Category: Results
2024-25 NZ Finn Summer Series
2024 Finn Canterbury Champs
2025 NZ Finn South Island Champs
2025 NZ Finn National Champs 2 – 4 March 2025
2 March and day 1 of the nationals dawned fine with light winds from the west. The “it’s never normally like this cry” echoing around the boat park as 4 sailors (including 2024 National Champion Richard Hawkins hailing from Port Chalmers YC) joined the 17 who’d contested the North Island…
2025 NZ Finn North Island Champs 28 Feb – 1 March
28 February and 17 Finns from around the country and two of our Brisbane (West Island) mates descended on the town of Waiuku for the North Island Championships. Day 1 saw the start delayed as we waited for tide and breeze to fill in. Finally, a light wind allowed for…
2024 Auckland Champs 14-15 December 2024
2022-23 Central Island Finn Regatta Picton
2022-23 Finn Masters Waiuku
2022-23 Finn Nationals Plimmerton BC
Nine diehard Finn sailors gathered at Plimmerton Boating Club (Wellington) for their North Island and National Championships held over 14-16 April. Numbers were down on previous years thanks mainly to the Cook Strait ferry woes preventing running of these regattas at their scheduled earlier dates – many of the sailors…
2022-23 Finn North Island Champs Plimmerton BC
2022-23 South Island Finn Champs
2022-23 Canterbury Finn Champs
2022-23 Auckland Finn Champs Results
2022-2023 Finn Summer Series Final Results
2022 Auckland Finn Champs Results
2022 Waiuku Finn Masters Results
2021-2022 Central Finn Champs
2021-2022 Finn Summer Series Table
2021-2022 Finn National Champs
2021-2022 Finn Auckland Champs
2021-2022 Finn South Island Champs
2021-2022 Finn Canterbury Champs
2021 NZ Finn Masters Results
2020-21 NZ Finn Summer Series Table
2021 NZ Finn Nationals
2021 South Island Finn Champs
2019-20 Finn Summer Series Results Final
2019-20 Finn South Island Champs Naval Point Club 7-8 March 2020
2019 Finn Auckland Champs Tamaki YC 16-17 November
Eight Finn sailors descended on Tamaki YC once again over the weekend of 16 & 17 November 2019, for the running of the annual Auckland Championship. Competitors coming from as far south as Wellington and Wanganui to enjoy this yacht clubs fine hospitality and excellent race management. Although small in…
2020 Finn Masters Waiuku Yacht Club 24-26 July
2020 North Island Finn Champs Waiuku Yacht Club 24-25 July
2020 Finn Nationals Worser Bay 6-8 February 2020
2019/20 NZ National Finn Championship Hosted by the recently re-built Worser Bay Boating Club over February 6-8 2020 the regatta attracted 12 entries from both North and South Islands and was held in conjunction with the OK Dinghy National contest. The fleet rapt with recently crowned Finn World Champion and…
2019 Barfoot and Thompson 2019 National Finn Championship
Day 1 dawned with overcast skies and a 10-12knt northerly with thunderstorms forecast. Once out on the course area the wind proceeded to shift progressively east making laying a true, fair beat impossible. With the appearance of dark and menacing rain clouds and a sudden 30knt easterly the fleet were…
2019 North Sails Auckland Finn Champs
Racing over the two days comprised 6 two lap windward/leeward courses races of 40 minutes duration. The course was situated between Bean Rock and the club house and raced in S/SW winds of 10-20knts, brilliant sunshine and hot summer temperatures. A feature of the racing was the large pressure variations…
2018 Auckland Finn Champs
2017-18 Finn South Island & NZ National Championship at Naval Point Club Lyttelton Report
March 10 & 11 saw eight of the North Island’s best Finn sailors make the quadrennial trek to Lyttleton to take on the ever expanding and healthy South Island fleet. The program promised to be gruelling with 15 races scheduled over 5 days to complete both regattas. Ably managed by…
2018 Finn Nationals Lyttleton
2018 South Island Champs Results
2018 Waiuku Finn Masters
2017-18 Summer Series Results
2017 North Island Finn Champs Results
2017 Canterbury Champs Results
2016-17 Summer Series Results
Final Results from the 2016-17 NZ Finn Summer Series
2016 Canterbury Champs Charteris Bay
Results from the 2016 Canterbury Champs Charteris Bay Yacht Club 10-11 December 2016
2017 South Island Champs Naval Point
Results from the 2017 South Island Champs Naval Point Club Lyttleton 25-26 February.
