (where, who organises it). To add your race, send an email with details to hoetonga@gmail.com.

2. on the right hand side of the bar at the top you can access a “race calendar” page. This calendar shows all regional races AND races happening elsewhere. This “google” calendar is linked to the calendar on http://www.wakaama.co.nz, so when a race is added by NKOA ii automatically shows up here.

Hoe Tonga

Welly Paddlers Series Race 5, 19 Dec, at Petone

Posted on December 15, 2010 by hoetonga

It’s been 4 weeks too long since our last race, this has been due to us working around many events, in a number of the paddling Sports.

December 19 sees us head out to the Esplanade, Petone (opposite Cuba Street) for the race around Matiu (Somes) Island and back it’s distance of 8.2 km and the start time is 10 am……………registration will be from 9.15 am.

Race briefing 9.50 am

The Wind forecast is for 19 kph to 30 kph Northerly winds which looks promising.

If the weather kicks up too much we will have an alternate course likely to be from the Wellington Waterski club along the foreshore up the Hutt River to the Seaview bridge and back again…………….or any other configuration that matches the water conditions on the day.

Entry fee:
$ 5 singles
$8 doubles
$12 sixes

It is an open water course and it is recommended that you either wear or carry a buoyancy vest.

Other safety equipment like spray skirts, leg leashes, paddle floats, pumps, bailers, flares, cellphones UHF radios are all equipment that you can also carry and may save your bacon one day.

We expect that you carry the appropriate equipment for your craft and that you are able to roll if you capcise your kayak or have the ability to self rescue (using a paddle float) first and foremost.

There won’t be any motorised race safety boats on the course.

We will be setting an “easy to manage” course on the day, paddlers are free to choose whether they are able to race the course that we set.

www.wellypaddlers.blogspot.com for an update on the Race Calendar, also photos and results from the Greta Point Twilight Kayak Series.

For all our events we post the wind forecast 4 days out from each race on our website.

The schedule for the second half of the Welly Paddlers Series was also posted on our Events calendar early last week.

Chester

W6 Sprints postponed, now on Sunday 12 December, due to adverse weather forecast

Posted on December 10, 2010 by hoetonga

Apologies but the weather forecast is poor for Saturday, particularly for the morning when all juniors are scheduled to race. The committee has therefore decided to postpone the event until Sunday 12 December.

For your information, the forecast as per metservice at 11.30am today is as follows:

Saturday: Northwest 35 knots gusting 45 knots, easing to 25 knots in the afternoon and to 15 knots at night. Very rough sea becoming rough in the afternoon and slight at night. Poor visibility in morning drizzle, clearing in the afternoon.
Sunday: Northerly rising to 20 knots in the afternoon. Fine spells, then late drizzle.

Note that all other plans remain in place, see information package as per previous post.

If you have to withdraw your team due to unavailability, please inform Joern on joern.scherzer@gmail.com asap so that the lane draw can be amended before Sunday morning. However, we hope that all teams and volunteers can still make it to create a successful event – despite Wellington’s regular weather hoo haas.

W6 Sprints 11 Dec: race schedule and lane draw

Posted on December 9, 2010 by hoetonga

Note that the event may be postponed until Sunday due to the weather forecast (gales). This will be confirmed by lunch time on Friday 10 December via a notice on this website.

Click here to download the race schedule.

Note that due to the small number and lack of entries in a couple of divisions, they have been combined with others (eg O23, MasterMen, etc.).

Click here to download the lane draw.

Click here to download the race information package, it has all relevant information.