Bay Harbour: January 08, 2020

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Wednesday January 8 2020
Young guns going for gold
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FIVE YOUNG sailors from
Lyttelton’s Naval Point Yacht
Club have their sights set on
victory at the CRC Bay of
Islands Sailing Week later this
month.
The teenage crew of Isaac
Armstrong, Rebecca Lee,
Claude Southwick, Thomas
Pirker, and Mitchell Rennie,
will compete as a team at New
Zealand’s biggest keelboat
regatta from January 21 to 24.
The team, led by 18-year-old
Armstrong, are aiming to win
the Young 88 division. They
will compete in a borrowed
boat which none of them have
sailed before, and their interisland
campaign is paid for entirely
by their own fundraising
efforts and sponsorship.
Although they will be going
up against the largest fleet
of Young 88 class yachts the
regatta has seen in its 18-year
history, he says his team have
what it takes to win.
“We’ve got a good fleet and
lots of rock stars in the fleet as
well,’’ said Armstrong.
“It’ll be a tough ask, but I
reckon we can surprise a few
people.”
Armstrong is no stranger
CONFIDENT: Naval Point Yacht Club sailors Isaac Armstrong, Rebecca Lee, Claude
Southwick, Thomas Pirker and Mitchell Rennie are aiming to win the Young 88 division at
CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week.
to the podium, with wins in
each of the previous three
years he has sailed in the event,
although none yet as skipper.
In addition, four of his five
crew recently won the Elliott
6 South Island Youth championships,
and says they are
keen to keep up the winning
performance.
He said they also want to send
a message to other youth sailors
that anything is possible.
Running a campaign on a
shoestring budget, and raising
funds to cover the cost by doing
odd jobs on other people’s
boats, is all part of the team’s
efforts to show other young
sailors what they can achieve
with a bit of effort.
Armstrong said many young
sailors drop out of the sport
after school, and he’s keen to
show sailors his age there are
other pathways available that
could keep them interested in
the sport.
The team will arrive in
Auckland just days before the
regatta to collect their yacht
called Undercover.
The Young 88 was loaned
to them for the regatta by
Akaroa man Jonny Bell, who
Armstrong said didn’t take
much convincing to get behind
the campaign and support the
local sailors.