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10 events of 2025 – RS Feva Sail GP Inspire Program 2025

January 9, 2025

Event – RS Feva Sail GP Inspire Program 2025

Event Dates – 16-19th January 2025

Hosted by – SailGP Inspire & Royal Akarana Yacht Club

Where – Royal Akarana Yacht Club, Auckland, New Zealand

 

About the event – One hundred young sailors, from all over New Zealand, sailing 50 RS Fevas will compete in SailGP Inspire program, which is sailed in conjunction with the SailGP regatta in Auckland. The RS Feva racing will be based at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club. The class has free coaching and practice racing from Thursday, January 16, with actual racing starting on January 17 – 19 ahead of the Sail GP racing each day. In addition, the racing sailors are invited to tech tours, meet sailors, and have the opportunity to watch the racing on the big screen at the yacht club or stadium.

 

Selected Teams – Congratulations to the 50 teams chosen to compete in the RS Feva SailGP Inspire programme;

  • Holly Rosbon / Annabelle Cartwright (Maraetai SC)
  • Elisa Currie / Juliet White (Maretai SC / Wakatere BC)
  • Finloe Gaites / Sofia Turner (Murrays Bay SC)
  • Matteo Barker / Blake Batten (Murrays Bay SC)
  • Zofia Wells / Charlotte Handley (Glendowie BC / Murrays Bay SC)
  • Nathan Soper / Lauchlan Wills (Howick Sailing Club)
  • Micah Bollen / Vincent Scott (Tauranga YBC)
  • Paige McLachlan-Roberts / Chanelle Good (Bucklands Beach YC)
  • Izzy Harrison / Philippa Wiltshire (Bucklands Beach / Glendowie BC) GBC
  • Theo Kenyon / Max McKubre (Royal Akarana YC)
  • Sienna Jordan / Grace Ware (Manly SC)
  • Hugo Gimeno-Wood / Frankie Morrison (Royal Akarana YC)
  • Sebastian Corso-Fenelon / Charles Corso-Fenelon (Royal Akarana YC)
  • Taran and Samuel Francis-Stead (Murrays Bay SC)
  • Ewan Wilson /Elias Dunne (Wakatere BC)
  • Oak Galbraith / Dahlia Fyfe (Christchurch YC / Manly SC)
  • Jude Fyfe-Stafford / Honor Fyfe (Manly SC)
  • Hugh Kensington / Lewis Snape (Kohimarama YC)
  • Thomas Burrowes / Charlie Haxton (Bucklands Beach YC)
  • James Currell / George Hayton (Maraetai SC / Howick SC)
  • Thomas Linklater / Harry Strang (Tauranga YPBC)
  • Freddie Knights / Sam Harvey (Torbay SC)
  • Gemma Hebberd / Mia Meikle (Murrays Bay SC)
  • Tara Murphy / Abby Ma (Milford CC)
  • Kyla Murphy / Maya Davies (Manly SC/ Milford CC)
  • Greta Hutton / Phoebe Willis (Murrays Bay SC)
  • Sasha White / Mila Bundell (Manly SC / Charteris Bay BC)
  • Henry Meldrum / Patrick Kell (Bay Of Islands YC)
  • Alina Romanenko / Lucy Fillary (Nelson YC)
  • Jack Le Noel / Ben Keoghan (Torbay SC)
  • Sol Douwes / Oliver Tiedemann (Manly SC – Russell Coutts Sailing Foundation)
  • Mia Peters / Chloe Brahne (Manly SC)
  • Beatrix Muir / Pippa Molloy (Royal Akarana YC)
  • Megan Schussler (French Bay SC)
  • Zach Johnston / Jackson Rumbold (Royal Akarana YC)
  • Lucas and Sam Kandziora (Wakatere BC)
  • Riley Hunter / Cass Marryatt (Northcote Birkenhead YC)
  • Hazel Ashton / Olivia James (Northcote Birkenhead YC)
  • Robyn Ashton / Blake Smith (Northcote Birkenhead YC/Tauranga YPBC)
  • Mateo Machado / Hudson Gagnon (Macandrew Bay BC)
  • Gus Gillies / Noah Petersen (Wakatere BC)
  • Lauren Arnold (Kohimaramara YC) Alex Sommerville (Howick SC)
  • Valentina Gladiadis / Ruby Peters (Manly SC)
  • Sammy Evans / Hannah Evans (Manly SC)
  • Rori English / Hayden Keane (Northcote Birkenhead YC)
  • Isaac Wilson / Julia Nguyen Kohimarama YC)
  • Alex Fletcher / Pippa Fletcher (Wakatere BC)
  • Leo Faualo / Phoenix Smith (Royal Akarana YC)
  • Ally Burfoot / Tessa Clinton (Tauranga YPBC)
  • Georgia Thomson / Timothy Pone (Royal Akarana YC)

 

Find out more – Follow the New Zealand RS Feva Class for more information!

 

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