2016 North Island Champs Tauranga YMBC
Results from the 2016 North Island Champs at Tauranga YMBC on 8-9 October 2016
2017 Finn Masters Waiuku
Results from the 2017 Finn Masters Waiuku Yacht Club 31 March – 2 April 2017
2017 Finn Nationals Results
Results from the Finn Nationals held at Maraetai Sailing Club 10-12 March 2017
2016 Waiuku Finn Masters
Fellow Finnsters Thanks to those for making the effort to sail the CRC Masters. 13 Finns made for some exciting racing. All 8 races sailed in some tricky conditions, but the cream still came to the top. Karl sailing Secretary Rays boat won the regatta from Ian and Dirch with…
2016 NZ Finn Nationals Picture Gallery
Gallery of the 2016 New Zealand Finn Nationals held at Waiuku Yacht Club from 11 to 14 February 2016.
2016 New Zealand Finn Nationals
The 2016 New Zealand Finn Nationals were held at Waiuku Yacht Club from 11 to 14 February 2016.
2015-16 Summer Series Ranking List
2015 Auckland Finn Championships
The 2015 Auckland Finn Championships were held at Takapuna Boating Club Auckland over the 17-19 November 2015.
2015 North Island Finn Championships
The 2015 North Island Finn Championships were held at Wakatere Boating Club Auckland over the weekend 7-8 November 2015.
2015 Finn Gold Cup Results
2015 Canterbury Finn Championships
The 2015 Canterbury Championships were held at Naval Point Club Lyttelton over the weekend 23-24 October 2015.
Flashback to a Simpler Time
Historical Photos and memorabilia donated by Barry Morley. Minutes of the First NZ Finn Association Meeting
2014-15 Finn Masters Waiuku 3-5 April 2015
Another enjoyable CRC Masters regatta at Waiuku. The event ran smoothly with Bruce Morris and Kadi as the OOD’s. Many thanks to all the helpers on the water. And the ladies for the lovely meals after sailing and for keeping the Yacht club spick and span. To CRC wow what…
2015 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland
2014-15 Summer Series Ranking List Final
2014-15 Auckland Champs Takapuna 21-22 Mar 2015
Hi Fellow Finnsters. The Selection Trials are all over with 15 Finns sailing the Auckland Champs off Takapuna. A good competitive fleet sailed in 15 knots Sat and 8 plus on Sunday. N/E 15 knots saw some entertaining launchings on Sat. No more exhausting than my effort. Trying to secure…
2014-15 National Champs Lyttelton 28-30 Jan 2015
2014-15 SI Finn Champs Lyttelton 25-26 Jan 2015
2014-15 Canterbury Champs 29-30 Nov 2014
2014-15 NI Finn Champs Tauranga 18-19 Oct 2014
We had a great Nth Islands at Tauranga. A laid back OOD who was happy to accommodate what the 11 boat fleet wanted. So what did we settle on. Finns from Ch Ch and Welly were keen to finish the regatta in one session for travel reasons. A unanimous decision…
2013-14 Summer Series Ranking List
2013-14 Finn Masters Waiuku 21-23 Apr 2014
2013-14 SI Finn Champs Lyttleton 22-29 Mar 2014
2013-14 National Champs Maraetai 6-9 Feb 2014
2014-15 Waiuku Summer Series Weekend 4-5 Jan 2014
Finn Flash Wow what a weekend of sailing. 5 races with Josh Junior and a fleet of 10 boats. A warm welcome to Josh and Karl Purdie to Waiuku sailing. Sat saw us sail 3 races in 10<>15 knots with Josh taking 3 guns, but the sailing was close and…
2013-14 Auckland Champs Takapuna 7-8 Dec 2013
Day 1: Excellent sailing conditions greeted the 12 Finn sailors for the second round of the Craig Monk Summer Series, the Auckland Finn Champs held over the weekend 7-8th December. While not the sea breeze that was hoped for the Norwest winds varying between 5 and 25 knots gave the…
2013-14 Canterbury Champs 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2013
Below are the results of this year’s Canterbury Championship Regatta sailed at the Charteris Bay Yacht Club over the weekend. The NOR was for 6 races but ultimately only 5 races were completed due to very difficult sailing conditions on Saturday. Racing was scheduled to start at 12.30 on Saturday…
2013-14 NI Finn Champs Tauranga 12-13 Oct 2013
Wow, back at work after a day off to recover from the Nth Island Finn Champs. What a great venue and well run regatta. The wind was right up there, but again the cream sailors came through after some amazing races. Day one had the fleet sent home when the…
