National title to MillarGISBORNE’s Peter Millar combined with two Napier sailors to win the Noelex 25 national championship on the Ahuriri waterfront yesterday.
Millar’s regular crew of Colin Shanks was racing at another regatta so he joined forces with Barry Coulam and Nigel Stilwell on Coulam’s eight-metre trailer boat Sure
Thing, and it proved a winning combination.
In light winds, Millar and his crew won four races, had three seconds and two fourths in the nine-race series featuring a fleet of 14.
It was their first time racing together. Miller was helping out at a regatta in Hawke’s Bay over the new year when he discovered Coulam needed a crew member. Several emails later, it was all go.
Jetsprinters secondGISBORNE couple Blake Briant and Kate Hoogerbrug made the podium in round 2 of the New Zealand jet sprint championships in Meremere on Sunday.
