SSANZ Contacts
The Short Handed Sailing Association of New Zealand (Inc.)
P.O. Box 40-550, Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand. Fax: (09) 443 0894
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President & Treasurer - Brian Murray"Mr SSANZ" Brian is the well known face of SSANZ and honorary life member. He has a strong background in shorthanded and ocean racing with highlights being crewing on well known yachts such as Fidelis, Aquila Doro, Elliott Marine (later to become Primo) and Hydroflow. Brian also extensively campaigned his own yacht "Green Hornet" in Auckland to Gisborne Races, Two handed Round North Island Race and Auckland Fiji Race before taking on his biggest challenge of a Two Handed Melbourne Osaka race. Unfortunately Green Hornet was lost at sea in atrocious conditions out from Sydney. Brian has since owned Celebrity (a Farr 11.6) and now owns Einstein (a Elliott 10m) which regularly competes in SSANZ events. Now more involved in the promotion and organisation of the Shorthanded races he loves so much, but Brian is always keen to tell a few stories over a rum...
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Phone Business 09 443 0895 Mobile 021 670 778 Email brian.ssanz@hotmail.com |
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Chairman - Cameron ThorpeCameron has a extensive sailing background of over 20 years but is probably best known as half of the Two Handed crew on the Farr 1020 Hard Labour. Hard Labour won the 2005 SSANZ Round North Island Race on ORC, 2004 and 2005 Coastal Classic Two Handed division (beating 12 fully crew 1020's in '05 to win the class prize as well !) and is always near the sharp end of the results in the SIMRAD series. Cameron helmed Hard Labour to win the Farr 1020 Nationals in 2002 and 2006. Cameron has twice been on the winning crew of the New Zealand National Keelboat Champs and also races the Etchells "The Boat" achieving a top 10 performance in the 2002 worlds. As Chairman Cameron wants to see the continued growth of shorthanded sailing and see more boats out on the water...
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Phone Business 09 529 3363 Mobile 021 226 7662 Email thorpecameron@xtra.co.nz |
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Vice Chairman - Steve AshleySteve Ashley has been there and done it all. Steve loves a challenge and has competed in 4 Round North Island Races, 1 Round New Zealand Race (finishing 1st overall on handicap) as well as the infamous '79 Fastnet race. Steve isn't a huge fan of todays shorter races demanded by our busy lives and would love to see the return of "real races" for "real men (and women)" and really put the challenge back into sailing. As such Steve is a huge fan of SSANZ's Round North Island Races and believes it to be the best race in New Zealand bar none ! If you ever find yourself in a great deal of trouble, there is a good chance Steve could be dropped in by helicopter to help you out and get the boat home. Steve was involved with the following well known rescues : 1994 Westpac Helicopter Rescue of "Mighty Merry Too" off northern NZ 1997 Westpac Helicopter Rescue of "Sanur" off northern east coast of NZ 2002 Westpac Helicopter Rescue of "Karewa" 60 miles off Manukau Heads Certified RYA DTp and MOT Yachtmaster Offshore, RNZCGF Yachtmaster Ocean, NZRFS Restricted Radio Operator Certified, it's hard to think of a better man to come to your aid. Steve is a professional yacht rigger with his own business The Rigging Shop based in Westhaven. Steve is a honorary life member of SSANZ and has made a huge contribution. He is often the last person left recording finishers and making sure everyone is safe.
