Winter Series FOUR at Onepoto

Big Thanks to the PCKC team for hosting the event today Pania, Turi and John especially.

Finally after a few false starts over the last month we were welcomed by some glorious fine sunny weather it was both warm at the start and finish in the shelter which I believe is a must for winter paddling.


The 10 km course was a relatively straight forward course for the sit down paddlers and headed under the bridges into the Pauatahanui Inlet to the Browns Bay buoy and back.

The SUP course headed along the relative shelter of the Whitireia Park Hillside before the SUP paddlers were challenged by both wind and tide heading out the channel to the last green marker post where the Men did 6 km with the women turning earlier to complete a distance of 4 km.


Event FIVE is on August 18 and will be hosted by Chris Fox and the Hikoikoi Club at Petone.

We've included a few random snaps that both Sharlene and I took on the water.........tomorrow we'll post an awesome U-tube video that Dave McKnight took of the event today.

W6 Mens 10km

44:30 PCKC Men

Surf ski/kayak 10km

49:07 Mike Tate
49:19 Chester Burt
51:21 Andrew Carey
53:05 Paddy Urlich
53:08 Dave Ryde
56:36 Dave McKnight
56:41 Sandy Winterton
57:10 Iain Gillies
58:43 Pete Notman
60:07 Graham Daniel
DNF Harry Wingar

W1 Men 10km

51:50 Paddy Rimene
55:50 Neil O'Brien
56:20 Piki Emery
57:11 Chris Mike
57:25 Rick Ruparere
58:28 Sefo Misky
58:57 George Fa'alogo
62:11 Terry Gardiner
70:30 Willie Kappely

W1 Women 10km

56:16 Marianna Hodges
63:27 Chris Fox
64:04 Deb Blake
64:37 Raewyn Anderson
65:37 Selena Katene
66:52 Paula Napier
75:48 Alana Joe

W6 Junior Girls 10 km

66:16 PCKC Junior Girls

SUP Men 6 km

48:49 Rob Collins
48:49 Hans Wannemacher
50:15 John Toomath
54:44 Chris Brown
54:55 Brodie McGregor
56:07 Karl LeQuesne
61:12 Joe Konlechner
66:30 Aaron Boslem
78:04 Alex Dean
83:27 Karl Wannemacher


SUP Women 4 km

56:44 Lei Faletolu
56:47 Sharlene Winiata

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