Tornado Class New Zealand

Tauranga Moana turning it on for the 2026 Tornado nationals
Massive thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for making it a great event.
With a bit of everything over the 3 days the teams were well tested . Especially on Saturday with a 1.5m swell and jobbly chop with 13-18kts - lead to some good downwind sendies. 🤙
( and also some repairs in the boat yard, impressive we kept them all upright )

Congrats to Dave and Suzanne Shaw lining up a picket fence and taking the rest of us to school. Winston and Shanae closed out silver with the last race . Wayne and Sally taking home the bronze .

Great fun an camaraderie all round.
Stand by for an upcoming announcement on next years venue.

2026 Tornado nationals are upon us
Practice racing gets underway this afternoon
And points scoring races Friday 27th - Sunday 1st

Have ya coffee in hand and rearing to go for Briefing in the Typbc boat park at 0930 Friday 27/2/2026

Sailing instructions can be found here

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ic3kU6Oy9urbj5EZaI-Kl_-MOyWr5ea2

Lunch orders available : see email to competitors

🤞 for the lovely February sea breeze conditions around the Tauranga Moana

Photo credit : Vanessa Kaye 👌📸

Many many giggles last weekend during the Matakana Raid
A very social event with some tight tactical battles on the water.

The tornados had a great moment on the race back Sunday , ripping thru the narrow middle channel under genaker all within 20m of each other.

Big thanks to all that helped organise and support. A smooth operation all round 🤙

Looking forward to seeing more of you geared up and launched next year

Counting down to the Matakana raid !
There’s still time to get involved.

Kicking off next Friday March 21 with the ‘ice cream race’ 1500

What’s an ice cream race you ask?
Well it’s many giggles -
Le Mans start from Typbc’s flag pole race over to the back of the iconic Mauao to devour an ice cream on pilot bay beach before racing to panepane wharf .
Each crew must relay to jump off and swim / doggy paddle to the boat before racing back to the club flag pole 🤙

Pizzas and refreshments Friday night welcome function. Very social

Saturday we send it up harbour to Omokoroa beach
For lunch / hydration 😉
Then race up to the most welcoming Athenree camp ground. Event Bbq and social event with much banter during the annual quiz.
The theme this year is dress up as ya boat name. There’s some goodies in there. 😜

Big team breakfast Sunday morning before the race back to typbc for casual prizeo and debrief .

Looking forward to lot bringing the belly laughs and banter again.
See ya next week

And get your mates to pull those cats out of the back yard.
Fun family friendly sailing weekend they don’t know what they’re missing out on.

Register here:

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Full fizz on for the next event in the Calendar for the NZ fleet

The Matakana Raid ! 🤙

Kicking off Friday March 21 with the ice cream race 1400

Then the trip up harbour Saturday to the very welcoming Athenree camp ground for bbq and an sweet evening social event

Racing back to the TYPBC sundee

Open to all multis
Hobies
Tornadoes
8.5’s
Or bring what you have

Register here -

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Or get in touch for a chat
Si’s and more info to come

Thank you to "Phil Mad about Travel" and Justin Mitchell for taking such excellent photos over the three days. Also some great contributions from some of the sailors, Stuart MacKinven and Aaron Duncan Racing

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fmd3YisaA8uBgjwu7

A big Thank you! to the Milford Cruising Club for hosting our National Champs this year along side of the A Class National Champs. It was a great event and well run both on and off the water. We appreciate all the donated time by volunteers to make this event happen.

Winners are griners

Congratulations to Winston and Shanae for taking out the 2025 NZ Tornado nationals onboard the good ship Thundercat 🎉 🏆

In some very testing conditions- a bit of everything from light tricky shifty sou wester to full narm off wind against tide survival mode.

Very tight racing with the result coming down to a tie break on count back

Wayne and Dave on Vmg coming in 2nd on count back 🤦🏼‍♂️

And the shoot two thill came in 3rd Jimi and Stu stocked to be involved 🤪

Thanks so much to Milford Cruising Club and NZ Multihull Yacht club and all the race committee and volunteers
Very slick event

Big ups to all the competitors and the A class fleet awesome regatta at a sweet venue
Great people all of ya - and great banter too 👍

The Mercury Bay Boat Club put on another fantastic Double trouble event. Thundercat taking out the honors this time in the Big boat division. Well done to the organisers and volunteers. Lets get a big fleet there next time.