2013-14 Waiuku Winter Champs 21-22 Sep 2013
A good turnout for the winter Finn champs. Dave, Ray, Dirch, Jim, John, Gerrit, Justin, Illia, and me. Triangle courses both days with fast reaching and close uphill battles. Dave is sailing damn fast. His fitness is good as well with all the bike riding, and the motivation videos he’s…
2012-13 Finn Masters Waiuku 29-31 March 2013
Thanks to the fellow Finnsters who supported the 2013 CRC Finn Masters. A little down on previous numbers, but the same outcome, a damn good hotly contested regatta. NZL 13 joining the fleet to make up a total of 13 Finns entered Thanks to the regatta sponsors CRC and Doyles.…
2012-13 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland 1-5 Feb 2013
The popularity of this ISAF Grade 1 event continues to grow with 10 quality sailors lining up to contest this 4 day regatta. The first 2 days were sailed in 15knt easterlies in a confused seaway, the older finn sailors often dominating the first beat only to be run down…
2012-13 Auckland Finn Champs Manukau 1-2 Dec 2012
9 Finns contested a keenly fought Auckland Finn Champs on the Manukau harbour. While the numbers were lower than expected the quality was high as was demonstrated by the tightness of the racing. The Manukau Yacht Club put on a well run highly enjoyable event for the sailor with Trevor…
2012-2013 NI Finn Champs Thames 3-4 Nov 2012
The North Island Finn Champs weekend had everything, Good turnout, good wind, great racing, hard luck stories, fireworks displays, great hospitality, plenty of adult beverages and a little bit of controversy. Have to start by thanking the Thames Sailing Club team headed up by Sarah Deadman their commodore for the…
2012-13 Wellington Hurricane Classic 20-21 Oct 2012
The long range forecast for Wellington over Labour Weekend 21-22 October was always interesting reading. The closer to the weekend we got the more interesting it became. Never mind, committed now so off we go. The Wellington Hurricane Classic was the first of the 2012-13 Summer Series and a new…
2012-13 Waiuku Finn Flash 1 Oct 2012
Hi fellow Finnsters. A good turnout of boats, 11 over the weekend. Rumours’ tell me that nzl 169 will soon bless the Waiuku waters. So now with the Newport, the wooden Finn and nzl 169, 3 more Finns join the thing to do. FINN SAILING. When all the boys front…
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2024-25 NZ Finn Summer Series
2024 Finn Canterbury Champs
2025 NZ Finn South Island Champs
2025 NZ Finn National Champs 2 – 4 March 2025
2 March and day 1 of the nationals dawned fine with light winds from the west. The “it’s never normally like this cry” echoing around the boat park as 4 sailors (including 2024 National Champion Richard Hawkins hailing from Port Chalmers YC) joined the 17 who’d contested the North Island…
2025 NZ Finn North Island Champs 28 Feb – 1 March
28 February and 17 Finns from around the country and two of our Brisbane (West Island) mates descended on the town of Waiuku for the North Island Championships. Day 1 saw the start delayed as we waited for tide and breeze to fill in. Finally, a light wind allowed for…
2024 Auckland Champs 14-15 December 2024
2022-23 Central Island Finn Regatta Picton
2022-23 Finn Masters Waiuku
2022-23 Finn Nationals Plimmerton BC
Nine diehard Finn sailors gathered at Plimmerton Boating Club (Wellington) for their North Island and National Championships held over 14-16 April. Numbers were down on previous years thanks mainly to the Cook Strait ferry woes preventing running of these regattas at their scheduled earlier dates – many of the sailors…
2022-23 Finn North Island Champs Plimmerton BC
2022-23 South Island Finn Champs
2022-23 Canterbury Finn Champs
2022-23 Auckland Finn Champs Results
2022-2023 Finn Summer Series Final Results
2022 Auckland Finn Champs Results
2022 Waiuku Finn Masters Results
2021-2022 Central Finn Champs
2021-2022 Finn Summer Series Table
2021-2022 Finn National Champs
2021-2022 Finn Auckland Champs
