2021 Worser Bay Regatta

 

GROUP POINTS

Group	Junior Points	Intermediate Points	Senior Points	Open Points
Britannia
Eastern Bays
St James
Ngāti Toa
Paraparaumu Beach
Kotuku
Westshore

Wellington Scouts Regatta Points							Event:	Worser Bay Regatta
							Date:	14 March 2021
	Sailing				Sunburst
	Open	Open	Open	Open	Junior	Junior	Open	Open	Open	Open	Final
Britannia	2	2	1	2			1	6	4	2	20
	Total	7			Total	13
Ngati Toa	4	4	4	6	2	4	6	4		4	38
	Total	18			Total	20
St James	6	6	6	1	6	6	4	2	6	6	49
	Total	19			Total	30
P Beach	1	1	2	4	4		2				14
	Total	8			Total	6

SAILING RACES

Session	R a c e	Wellington Scouts Regatta Placings
			1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
S1	R1	Junior Sunburst	1839 SJ	1359 PB	1798 NT
	R2	Junior Sunburst 2	381 SJ	514 NT
S2	R3	Open Sunburst	1798 NT	1839 SJ	1359 PB	1835 BR
	R4	Open Cutter	192 SJ	83 NT	9 BR	221 PB	219 NT
S3	R5	Open Sunburst	1834 BR	1798 NT	1839 SJ
	R6	Open Cutter	192 SJ	83 NT	9 BR	221 PB	219 NT
S4	R7	Open Sunburst	1839 SJ	1834 BR
	R8	Open Cutter	192 SJ	83 NT	221 PB	9 BR	219 NT
S5	R9	Open Sunburst	1839 SJ	1798 NT	1834 BR
	R10	Open Cutter	219 NT	221 PB	9 BR	83 NT	192 SJ

2021 Hickson Regatta

What fun!  The weather, the scouts, the sea, it all played out in a fantastically fun regatta.  Our scouts excelled themselves, playing the part of Venturers and Open teams as well as sailing in all their own classes.  The leaders got to have a couple of goes too, with Grant and Derrick getting a fourth and Cath and Kym doing well too.

Our Sunbursts all wearing their new coloured jibs

Matt on helm in the Open Cutter Race

GROUP POINTS

Group	Junior Points	Intermediate Points	Senior Points	Open Points
Britannia	7	8	6	6
Eastern Bays
St James	18	14	12	14
Ngāti Toa	8	14	16	8
Paraparaumu Beach	6	2	4	11
Kotuku
Westshore

SAILING RACES

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

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

ROWING RACES

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

The Open Team (Leaders) winning the rowing

2021 Onepoto Raft Race

They say a Captain should go down with his ship.  We'll I am glad then that the inlet is as shallow as it is and that our scouts can build rafts that last the distance, some of them impressively so.  This years raft race was won in 35 minutes.  We have never recorded finishing times before but it was certainly an impressive display of speed and coordination.  

Good support from lots of troops this year made for an exciting race, both in the building and the sailing of the rafts.  Troops who built rafts include:

• Raumati South Scouts & Venturers
• Ngati Toa Scouts & Venturers
• Paekakiriki Scouts
• Whitby Scouts
• Waikanae Scouts
• Otaki Scouts and
• St Mary's Scouts who came out from Levin

(If I have left anyone out, please let me know)

Briefing was at 9am, and following last years dismal number of bribes, officials didn't bother reminding people they could be bought!  Building began fairly promptly and rafts very quickly began to take shape, although some shapes were definitely more interesting than others.

At 10am most of the rafts were already on the beach and reasy to start.  Lance and I waved them off and the race began.

The race proceeded with less than usual coming apart of rafts and drifting barrels, but it wouldn't be a raft race without some at least.  All crews this year finished the course and came home on something that resembled the raft they left on.

Below is a narrative written by one of the scouts of their own epic journey:

"Once the officials had finished explaining how the race was going to work, different groups started to meld together and almost immediately started gathering materials for their rafts. My group was comprised of me, Amelia, Kalina, Trinaya, Emma, Zoe, Rose, Calvin, and Hamish. After we had established that we were a group, and that we could use eleven flotation devices altogether, we quickly split off to gather resources so we wouldn’t miss out on any of the more popular resources like ropes and inner tubes.

We soon stood in front of our collection; three light blue barrels, two inner tubes, two small piles of rope, and two bottles. We spent about ten minutes brainstorming until Zoe came up with a design that we all agreed on, so we set to work building it. There were definitely a lot of little things during the construction that made it fun, adding our inner tube, realising that someone had stolen our second inner tube, making our rafts sail (A covid19 scanner, remember to scan!), naming our raft after said  sail (covid21 was her name),and all all sorts of other things.

She collapsed the minute she touched the water. (See the last picture above) But that was fine, this is fine, everything is fine. Against all odds we persevered! Morale was high for most of the journey and we all had a great time, (except for those who felt a walk was the better alternative). Our odd choice of sea shanties definitely contributed a lot to the fun atmosphere on the raft, if you must know we sang ‘let it go’ and ‘barbie girl’, but definitely sang the chorus to living on a prayer a lot more than either since none of us knew the verses. In the final count we lost our three barrels and a paddle. They were all picked up by the patrol boats though, so we did have everything at the end of the race. Overall 10/10 experience would recommend."  (by Rosie)

Finishing was a long process, taking between 35 minutes for the quickest to 1 hour 40 for the last raft to come home.

This years race was won in both categories (Yes we have two trophies now) by Raumati South Scouts & Venturers.

Raumati Scouts - 2021 Raft Race winners

Raumati Venturers - 2021 Raft Race winners - 
holding on to the trophy for another year

Well done to all who participated and enjoyed themselves to the max.  Thats what these events are for.  Thanks to all the leaders and parents for supporting their scouts and to the safety boat crews who ferried endless numbers of raft pieces that liberated themselves from their parent rafts!

Now we are all looking forward to next years event!