Stone Store Stand-Up

Fabulous Christmas santa parade at the Stone Store Stand-Up last night, great to see so many Santa SUPs on the water! Happy Christmas and happy paddling, everyone

And here are some of our awesome women and youth racers in action.

Some more great performances from our Kerikeri and Kaitaia locals at the 2023 SUP Triple Crown this year. Here are a few pix of our local men's athletes in the thick of the action. Check out the Far North SUP tour page for all the results and a whole lot more pix.

Some fantastic results for our Kororipo Paddlers at the 2023 National SUP Racing Championships!

Ben Godwin and Paul Wright, first and second overall in the Mens challenger series, based on combined results from sprints, technical and distance racing. Paul won the mens sprints outright, Ben won the 8k distance race outright.

Jana Godwin: 2nd overall in the women's challenger series, outright winner in the technical racing. 1st U16 overall.

Lilli-rose Voakes: 3rd overall in the women's challenger series, outright winner in the 4km distance race. 2nd U16 overall.

Taylor Wright: 8th overall in the women's fleet, 1st U14.

Nicholas Louw: 9th overall in the men's fleet, 1st U14, 2nd U16.

These results deserve special credit seeing as none of the youngsters had ever even experienced the extremely difficult wind and water conditions that the championships gave us, let alone been able to train in it. Awesome effort!

The event was a huge amount of fun despite the challenging conditions, and we'll be looking to take an even bigger team down next year. You don't have to be a highly tuned athlete to compete in the event, and there are separate prizes and medals for every age group, including O40s, O50s, O60s and O70s. If you fancy giving it a go, come and join our Thursday night paddling sessions and we'll get you up to speed!

FREE paddleboarding safety workshop, Kerikeri Cruising Club, 6.30pm Monday 20 February. Presented by the NZ SUP National Safety Officer, this is an indoor session, an informal chat tailored to suit the group, which will cover in plenty of detail the essential aspects of SUP safety, equipment choices for the conditions and how to use it, understanding the conditions, how to read them, what you need to know and think about, and what might go wrong and what to do about it. You'll get chance to handle, check out and try on out the various safety equipment options You'll learn loads, and get a whole lot out of it. We should have enough time for chat about other aspects of SUP as well, again, based on what the group is interested in discussing. The session will last a couple of hours.

Please note that there are no refreshments at the venue (the bar is closed!), so please bring your own if you need a drink or snack to keep you going.

Any questions, call Bill on 027 777 1035

Our weekly club session is thriving! Over 20 paddlers on the water last night, with a fairly even split between the cruisers and the racers. And another very enjoyable social session afterwards, enjoying the excellent food and drinks from the Plough and Feather. Loving those warm light evenings!

If you fancy coming along, here's all the info you need
http://northlandpaddleboarding.co.nz/paddle-club/

Some great pix here of the Triple Crown in our beautiful Bay of Islands! You can read SUPworld and 1000 other titles for free ( along with 1000’s of books) on the Libby App, you just need a local library card (free and a 5 min visit to your local library) to set it up. Works like your local library only electronic.

Some great coverage of the SUP Triple Crown and the Northland Schools SUP championships in this month's SUPWORLD Magazine! (Issue 49, available online here
https://www.supworldmagazine.com/home-west

Congratulations to Kororipo Paddlers Mike Ward and Shirley Dryden for some great results in the 2022 Triple Crown! Shirley took 2nd in the Technical Racing today, and 3rd overall for the series. Mike Ward followed his excellent 4th place yesterday with a 6th overall in the technical to leave him 6th overall for the series, and 4th in the mens U55 category, just missing out on a podium position. Great job people!

Full results at supnorth.nz/overall-results-and-placings/

Superb effort by our local paddler Mike Ward to finish 4th overall in this extremely tough race!