Sunset Beach Champions - BP Surf Life Saving North Island IRB Championships - Waipu Cove

Extremely wet conditions were what faced the competitors at Waipu Cove for the BP Surf Live Saving North Island IRB Championships. The rain was relentless and heavy through to about 2pm when we had some break in the weather… it didn’t stop the racing in these testing conditions. Sunset Beach had 10 teams competing and all teams performed well to add points to the 139 total to put Sunset Beach in 1st place, 50 points ahead of East End on 89 points.
Class Act! Taylor Shrimpton and Jemima Ferrier were unbeatable today with 5 gold medals. Other notable performances were Senior Mens - Shane and Mark Edwards who were on the podium for all of their races with 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. U22 Mens – Judd Redmond and Anton Baptist raced extremely well for 1 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medal.
Sunset Beach Lifeguard Service were proud of the performance of our teams for what was a long hard day at the beach and retaining the title for the 3rd year running – Top Club, North Island IRB Championships.

Sunset Beach Lifeguards - 2018 BP Surf Life Saving North Island IRB Champions - Top Club

Taylor Shrimpton and Jemima Ferrier were unbeatable with 5 gold medals - Open Women's

Sunset Beach wins Surf Boat Series at North Island Surf Boat Championships - Waihi Beach 3rd February 2018

Sunset Beach Surf Boat crews could only stand and watch as the huge surf at Waihi Beach was relentless. The only crews to race were the open men's and much later in the day, one final race for 7 women's crews. Yes, they were disappointed but we're happy they're all safe and unharmed. Series medals were decided on points from the last 3 series. Congratulations to 'The Young Guns', Gold medal for winning the U23 Men's Surf Boat Series. Congrats also to the Sunset Hipsters who take out Silver Medal in the U19 Men's.  It will be back to the beach Sunday for the Sunset Young Guns who will be representing Northern Region in the Surf Life Saving NZ Regional Surf Boat Challenge. Surf is predicted to be better. Whew!!

2018 New Zealand Representative Challenge - Mt Maunganui 29th January

Sunset Beach Lifeguards had 3 teams competing in the NZ Representative Challenge. Shane and Mark Edwards, Hogan Shrimpton in the Open Mens IRB race. Taylor Shrimpton, Jemima Ferrier in the Open Womens for Northern Region. Robbie Shrimpton and Samantha-Jane Harding, Hannah Simpson (Patient) for Gisborne. Lola Key was also patient for the Northern Region Teams. All teams scored good points for their regions on this hot.. hot.. day at Mt Maunganui. It was a great change to test our skills against the other regions coming up to North Island Champs. The Canoe racing also shared our arena and these are photos of the Northern Regions Teams. Well done Sunset in large testing surf. Was not easy racing... Northern Region won the Silver Medal being piped by Bay Of Plenty by a couple of points. Here is the link to the results:http://liveresults.co.nz/138/schedule/index/2018-01-29

Sunset Beach Rookie training

Lifeguards were busy at the beach 21st January 2018 with good crowds, surf, Junior Guards, Surf Bronze and Rookie training.

Northern Region IRB Championships – Ruakaka 13th January 2018

Sunset Beach had 9 teams competing at the Northern Region IRB Championships today.  The racing was fast and furious with a lot of the races being straight finals except for the U22 Men’s Races.  Sunset Beach retained their Top Northern Region Title with 77 points, 55 points clear of 2nd place Mairangi Bay on 22 points.

Sunset Beach’s Senior Men’s teams were the best performers on the day.  The Edwards brothers, Shane and Mark won 4 gold medals, chased hard by Lewis Powell and Hogan Shrimpton.  They then combined to win the Open Teams race.  In the women’s, Taylor Shrimpton and Jemima Ferrier had some close racing with the St Clair team but were the winners with 3 gold and a silver.

Judd Redmond and Jhett Hunt earned themselves 3 gold medals in the U22 Men’s,  hottly contested by the Mairangi Bay crews.

Here is a link to the official Results: http://lifesaving.org.nz/media/515531/Results-NR-IRB-Champs.pdf

Thanks to the Sunset Beach patients and Sunset Beach Officials who had a very busy day keeping up with all these teams.  A very successful event and great results.  Congratulations to all!