Rotorua Rowing Club

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Battling it out right to the finish…Karapiro Club Regatta

Held: 30 November Venue: Lake Karapiro (2k)

THANKS ANNA RUFER FOR GREAT PHOTOS, Ann Woolliams

“The highlight from the Spring Regatta has to be Rotorua Rowing Club amassing the highest number of points” said Rotorua Rowing Club President James Boyce. ”And so far, we lead the

Karapiro Trophy.”This is a cumulative points trophy awarded at the end of the season. The Rotorua crews attended the KRI Club Regatta over the weekend which increased their points.

“Rotorua crews all performed well” said RRC Captain Glen Reichardt “and the senior boys in the U18 doubles performed exceptionally well which bodes well for a great season for them.”

“Crews battled it out right to the finish.” said Reichardt of the Morrell/Grant double and the Oxenham/Curtis double(photo above)“This is how we train and was good to see it put into practice.”

The changeable conditions made for choppy waters and slower times.“Unfortunately the regatta on the weekend was cut short due to the weather and so many did not get to row a single race.”

said RRC Captain Glen Reichardt.

Rotorua’s representative in the Waikato Regional Performance Centre; Claudia Hyde fought a strong head wind to place second in the Open Women’s Single.

RESULTS

BOYS U18 DOUBLE SCULLS

Division 1: placed 3rd (8:16.11) Crew: ROTC 1 – Conner Broughton (stroke) Andre Lelievre, Coach – Glen Reichardt

Division 2: placed 4th (8:47.40) Crew: ROTC 2 – Conner Spackman (stroke) Tom Coleman,Coach – Glen Reichardt

BOYS U18 DOUBLE SCULLS

Division 3: placed 3rd (8:40.24) Crew: ROTC 3 – Mania Oxenham (stroke)| Jonathan Curtis, Coach - Glen Reichardt

BOYS U18 DOUBLE SCULLS

Division 3: placed 2nd (8:38.45)Crew: ROTC 4 – Lewis Morrell (stroke) Bradley Grant, Coach - Glen Reichardt

GIRLS U18 COXED QUAD SCULLS

Division 2: placed 1st (8:45.45)Crew: ROTC 2 - Grace Bassett (stroke) Sofia Morrell | Lea Kreutmayer | Cassidy Wenmoth + Kirsty Lickford (cox)Coach - Alastair Riddle

Division 2: placed 5th (9:06.59)Crew: ROTC 5 - Olivia Ashby (stroke) Stacey Tamblin | Hannah Cox | Chloe Harrison + Keely Gage (cox)Coach - Chris Pearson

GIRLS U18 COXED QUAD SCULLS

Division 2: placed 9th (10:00.79)Crew: ROTC 4 – Aimee Bennett (stroke) Chelsie Thomas | Lucy Noble | Rowan Simmons + Zoe Lelievre (cox)Coach - Alastair Riddle

Division 2: placed 10th (10:13.30)Crew: ROTC 3 - Sara Whibley (stroke) Elizabeth Hughes | Hannah Bailey | Georgia Moberly + Phoebe Johnston (cox)Coach - Alastair Riddle

BOYS U16 DOUBLE SCULLS

Division 1: placed 7th (9:37.17)Crew: ROTC 1 - Ben Rufer (stroke) Hamish Schnuriger,Coach - Emma-Jane Weller

Division 2: placed 5th (10:14.64)Crew: ROTC 2 - Kobe Anthony (stroke) Cameron Bennett,Coach - Fiona Bassett

MENS CLUB SINGLE

Division 1: placed 3rd (9:24.12)ROTC 1 - Matthew Cooper,Coach - Glen Reichardt

WOMENS NOV DOUBLE SCULLS

Division 1: placed 2nd (12:09.86).Crew: ROTC 3 - Taila Marshall (stroke) Courtney Margoribanks,Coach - Paul Simmons

Division 1: placed 3rd (12:11.96)Crew: ROTC 2 - Gabrielle Gratton (stroke) Jessica Wilson,Coach - Alastair Riddle

Division 3: placed 3rd Crew: ROTC 4 - Hannah Dixon (stroke) | Maya Cuff,Coach - Paul Simmons

MENS NOV COXED QUAD SCULLS

Division 1: placed 8th (10:38.97)Crew: ROTC 2 – Gabriel Crean (stroke) Andrew MacAlister | Anton Rufer | Shamus Fraser + Ben Rufer (cox)Coach - Emma-Jane Weller

Division 3: placed 4th (10:06.08)Crew: ROTC 3 – Liam Waites (stroke) Callum August | Lexus Wharekawa | Nathan Morshead + Shelby Cuff (cox)Coach - Fiona Bassett

BOYS U18 SINGLE

Division 1: placed 4th (7:16.46)Crew: ROTC 1 – Mania Oxenham,Coach - Glen Reichardt

