2011 Winner Olivia Powrie & crew

New Zealand Women's Match Racing Championships

The 2012 event was to be held from Thursday 1 - Sunday 4 March.  This event has now been cancelled due to a lack of entries.

2011 Report: Olivia Powrie and crew saved their best for last winning the finals 3 – nil over Stephanie Hazard.  The two were certainly very evenly matched and the racing in the finals series was action packed with the lead changing in each race.

Powrie and her crew won the first race by 11 seconds and the second by 1 minutes and 21 seconds, then it was down to race three in a must win for Hazard. View full press release here

2011 Final results
1st Olivia Powrie, RNZYS
2nd Stephanie Hazard, RNZYS
3rd Samantha Osborne, RNZYS
4th Jessica McDowell, RNZYS
5th Danielle Bowater, RNZYS Lion Foundation Youth Training Programme

View full results here

History of the Event

The New Zealand Womens Match Racing Championships have been held at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron since 2000 when Amy Waring representing the RNZYS was the first winner and received the Leith Mossman Memorial.

Honours Board of past champions

Leith Mossman - an inspiration to us all!

Leith Mossman packed more into her 45 years than most of us would in a lifetime.  An avid sailor, she races on many yachts in Auckland, including Krasna (Townsen 36), The V Team (Farr 1020), Rhythm (S&S 45) to Fiji, Brighstone - Sydney-Hobart, Share Delight and Waiwera Naturally Hot (Mumm 30). Leith was alsways full of enthusiam and fun, whether racing with the boys, with the girls, match racing, fleet racing or offshore - an inspiration to us all.  Unfortunately she lost her battle with breast cancer in 1998.

The Leith Mossman Memorial tray was donated to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron by the New Zealand Womens Yachting Trust in 2000 in memory of our friend Leith.  The Trophy is the principal prize for the annual New Zealand Womens Match Racing Championships held by the RNZYS.