2021-2022 Finn South Island Champs
2021-2022 Finn Canterbury Champs
2021 NZ Finn Masters Results
2020-21 NZ Finn Summer Series Table
2021 NZ Finn Nationals
2021 South Island Finn Champs
2019-20 Finn Summer Series Results Final
2019-20 Finn South Island Champs Naval Point Club 7-8 March 2020
2019 Finn Auckland Champs Tamaki YC 16-17 November
Eight Finn sailors descended on Tamaki YC once again over the weekend of 16 & 17 November 2019, for the running of the annual Auckland Championship. Competitors coming from as far south as Wellington and Wanganui to enjoy this yacht clubs fine hospitality and excellent race management. Although small in…
2020 Finn Masters Waiuku Yacht Club 24-26 July
2020 North Island Finn Champs Waiuku Yacht Club 24-25 July
2020 Finn Nationals Worser Bay 6-8 February 2020
2019/20 NZ National Finn Championship Hosted by the recently re-built Worser Bay Boating Club over February 6-8 2020 the regatta attracted 12 entries from both North and South Islands and was held in conjunction with the OK Dinghy National contest. The fleet rapt with recently crowned Finn World Champion and…
2019 Barfoot and Thompson 2019 National Finn Championship
Day 1 dawned with overcast skies and a 10-12knt northerly with thunderstorms forecast. Once out on the course area the wind proceeded to shift progressively east making laying a true, fair beat impossible. With the appearance of dark and menacing rain clouds and a sudden 30knt easterly the fleet were…
2019 North Sails Auckland Finn Champs
Racing over the two days comprised 6 two lap windward/leeward courses races of 40 minutes duration. The course was situated between Bean Rock and the club house and raced in S/SW winds of 10-20knts, brilliant sunshine and hot summer temperatures. A feature of the racing was the large pressure variations…
2018 Auckland Finn Champs
2017-18 Finn South Island & NZ National Championship at Naval Point Club Lyttelton Report
March 10 & 11 saw eight of the North Island’s best Finn sailors make the quadrennial trek to Lyttleton to take on the ever expanding and healthy South Island fleet. The program promised to be gruelling with 15 races scheduled over 5 days to complete both regattas. Ably managed by…
2018 Finn Nationals Lyttleton
2018 South Island Champs Results
2018 Waiuku Finn Masters
2017-18 Summer Series Results
2017 North Island Finn Champs Results
2017 Canterbury Champs Results
2016-17 Summer Series Results
Final Results from the 2016-17 NZ Finn Summer Series
2016 Canterbury Champs Charteris Bay
Results from the 2016 Canterbury Champs Charteris Bay Yacht Club 10-11 December 2016
2017 South Island Champs Naval Point
Results from the 2017 South Island Champs Naval Point Club Lyttleton 25-26 February.
2016 North Island Champs Tauranga YMBC
Results from the 2016 North Island Champs at Tauranga YMBC on 8-9 October 2016
2017 Finn Masters Waiuku
Results from the 2017 Finn Masters Waiuku Yacht Club 31 March – 2 April 2017
2017 Finn Nationals Results
Results from the Finn Nationals held at Maraetai Sailing Club 10-12 March 2017
2016 Waiuku Finn Masters
Fellow Finnsters Thanks to those for making the effort to sail the CRC Masters. 13 Finns made for some exciting racing. All 8 races sailed in some tricky conditions, but the cream still came to the top. Karl sailing Secretary Rays boat won the regatta from Ian and Dirch with…
2016 NZ Finn Nationals Picture Gallery
Gallery of the 2016 New Zealand Finn Nationals held at Waiuku Yacht Club from 11 to 14 February 2016.
2016 New Zealand Finn Nationals
The 2016 New Zealand Finn Nationals were held at Waiuku Yacht Club from 11 to 14 February 2016.
2015-16 Summer Series Ranking List
2015 Auckland Finn Championships
The 2015 Auckland Finn Championships were held at Takapuna Boating Club Auckland over the 17-19 November 2015.
2015 North Island Finn Championships
The 2015 North Island Finn Championships were held at Wakatere Boating Club Auckland over the weekend 7-8 November 2015.
2015 Finn Gold Cup Results
2015 Canterbury Finn Championships
The 2015 Canterbury Championships were held at Naval Point Club Lyttelton over the weekend 23-24 October 2015.