GIRLS U16 COXED EIGHT

Tyla Jansen Van Nieuwenhu (cox)Coach – Alastair Riddle

WOMENS NOV COXED EIGHT

Tom Waldin (cox) Coach – Alastair Riddle

ERG sponsored event

RGHS Sponsored left to right; Grace Bassett, Jessica Wilson, Gabby Grattan, Julia Edward,Kirsty Lickfold, Chelsie Thomas, Emily Cooper, Georgia Moberley

Rotorua Girls High School Rowing squad staged an ERG sponsored event over the weekend at the Holiday Inn in Rotorua.Over the 12 hours of erging the girls managed to cover 146.216 kms. Julia Edward, Rotorua’s rowing Olympian in the Women’s Lightweight Double Scull event at London, 2012, put in some time on an ERG too.A former RGHS student, Julia came from her rowing home at Karapiro, especially to support

the young RGHS crews.The new RGHS crew uniforms were sponsored by Holiday Inn and Red Stag.

Fastest boat at the regatta …KRI SPRING REGATTA

16.11.13

“It’s all pretty mixed up really – time trial and then heats based on times made for close racing, so really useful training. Standouts would be the U18 boys 8+ winning the A final, Connor and Andre, and U18

quad with Mania, Jordan and two U18 novice girls, Samantha and Gabrielle, and the U15 Boys Octuple who got significantly faster with every race during the day.”

Alastair Riddle, Head Coach

“The format of the Karapiro Spring Regatta makes it a lot of fun with the crews who entered last year wanting to enter again even in the middle of exams. With the time trial concept each crew had no idea what they would be up against.

Each crew new that no matter how they performed they would be against other rowers of the same ability, weather they be men or woman, boys or girls. The Rotorua crews took on the spirit of the regatta and tried their hardest to get

their best time to put them up the ladder as far as they could be. Some crews from other clubs just didn't get it and cruised down the course to get into a lower heat just to say they won, however I don't think they achieved

anything. The performance of all the Rotorua rowers have shown that we can look forward to an exciting season with many combinations looking good for the season to come.”

Glen Reichardt, Club Captain

Rotorua Rowing Club’s U18 Boys coxed eight oar crew of Conner McNamara-Spackman (stroke),Bradley Grant, Lewis Morrell,Tom

Coleman, Jonathan Curtis,Sean van Nieuwenhuizen,Cole Starling, Mathew Bennett and Keely Gage (cox) coached by Glen Reichardt won the overall time trial from the entire field of 127 crews in a time of 6 minutes and 23 seconds and went on to win the regatta in the A Final.

Rotorua Rowing club (RRC) crews time-trialed for their place in the heats and semi-finals at the KRI Spring Regatta in the weekend. There was a constant stream of races.

The fastest eight oars, racing alongside the fastest octuples, coxed fours, coxless fours, coxed quad sculls and coxless quads,and the fastest double sculls racing the coxless pairs and single sculls down the 2000m course.

Into its second year now Karapiro Rowing’s new Spring Regatta format is very impressive for the onlooker.The U18 Boys coxed eight oar, were a standout for Head Coach Riddle, along with the double sculls crew of Connor Broughton and Andre Le Lievre , coached by Glen Reichardt, who took 3rd in the time trial of 21 double sculls in a time of 7 minutes and 12 seconds and won their Final. The U18 mixed quad with Mania Oxenham(stroke), Jordan McNamara-Spackman , U18 novice girls; Samantha Mathews and Gabrielle Grattan and cox; Tyla Jansen van Nieuwenhuizen coached by Emma-Jane Weller, placed an impressive eight in a time of 7min 21 secs in their time trial of 47 quad scull crews. The Boys U15 Octuple crew of Liam Waites (stroke), Callum August, Cameron Bennett, Charlie Binks, Lexus Wharekawa, Kobe Anthony, Liam Franklin, Nathan Morshead and cox; Shelby Cuff, coached by Fiona Bassett, rowed significantly faster as the day progressed to win their Final.

Time trial 8 (26 crews)

OPEN COXED EIGHT OAR EVENT INCLUDES ALL AGES AND BOTH GENDERS

Time trial placed 14th (07:44)

I Final: placed 3rd

Time trial 9 (2 crews )

OPEN OCTUPLE SCULLS EVENT INCLUDES ALL AGES AND BOTH GENDERS

Time trial placed 1st (07:50)

Time trial 2 (21 crews )

OVER 15YRS DOUBLE SCULLS EVENT INCLUDES BOTH GENDERS

Time trial placed 3rd (07:12)

D Final: placed 1st Crew: ROTC 5 - Conner Broughton (stroke) | Andre Lelievre, Coach - Glen Reichardt

Time trial 1 (32 crews )

Over 16YR SINGLE SCULL EVENT INCLUDES BOTH GENDERS

Time trial placed 10th (07:54)