Contact Details
Phone Business 09 309 6519 Mobile 027 477 7969 Email steve@riggingshop.co.nz |
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Committee - Dougall LoveDougall started sailing P Class when he was about 10 years old in Akaroa Harbour but didn't really start sailing keelboats until living in Lyttelton in the early 1980's. This and several deliveries to and from Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Tahiti and the Pacific Islands gave him a love of longhaul and offshore sailing which has continued since moving to Auckland in 1987. Together with his brother-in-law he purchased the Young 88 Paddy Wagon in 1988. Sailing this well was a big learning curve, much of it done on the SSANZ two handed races of the day - the Barrier 250, the White Island race, the Berrocca Barrier series, etc. In 1996 Dougall competed in the Round North Island 2 Handed Race with good sailing mate Pete Jordan aboard Paddy Wagon. This was a great race but a long way on a Young 88! Since the RNI sailing was interupted by a couple of years living in Europe and various business committments. The time living in Europe introduced the IMOCA Open and the Mini Transat boats which still remain an interest. Since returning to NZ, business and family committments have limited sailing to Wednesday night racing and some SIMRAD series sailing when the Frenzy was still in Auckland. It is Dougall's intention to continue short handed sailing in particular and plans to own his own boat for this purpose in due course. In the mean time it's likely Dougall will continue to fire the start gun and take your finish times in the wee hours of the morning
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Committee - Steve BartonSteve is one of yachting's quiet achievers heavily involved with both helping organise and run events and campaigning his own yacht "Hard Labour"a Farr 1020. Steve has encouraged and assisted many young sailors enter keelboat sailing some of whom have gone on to compete in America's Cup and Volvo Teams. In Steve's ownership Hard Labour has become a 6 time National Champion and set the standard for the Farr 1020 class. Steve has also raced Hard Labour in many Two Handed races highlights being 1st ORC 2005 Round North Island Race, 1st Two Handed Crew 2004 and 2005 HSBC Coastal Classic and Advance Trident Trophy for shortest aggregate time 2004 SIMRAD Series Shorthaul Division. Steve has twice been a winning crew member of the NZ National Keelboat Champs and is a keen Etchells sailor who loves the chance to compete against Rockstars like Dennis Conner (especially when he beats them! -ed).
Contact Details
Phone Business 09 529 3357 Mobile 021 976 797 Email stevebarton@xtra.co.nz |
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Committee - Dave MasonDave started in trailer yachts after a lifetime with power boats. He was once a boat builder for Mason Marine (family firm) building Clippers, and quite involved in power boat racing when milk was 4c a pint and petrol was 42c a gallon ! Dave won the National and Auckland Trailer Yacht Champs in 1988 and then moved on to the Young 88 class. Dave has owned several Young 88s achieving 2,5,7,9,1,4,2,5 on line in the Nationals. He won the Nationals with "Undercover" in 2001. Dave then moved on to "Frenzy" a Lambert 35 in which he scored a few good results in the SIMRAD series before the real challenge of the 2002 Two Handed Round North Island where "Frenzy" finished 3rd in division. Dave's experience with his company Brandgroup in advertising, publicity and brand building has proved invaluable to SSANZ. Dave is our creative genius and has inspired a huge lift in the presentation for our races and website.
Contact Details
Phone Mobile 021 905 302 Email dave@brandgroup.co.nz |
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Committee - Philip HartPhilip is well known to many as the owner of the iconic pink catamaran "Sundreamer", musician at numerous prizegivings and prolific poster on crew.org. His sailing background starts almost 40 years ago in the Waikato sailing dinghies and trailer yachts and finally keelboats and multihulls. Philip has been a flag officer of 5 sailing clubs and associations as well as race administrator for numerous regattas. Given the right conditions Sundreamer is never far from the front of the fleet and has enjoyed numerous race wins in Coastal, Tauranga and SSANZ as well as still holding a couple of race records.
In 2001 and following years Sundreamer restarted multihull involvement in the SSANZ series and despite being the only participant on occasions persisted and managed to get a few more along over the years. Multihulls are ideally suited to short handed sailing and more are being encouraged to take part. Last year we had over 10 turn up for individual SSANZ races and we hope to have more participate in the whole series this year.
Contact Details
Phone Business 0800 021 494 Email philip@sundreamer.co.nz |
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Committee - Jon HenryJon started sailing dinghy's at the age of about 10 and over the past 35 years he has sailed and raced in Dinghies, Trailer Yachts and more recently owned a Carpenter 29 before his current yacht a Beale 11.6 "Danaide" in which he has sailed more than 5000nm in over the last 6 years, a lot of these miles two handed including the 2008 RNI which he was 2nd in Div on PHRF and 1st overall on ORC. He has also done offshore races and deliveries including the 2005 Auckland to Fiji as watch leader on the Farr 1104 "Hot Shot" which is owned by his two handed crew Paddy Greene. He joins the committee as he wishes to put something back into shorthanded sailing. |
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