Flashback to a Simpler Time
Historical Photos and memorabilia donated by Barry Morley. Minutes of the First NZ Finn Association Meeting
2014-15 Finn Masters Waiuku 3-5 April 2015
Another enjoyable CRC Masters regatta at Waiuku. The event ran smoothly with Bruce Morris and Kadi as the OOD’s. Many thanks to all the helpers on the water. And the ladies for the lovely meals after sailing and for keeping the Yacht club spick and span. To CRC wow what…
2015 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland
2014-15 Summer Series Ranking List Final
2014-15 Auckland Champs Takapuna 21-22 Mar 2015
Hi Fellow Finnsters. The Selection Trials are all over with 15 Finns sailing the Auckland Champs off Takapuna. A good competitive fleet sailed in 15 knots Sat and 8 plus on Sunday. N/E 15 knots saw some entertaining launchings on Sat. No more exhausting than my effort. Trying to secure…
2014-15 National Champs Lyttelton 28-30 Jan 2015
2014-15 SI Finn Champs Lyttelton 25-26 Jan 2015
2014-15 Canterbury Champs 29-30 Nov 2014
2014-15 NI Finn Champs Tauranga 18-19 Oct 2014
We had a great Nth Islands at Tauranga. A laid back OOD who was happy to accommodate what the 11 boat fleet wanted. So what did we settle on. Finns from Ch Ch and Welly were keen to finish the regatta in one session for travel reasons. A unanimous decision…
2013-14 Summer Series Ranking List
2013-14 Finn Masters Waiuku 21-23 Apr 2014
2013-14 SI Finn Champs Lyttleton 22-29 Mar 2014
2013-14 National Champs Maraetai 6-9 Feb 2014
2014-15 Waiuku Summer Series Weekend 4-5 Jan 2014
Finn Flash Wow what a weekend of sailing. 5 races with Josh Junior and a fleet of 10 boats. A warm welcome to Josh and Karl Purdie to Waiuku sailing. Sat saw us sail 3 races in 10<>15 knots with Josh taking 3 guns, but the sailing was close and…
2013-14 Auckland Champs Takapuna 7-8 Dec 2013
Day 1: Excellent sailing conditions greeted the 12 Finn sailors for the second round of the Craig Monk Summer Series, the Auckland Finn Champs held over the weekend 7-8th December. While not the sea breeze that was hoped for the Norwest winds varying between 5 and 25 knots gave the…
2013-14 Canterbury Champs 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2013
Below are the results of this year’s Canterbury Championship Regatta sailed at the Charteris Bay Yacht Club over the weekend. The NOR was for 6 races but ultimately only 5 races were completed due to very difficult sailing conditions on Saturday. Racing was scheduled to start at 12.30 on Saturday…
2013-14 NI Finn Champs Tauranga 12-13 Oct 2013
Wow, back at work after a day off to recover from the Nth Island Finn Champs. What a great venue and well run regatta. The wind was right up there, but again the cream sailors came through after some amazing races. Day one had the fleet sent home when the…
2013-14 Waiuku Winter Champs 21-22 Sep 2013
A good turnout for the winter Finn champs. Dave, Ray, Dirch, Jim, John, Gerrit, Justin, Illia, and me. Triangle courses both days with fast reaching and close uphill battles. Dave is sailing damn fast. His fitness is good as well with all the bike riding, and the motivation videos he’s…
2012-13 Finn Masters Waiuku 29-31 March 2013
Thanks to the fellow Finnsters who supported the 2013 CRC Finn Masters. A little down on previous numbers, but the same outcome, a damn good hotly contested regatta. NZL 13 joining the fleet to make up a total of 13 Finns entered Thanks to the regatta sponsors CRC and Doyles.…
2012-13 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland 1-5 Feb 2013
The popularity of this ISAF Grade 1 event continues to grow with 10 quality sailors lining up to contest this 4 day regatta. The first 2 days were sailed in 15knt easterlies in a confused seaway, the older finn sailors often dominating the first beat only to be run down…
2012-13 Auckland Finn Champs Manukau 1-2 Dec 2012
9 Finns contested a keenly fought Auckland Finn Champs on the Manukau harbour. While the numbers were lower than expected the quality was high as was demonstrated by the tightness of the racing. The Manukau Yacht Club put on a well run highly enjoyable event for the sailor with Trevor…
2012-2013 NI Finn Champs Thames 3-4 Nov 2012
The North Island Finn Champs weekend had everything, Good turnout, good wind, great racing, hard luck stories, fireworks displays, great hospitality, plenty of adult beverages and a little bit of controversy. Have to start by thanking the Thames Sailing Club team headed up by Sarah Deadman their commodore for the…
2012-13 Wellington Hurricane Classic 20-21 Oct 2012
The long range forecast for Wellington over Labour Weekend 21-22 October was always interesting reading. The closer to the weekend we got the more interesting it became. Never mind, committed now so off we go. The Wellington Hurricane Classic was the first of the 2012-13 Summer Series and a new…
2012-13 Waiuku Finn Flash 1 Oct 2012
Hi fellow Finnsters. A good turnout of boats, 11 over the weekend. Rumours’ tell me that nzl 169 will soon bless the Waiuku waters. So now with the Newport, the wooden Finn and nzl 169, 3 more Finns join the thing to do. FINN SAILING. When all the boys front…