Blake Batten wins PredictWind P Class Tauranga Cup!
After three full on days of racing, Blake Batten has claimed back-to-back Tauranga Cups and P Class National Championship titles!
After three full on days of racing, Blake Batten has claimed back-to-back Tauranga Cups and P Class National Championship titles!
Here are all the photos from Day 3 of the 2026 PredictWind P Class Tauranga Cup – P Class Nationals at Kohimarama Yacht Club.
The 2026 ILCA Oceania & Australian Open Championships have wrapped up after a demanding and highly competitive week of racing on Hobart’s River Derwent.
It was mission accomplished for Matt Wearn and Emma Plasschaert on the final day of sailing in the 2026 Oceania and Australian Open and Youth Championships in Hobart today…
Here are all the photos from Day 2 of the 2026 PredictWind P Class Tauranga Cup – P Class Nationals at Kohimarama Yacht Club.
Things heated up for the second day of racing at the PredictWind P Class Tauranga Cup, with Hamish Brown and Blake Batten finishing the day in the tent. Yep. The tent.
Jono Ridler is out of the blocks and getting ready to ramp it up after three days, and 40.7kms logged in his Swim4TheOcean.
Or at least if they were more miniature than they already are! (Just for fun)
Queensland’s Mara Stransky is the leading Australian female sailor in the ILCA 6 Gold Fleet competing in the 2026 Oceania and Australian Open and Youth Championships in Hobart.
Defending P Class Tauranga Cup Champion Blake Batten has come out swinging – Zofia Wells drops her rig. Hamish Brown reckons Blake got lucky.
We posted a reel to our socials and while some people celebrated the epic roll tack and port hand cross of a young sailor, others tried to pick it to pieces.
Only three girls have ever won the P Class Tanner Cup, and only two have won the P Class Tauranga Cup (National Championship). 44 have won the Naomi James Challenge Trophy.
Australia’s Matt Wearn has taken a commanding lead in the 2026 ILCA Oceania and Australian Open..
Three days of qualifying races are over for the ILCA 4 and ILCA 6 fleets with the sailors now assigned..
And Hamish Brown took out the Centenary Cup, wrapping up this part of the 2026 P Class National Championship. The Tauranga Cup starts tomorrow.
It would be awesome to identify everyone in the photo from the 1978 P Class Tanner & Tauranga Cups which was held Otago Yacht Club in Dunedin!
After six races, it’s time to check in to catch up on how the six Kiwis are going.
World-record attempt aims to unite New Zealanders and push for an end to bottom trawling
Back in the day, the Tanner Cup was cut-throat and there was a lot of controversy around who lived in what region and who they would race for. It wasn’t and isn’t open slather.
The organisers of the Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta have announced a major new addition..
Jon Bilger has his name on the P Class Tanner & Tauranga Cups twice. And now he’s back supporting the class as the naming sponsor for the 2026 event. The PredictWind P Class Nationals.
It’s almost time to pick up the camera again! To kick of 2026, we are heading to the Kohimarama Yacht Club for the 2026 PredictWind P Class National Championship!
For many young sailors, the step from junior classes into youth pathways can be as daunting as it is exciting.
This question was raised when Cameron Thorpe was applying for a PHRF certificate for the Bakewell-White 37, General Lee.
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