SUNDAY MORNING CRUISE: The competitors in the June race of the 2016 Winter Series head out onto the Whanganui River yesterday morning.PHOTOS/STUART MUNRO
SUNDAY MORNING CRUISE: The competitors in the June race of the 2016 Winter Series head out onto the Whanganui River yesterday morning.PHOTOS/STUART MUNRO
AN ENTRY list of 50 craft made for the biggest field ever for the Wanganui Rowing Association's Winter Series yesterday morning.
With 14 more entries than the May edition of the race, there were 18 kayaks, two waka ama and 30 rowing boats of various sizes which entered the 6kmdistance.
The strong kayaking turnout is likely due to the promotion with Whanganui Kayak Club, where anyone who enters four series events along with the Whanganui River Challenge this October will go into the draw for a big prize package.
The placings of the Winter Series are decided by prognostic time - where each boat tries to reach the highest percentage possible of the world record time for their specific class.
Aramoho-Wanganui Rowing Club's Trevor Rush and Richard Brock in their MGM2x boat were able to make a point with their victory - as their 26m 5s time was the highest prognostic percentage at 84.35 per cent.
Rush and Brock had also won the May race, but were disqualified for going outside the buoyed course on a Sunday where there were a lot of floating logs to avoid.
Runnersup for the second race in a row were Whanganui Kayaking Club's husband-and-wife mixed masters team of Robyn and Brian Scott, with their 29m 56s time being 83.18 per cent of prognostic.
In a family twist, Trevor Rush got to finish well ahead of his own daughters Steph and Jacs Rush in their MCW2x, while Robyn Scott beat her children Cambell and Erica Tanner - a New Zealand age group representative - who were racing with different partners in their own craft.
