“Seeing the competitiveness this weekend has really given us the jolt we needed to get back into match racing, so we can’t wait to get back out there at the next regatta possible”.Ĭorbett’s team fended off close challenges and capitalized on opponent’s mistakes throughout the round robin racing to qualify unbeaten - including a world-class piece of match racing trapping Nick Egnot-Johnson behind the Committee Boat at the prestart and running away with the resulting, much anticipated race.
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“The quality of this fleet has come along leaps and bounds since the 2021 Harken NZMRC earlier this year, full credit to all the sailors for some challenging races throughout all 3 days” said 2021 champion and defeated finalist Sam Barnett of KNOTS Racing. The round robin racing threw up consistently competitive matchups with 2 logjams of teams in the rankings, with 6 teams battling for other 3 direct quarter final spots and 5 teams all within striking distance competing for the easier qualifying path. However, the story of this year’s regatta was the marked improvement shown by the rest NZMRC field with close duels all weekend between all the entrants. Once racing was able to commence at midday on Friday, the shifting conditions, and heavy tidal changes in the Waitemata meant the favored side of the racecourse changed from race to race in what proved to be a great test of the sailor’s tactical reading of their surroundings. This year’s NZMRC saw also fantastic work from our race committee and umpiring volunteers who were able to fit the full schedule of racing in despite losing the first day and a half of sailing with too much breeze on Thursday and not enough on Friday morning. Harken New Zealand Match Racing Championships - RNZYS - October 2022 - photo © RNZYS Media “It’s been a long time coming but I’m stoked to have finally got over the line – these battles with Nick and the KNOTS boys are always so close but really happy with the consistency of performances all weekend from our team, and especially all of the RNZYS Youth Training Programme teams” said RNZYS Sailing Manager Corbett. However, despite a mistake in race 3 sending him around the wrong offset mark and a momentum swinging KNOTS victory in race 4, this year Corbett reversed the 2021 last minute loss on the finish line to claim the title by 3 boat lengths. In a fantastic display of New Zealand’s match racing depth at the 2022 Harken New Zealand Match Racing Championship Reuben Corbett was able to claim his first national match racing title alongside his crew of Guy Pilkington, Zak Merton, and Andre Van Dam in a reverse of 2021’s final that also went the full five races.Ĭorbett had to fend off a hard charging and defending champion KNOTS Racing crew helmed by Nick Egnot-Johnson who brought a 2-0 deficit back from the brink.
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