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After completion of all ten races the overall winner of the 2016 New Zealand National Keel Boat Championships was Andy Maloney who previous crew for Emirates Team New Zealand in the 2013 Red Bull Youth Americas Cup, 2013 New Zealand Laser National Champion along with competing in many other prestigious events and now the 2016 New Zealand National Keel Boat Champion with crew Jimmy Maloney, Michael Cate, Adam Loke, Tom Bentham and Sam Meech.
2016 New Zealand National Keel Boat Champion Andy Maloney and his crew
In second place we have Leonard Fry a current Lion Foundation Youth Training Program skipper. Leonard had a good day today taking out a few top podium placings, Leonard’s crew was made up of Coach Laurie Jury (Main) a previous winner of the event, and graduate of the program, Ibuki Koizumi (Trim), Matt Kelly (Bow), Jacob Willis (Pit) and Charlotte Porter (Mast)
Leonard Fry the 2016 New Zealand National Keel Boat Championships Runner Up
In 3rd place overall we have Youth Training Program skipper Matthew Hughes with on board coach Guy Pilkington, Matthew had a pretty good day out on the water today he was consistently in the top half of the fleet and also got a 1st in Race 3 today. In 4th place overall we have Brad Hooker, Brad had a pretty good regatta and he came out of it with a few podium finishes. In 5th place overall we have Matthew Kempkers from the Youth Training Program, Matthew Kempkers was the only Youth Training Program boat out on the water without a coach on board. In 6th place overall we have Matthew Bouzaid who had a good day staying mostly in the top half of the fleet, in 7th place overall we have Melinda Henshaw who was the only female skipper at the regatta, In 8th place overall we have Andrew Wilison who had a relatively green crew but still enjoyed the event on a whole.
We thank all of the competitors for making this such a great event we also whole heartly thank the On Water Race Management Team and Umpire Team of Colin Lucas, Dennis Heath, Hans Koerselman, Ray Nixon, Bernie Nixon, Stuart Heine, Peter Mackenzie, Graeme Dagg, Mike Alison, Angus Mckenzie and all of the Youth Training Programme Kids that gave up their time to make this event possible.
