Petone Regatta

This years Petone Regatta was challenging.  The highlight for me was the brave young juniors who, in the face of strong gusty winds, decided to give it a try anyway and went out and sailed.  One of the two sunburst crews actually finished quite well, while the others failed to start due to an equipment failure.  Unfortunately I got no photos of the event, but below are the results of the races that did run.

Date: 2019-11-24
Location: Petone foreshore
Status: Terminated - weather
Water temp: 18.00C
Average wind: 18.00kt
Predominant wind direction: NNW

Attendance

Age Group	Number
Junior	28
Intermediate	20
Senior	20
Adult	16

Group Points

Group	Points
Britannia	16
Eastern Bays	0
St James	36
Ngati Toa	16
Paraparaumu Beach	0
Kotuku	0
Westshore	0

SAILING

SUNBURST	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	St James	NTSS	Britannia
Intermediate
Senior
Open

CUTTER	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior
Intermediate
Senior	St James	Britannia	NTSS
Open

ROWING

	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	St James	NTSS	Britannia
Intermediate	St James	Britannia	NTSS
Senior	St James	Britannia
Open	St James	NTSS

Painting banana boxes for jamboree

This week the Scouts painted their banana boxes for Jamboree.  Every Scout and leader will take have two boxes.  We use the boxes because they fit well into the (really tight) space in the truck taking our gear to Jamboree and then they fit easily under the camp stretchers to keep tents tidy and everyone's gear easy to find.

The Scouts not going to Jamboree helpfully painted boxes for Leaders (including one for Derrick which says in bright orange letters "I am a girl".)

2019 Pauahatanui Inlet Cleanup

Every year the Guardians of the Inlet organise a cleanup of the Pauahatanui Inlet.  This year we have a fantastic turn out of scouts to help out with cleaning up our environment.  We found all sorts of wonderful rubbish that pollutes our waterways, from tyres found and labouriously rolled back by Alfie and Gabi, to old drain pipes found by Ruby and Ciara. Lots of bits of plastic and old bottles and glass were retrieved and sent off to the landfill where they can be better dealt with.

We split into two groups, so that with the incoming tide, the younger Scouts and Cubs were kept in Ivy Bay to clean the surrounds, while the older scouts trekked to the end of Golden Point to clean up from there all the way back to Ivy Bay.  Both sets of Scouts (and Cubs) worked really well and between us we filled 6 bags of rubbish and a tyre!

The younger Scouts looking through the high tide rubbish for plastics and other bits of rubbish

Will, Hamish, Harry, Alfie and Rosie completing the last bit of the Golden Point to Ivy Bay beach

Gathering the rubbish bags (and tyre) to return to Browns Bay.

As a resident of the area that directly benefits from these efforts, I applaud and thank the scouts for their efforts and look forward to doing it with you again.

More pictures here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yAFK4DJRTt5gfPrY7

Onepoto Regatta 2019

This labour weekend we kicked off the Regatta season with the usual style.  The Onepoto regatta is a full weekend of all the Sea Scout major activities: Sailing, Rowing, Kayaking, Iron Scout and Seamanship.  We also did our usual camp on the domain over night.  This year a change in dinner providers also saw a change in menu, with the Ngati Toa parents excelling themselves in producing what looked to me like 100+ pizzas.

Unfortunately not many photographs were taken of the events, but those that we do have are here

Ngati Toa Juniors, winning the rowing

Results look like this:

SAILING

SUNBURST	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	NTSS	St James	Britannia
Intermediate	Britannia	NTSS	St James
Senior	St James	NTSS	Paraparaumu Beach
Open	St James	Paraparaumu Beach	NTSS

CUTTER	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	St James	Britannia	NTSS
Intermediate	NTSS	Britannia	Westshore
Senior	St James	Britannia	NTSS
Open	St James	Paraparaumu Beach	NTSS

ROWING

	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	NTSS	St James	Britannia
Intermediate	St James	Westshore	Britannia
Senior	St James	Britannia	NTSS
Open	St James	Britannia	NTSS

KAYAKING

	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	NTSS	Westshore	St James
Intermediate	Britannia	NTSS	Westshore
Senior	St James	NTSS	Britannia

IRON SCOUT

	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior	NTSS	Westshore	St James
Intermediate	NTSS	Britannia	Westshore
Senior	St James	Britannia	NTSS
Open	-	-	-

SEAMANSHIP

	1st	2nd	3rd
Junior/Int	St James	Britannia	Westshore
Senior	St James	NTSS	Britannia