Hey Team - Wow our 30 year TRSC Anniversary - Heres a Quick History
The year was 1993 and everyone use to sail socially IOM's on the harbor. It was tidal so sailing times were different every week and followed the tide times. Only about a 3 hour sailing window looking straigth into the sun. (Salt Water...)
Then the developer built "The Lake". https://www.thelakestauranga.co.nz/Lifestyle/Recreation/Tauranga+Radio+Sailing+Club.html
We had no footpath, houses or trees. Just the bridge. (Gary's house was one of the 1st houses on the Lake)
We tried all the parts of the Lake and decided the most stable wind was between the Bus Stop and the Bridge with the sun behind us.
With a lot of help from the developer we built the path and left part of our Jetty over a stone drain that we use to launch off.
In 2009 we were asked to run the IOM New Zealand nationals.
We created the Tauranga Radio Sailing Club Constitution & Rules and joined the New Zealand Radio Yachting Asc.
The jetty was extended to the right and the right hand path was put in with the developers help.. When we created the TRSC we were very aware there was likely to be new classes in our club in the future, We very carefully wrote the constitution to allow for this. (not to be just the TRSC IOM club)
We ran the 2010 and 2015 IOM Nationals successfully from the Jetty. Up until the last few years were covid has required physical distancing from public were we sailed at the bus stop. We really only sailed IOM's at the Jetty. A few of us have jumped in and out of other classes like Marbleheads, EC12, Multihulls, ect... but keen coming back to the IOM's, 65's and J Class.
Over the last three year over one hundred DF65's were sold from Papamoa. August 2020, we started the 1pm Monday and 1pm Thursday DF65 sessions at the Lakes Bus Stop and the fleet has just keep growing :) Facebook DF65 NZ BOP
There has been a boom of Cant J Class boats in Waihi on Lake Gilmour Wednesday and Sunday afternoons.
This year on our 30th we have started planning, to run the IOM Nationals on our anniversary :) and we are about to launch the TRSC Facebook page to keep up with the times. Hope to see you all helping or racing in the
2023 Oct 27 – Oct 29 IOM Nationals TRSC