J Final: placed 3rd Crew: RPCW 1 - Claudia Hyde

Time trial placed 14th (08:06)

L Final: placed 1st Crew: ROTC 2 – Matthew Cooper, Coach - Glen Reichardt

Time trial 5 (47 crews )

OPEN COXED QUADRUPLE SCULLS EVENT INCLUDES ALL AGES AND BOTH GENDERS

Time trial placed 8th (07:21)

E Final: placed 5th Crew: ROTC 12 - Jordan McNamara-Spackman (stroke) | Samantha Mathews | Gabrielle Gratton | Mania Oxenham + Tyla Jansen Van Nieuwenhu (cox),Coach - Emma-Jane Weller

Time trial placed 16th (07:44)

I Final: placed 7th Crew: ROTC 8 - Cassidy Wenmoth (stroke) | Grace Bassett | Emily Cooper | Sara Whibley + Tom Waldin (cox)Coach - Alastair Riddle

OPEN COXED QUADRUPLE SCULLS EVENT INCLUDES ALL AGES

AND BOTH GENDERS

Time trial placed 27th (08:12)

M Final: placed 3rd Crew: ROTC 14 - Ariana Lee (stroke) | Alie Henderson Corporaal | Hannah Bailey | Pam Dickson + Kirsty Lickford (cox) Coach - Alastair Riddle

Time trial placed 28th (08:12)

M Final: placed 1st Crew: ROTC 11 - Gabriel Crean (stroke) | Hamish Schnuriger | Shamus Fraser | Anton Rufer + Ben Rufer (cox) Coach - Emma-Jane Weller

Time trial placed 30th (08:22)

O Final: placed 7th Crew: ROTC 9 - Aimee Bennett (stroke) | Georgia Moberly | Chelsie Thomas | Rowan Simmons + Zoe Lelievre (cox)Coach - Alastair Riddle

Time trial placed 32nd (08:52)

S Final: placed 1st Crew: ROTC 6 - Taila Marshall (stroke) | Hannah Dixon | Claudia Walsh | Maya Cuff + Nell Coughley (cox)Coach - Paul Simmons

Time trial placed 37th (09:20)

S Final: placed 4th Crew: ROTC 3 - Courtney Margoribanks (stroke) | Juliet Fordyce | Vyna Lamont | Brooke Patchell + Katie Haslam (cox)Coach - Paul Simmons

PHOTO; by ANN WOOLLIAMS 4.4.08 Velda and Max Smith at Lake Ruatanewha , Twizel for the Maadi Cup

Lake creator 'man before his time'

http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/9357871/Lake-creator-man-before-his-time

TRACY MILES 04/11/2013

Max Smith, the project engineer for the Upper Waitaki Hydroelectric Power Scheme in the 1970s, and creator of the South Island's top rowing venue, Lake Ruataniwha, near Twizel, died on 1.11.13.

A civil engineer by trade, Mr Smith went to Twizel to put into practice the National government "Think Big" policy, including a series of dams and canals across the Mackenzie Basin.

His legend lives on in the form of Lake Ruataniwha's international rowing course. Now central to rowing in New Zealand and an important sporting venue for the region, it was also the project that got him sacked.

Unknown to some of the heads of the Ministry of Works, as well as building the reservoir, Mr Smith was also turning Lake Ruataniwha into a community asset.

His daughter, Pip Sutherland, said: "Max was very pragmatic. If he decided he was going to do something, he did it."

"I think he felt that a lot of people thought the dams left nothing for the community at the end of it." So he decided to do something about that.

Mr Smith told the Timaru Herald in 2008, "it would be fair to say ... some were a little surprised."

Some of his bosses were keen to prosecute him under the Public Works Act after it came to light but in the end a compromise was met where he chose to retire. Mr Smith also had to spend two years fighting the government and his superiors to retain Twizel. His vision, 25 years later, sees a thriving town and rowing complex. Mrs Sutherland remembers the family's years at Twizel from 1970 to 1982. She said her father also made sure there were trees and picnic areas around Lakes Aviemore and Benmore.

After losing his job, he and wife Velda spent the next eight years developing their farm, Castle Hill Station. Having been born and bred in rural Waddington near Christchurch, Mr Smith was used to rural life. He had his 60th birthday at Castle Hill. After that, they bought a farm called Sandhurst at Weka Pass and later moved to a 121.4 hectare property at Waipara where he grew pinot gris and pinot noir grapes. Using a contract winemaker, the result was sold under the label Whitestone Wines. The couple retired to Amberley where he remained active until the middle of last year. He had been in Holmwood Resthome, Rangiora, since January.

Mrs Sutherland said Mr Smith was a good father and as children they had lots of camping holidays. "He was very probably a man before his time. He had great ideas, he loved young people and being able to help young people. His legacy made him a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) and earned him a Queen's Service Medal, among other awards.