Taikata Sailing Club

03/09/2026

Kia ora,

A warm welcome to the 2026/27 from the Taikata Sailing Club.
We look forward to another season with you.

We start the season with the working Bee and shakedown race on the same day.
So it's time to get your boat ready and bring yourself along for some tidying and then sailing.

The working Bee:
Saturday 5th September
Start: 9:00am
General tidying. Gardening, water blasting, cleaning up boat storage and inside the club.

Sailing will follow after.

Start: 1:00pm ish
Patrol Boat: Nick
Conditions: Currently the Windy app is saying 8 knots gusting 12 knots.

Please remember to pay your club fees/subs if you have not yet.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday and look forward to another successful season with you all. If last season is anything to go by, we can achieve great things together with our people.

Kind regards,

Paddy

08/08/2026

Thanks to all the sailors and volunteers who turned out to make our Backwater Champs regatta a success yesterday. We had 17 J14's and a great mix of Frosties, IA's and a Sunny in the open division. Competition was tight due to the sprint race format and tricky tactical quirks of the Taikata race area.

However, as always the cream rose to the top with the J14 trophy taken out by Mark Shaw, and the Open fleet honors going to Truby and Cameron Dunn in the IA.

Huge thanks to our sponsors:
Bush Sails
Caniwi Rigging
Carbotec
Burnsco Westgate
Dinghy Workshop

07/08/2026

Attention Auckland dinghy sailors:

Tomorrow (Saturday 8th August) Taikata SC is hosting the 'Backwater Champs' open to all dinghies including J14's, IA's and Frostbites. Regatta format is close to shore sprint races with EXCELLENT PRIZES!! Thanks to our sponsors:

Bush Sails
Carbotec
Caniwi Rigging Services
Dinghy Workshop
Burnsco Westgate

Entries on the day only $30!

04/08/2026

We are excited to host the first Backwater champs at TSC this Saturday 8th of August. The event is open to all our classes but has been born out of creating a J14 regatta. There will be a number of J14's coming and we will have our Frostbite class too. We are hoping to have another class of Idle along with two IA's confirmed as coming.
It looks like it will be an exciting day with more than 20 boats on the water, a real possibility!

Please come along and participate and support TSC host the Ji14's with our presence.

The Notice of Race is attached.

The format is short course racing with no more than 4 races.
The first signal is scheduled for 13:30pm
The racing briefing will be no later than 13:00pm
Entry is open from 11:00am-13:00pm and is $30.00

Prizes to be won!

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

20/06/2026

17/06/2026

Kia ora,
This Weekend is the Auckland Champs.

Saturday: Races 1-3
Start: 11:00am
Tide: High at 11:30am and 3.3
Patrol boat: Tony
Conditions: Currently on the Windy app, 2.4 knots coming from the NW gusting 4 knots.

Sunday: Races 4-6
Start: 12:00pm
Tide: High at 12:30pm and 3.2
Patrol boat: Tony
Conditions: Currently on the Windy app, 9.7-10 knots coming from the NW gusting 19

Conditions are obviously likely to change.

THis is a great opportunity to get some good sailing. Multiple races provide exciting short course racing where you can reset and go again.
So come on and turn up for practice or competitive racing. With what looks like a range of breeze the weekend is offering something or everyone.
Those that come both days usually fare much better than the rest.

We look forward to seeing you this weekend at Taikata
Kind regards,
Paddy

03/06/2026

Kia ora,
This weekend is a Winter Series Race. Sunday 7th June
Start: 11:00am
Tide: 2.9
Patrol Boat: Tom B or TBC
Conditions: Currently the Windy app is saying 14-16 knots. It could change between now and Sunday.

Upcoming racing days:
Auckland champs Sat 20th and Sun 21st June. Start 11:00am and 12:00pm

5th July Sun Trophy day 10:30am Winter race or Trophy day

Friday 10th July (Matariki) 3:00pm Winter race or Trophy day. Yes, it's Friday. The tides are a bit too late on Saturday or Sunday. It's the best we could do.

Sat 8th August J14's are coming to TSC for racing. Frostbite fleet is welcome and encouraged. This will be fun and a great opportunity to showcase our waters, club, hospitality and have two fleets racing!

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
Kind regards,
Paddy

24/04/2026

Kia ora,
This Sunday is the first race (after two first goes at it) of the Winter Series.
Start time: 2:00pm
Tide: 2.2
Patrol boat: To be confirmed
Conditions: Currently on the windy app it is saying 4-6 knots.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday and getting onto the water! It's been a while,

04/03/2026

BIG SUNDAY SAILING COMING UP.

In addition to are regular programming, see below, and mullet boats are coming- for the Roger collet memorial race event.

Kia ora,
Welcome to the Winter Series.
Race 1 is this Sunday, March 8th
Start: 11:00am
Tide: 3.2
Patrol boat: Tony
Conditions: Currently the Windy app is saying 6-9 knots coming from the south west.
This far out it is looking good. A good opportunity to get out on the water.

We had a good turn out at the 2nd Annual Carbotec Masters Regatta. It was a beautiful weekend with some nice sailing conditions. Saturday was short course match racing and Sunday was out to targets and back, some sailors cutting through the mangroves! It was fun. A solid fleet of 13 Frostbites and 5 in the open fleet across both days. Congratulations to Dan Bush taking out the overall win in his Finn! Adrian Pawson took out the Frostbite fleet win and the overall Handicap win in Charisma. Well done Adrian! Closely followed by Tom Parrish in Phred who was consistent as ever. Tom Bell and Sean got third on Handicap overall the IA, Gemini showing up quite a few of us by gaining and passing after the frostbites had left 5 mins before. Well done you guys!
Last weekend was the 100th Anniversary of the Wakatere club. We had an invitation and turned up with 7 Frostbites on Saturday for the two races and Geoff Shearman in Shadze on Sunday for the sail to the Masonic and back. There were a lot of boats out there and it was great to see the fleet do a sail past the iconic starting tower there at Narrowneck. Wakatere were really appreciative that TSC supported them and turned up.
Adrian Pawson took out the Frostbite fleet win. Well done again Adrian! Tom Parrish and Brent Jefferies got a 2nd each. It was challenging sailing with a pretty big sea state, flat light and around 14 knots that day. Well done to all our sailors who went out there
The Wooden boat Festival is coming up and we have some boats in there so make sure you go check it out. It is looking like it will be an impressive display
Auckland Wooden Boat Festival 2026
We look forward to seeing you this Sunday.
As always, 20 boats! We are consistently getting 15 and the conditions are looking good for all our sailors this weekend.
Kind regards,
Paddy