2007 / 2008 SUNBURST SOUTH ISLAND CHAMPS  

The Sunburst South Island Champs were held at Pigeon Bay Yacht Club, near Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch on December the 8 th and 9 th.

Day One of competition produced challenging conditions, with wind gusts between 20 to 25 knot northeasterly winds with 1-meter swells. The wind direction varied up to 30 degrees between gusts.

The conditions produced some exhilarating spinnaker reaches.

Day Two produced perfect sailing conditions with wind direction Northeast of 15 knots with steady direction. Shane and Daniel Smith in Tac-Tix finished 1 st after a broken rudder blade and a ripped spinnaker on the first day, with Peter Nees and Peter wood in Rek-Rap 2 nd sailing very consistently all weekend and Thomas and Alice Gee in Leviathan 3 rd.

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Sunburst Canterbury Championships were held over Canterbury Show weekend, November 16th,17th and 18th.

Graeme Hore and Joan Stevens in Windsong took out the title. Graeme last won this title 25 years ago and thoroughly deserved the win. Peter Croft and Freddie Lee in Honey finishing strongly to finish second. With Daniel Smith aged 12 and Hannes Hille aged 13 in Tac Tix sailed very concistantly to finish third.