Sunset Beach IRB Teams - Retain title at Northern Region Champs at Waipu Cove

Sunset Beach Lifeguards have won the Northern Region IRB (Inflatable Rescue Boat) top club title for the 4th year in a row.

A team of lifeguards from Sunset Beach travelled to Waipu Cove for the Northern Region IRB Championships.  There were two open men’s teams and two women’s teams.  There were five other clubs from the region competing.

The women’s team of Taylor and Robbie Shrimpton, won all of the women’s events, Tube, Mass, Assembly and Single Rescues.  The B team, Nikayla Poole and Jazz Craddock, came third in the Tube and Assembly Rescue.

The open men’s A team, Shane and Mark Edwards, won the Assembly Rescue and came second in the Mass and Single Rescue.  The men’s B team, Lewis Powell and Hogan Shrimpton, won the Single Rescue, came second in the Assembly rescue and third in the Tube Rescue.

The club A team, Shane and Mark Edwards, Lewis Powell and Hogan Shrimpton, also won the Opens team’s event with the B team, Taylor and Robbie Shrimpton, Nikayla Poole and Jazz Craddock coming third.

The club were also supported by wonderful patients, Izzy Lempriere, Gaby Marshall, Jacob Pullen, Robert Graham, Jhett Hunt, Judd Redmond, Lola Key and Anton Baptist.

The team would like to thank their team officials, Robert Key, David Craddock and Julie Roulston, and all of the supporters who came to watch.

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The next event is the North Island Championships at Waipu Cove on the 13th February.

Overall club points
1st Sunset Beach - 48
2nd Bethells Beach - 24
3rd United North Piha - 12
4th Omaha - 6
5th Mairangi Bay - 3
6th Kariotahi - 0

Sunset Beach U19 Surf Boat Crews - Doing well on the points table

Two Sunset Beach U19 crews travelled to the Whangamata Classic to compete in stormy conditions and Red Beach for the Owen Chapman Competition.  

The Sunset Young Guns had a second overall for the Surf Boat Series as follows: U19 Men: Surf Boat Series. Titahl Bay SLSC (Darryn Stapleton, Callum Watter-Pointer, Sam Findlater, J’Adoube Elkington, Kyle Lang) 1, Sunset LS (Carl Morgan, Jack Morgan, Ryan Brash, Jack Boulton, Sam Hughes, Ted Marsh) 2, Piha SLSC (Benji Lines, Finna McIntyre, Kaveen Hanthi, Joseph Jacob, Mark Bourneville) 3. 

The Sunset Young Guns are leading the U19 Boat Series points table after 2 rounds with two to go and the Sunset Hipsters are 4th.  Next two series as follows:
Round 3 - North Island Boat Champs 6th - 7th February at Waihi Beach
Round 4 - Piha Big Wave 27/2/2016 - Piha

Come along and support our teams!

Click on this link to go to see video with our team in action at the Whangamata Classic: www.stuff.co.nz/.../wild-surf-produces-dramatic-whangamata-surf-boat- spectacular

IRB Event 0maha Beach 15th November 2015

Fun day of practice at Omaha beach. Lots of hard work, training and getting back into racing for the summer. Sunset, Omaha and Bethells.... where was everyone else?

Sunset sent 4 teams as University and School Exams took priority for some so wish you all well..

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Sunset Beach Lifeguards receive awards at the NZ Surf Lifesaving Awards of Excellence

Sunset Beach Lifeguards travelled to Wellington on the weekend to the NZ Surf Lifesaving Awards of Excellence.

Stuart Keven was awarded has 50 year badge, proud moment for Sunset, big thank you to Stuart for putting in all those years of service to our community, surf patrols and surf boats. "In it for Life" is the surf lifesaving motto and Stuart has certainly achieved that.

Janine Ibbs (32 years service) joining the club in 1973 and Glennys Smith (35 years service) who joined the club in 1979 were awarded NZ Surf Lifesaving Service Awards.

Malcolm Beattie was in the running for Volunteer of the Year. He certainly had all our votes but not to be on the night... it's tough out there so many well deserving candidates! Great night.. and all well deserved.

Clean Sweep for Sunset Beach Lifeguards at 90 Mile Beach IRB Challenge

Four teams from Sunset Beach Lifeguard Service competed in the 90 Mile Classic IRB (Inflatable Rescue Boat) Challenge.  They took out all of the major prices, Overall Winner, Fastest Women’s crew and Top Club.

The 90 Mile Classic IRB Challenge is the endurance event for IRB racing.  The race starts at Scott’s Point at the top of 90 Mile Beach, finishing at Ahipara at the bottom.  The crew’s consisting of three lifeguards, leave Scott’s point travelling south, parallel to the shore and within the surf break, completing 4 challenges along the way.

The first challenge is to go around Matapia Island, but due to large surf on the day this challenge was cancelled and the competitors travelled to the 2nd Challenge.  Here they carry the IRB’s across The Bluff, approximately 250 metres.  They also have to re fuel.

Travelling 30km to the third challenge, two crew members ran 2km’s up Huketere Hill.  The third member refuels.  They then travel 15km to the fourth challenge, where they take the motor off the boat and carry round a flag 100m up the beach, back to the boat, re fuelling and then travelling 15km to the finish.

Results:
1st – Shane Edwards, Mark Edwards and Hogan Shrimpton – Time 2:40:53
3rd – Bryce Nichol, Lewis Powell, Leith McGill – Sponsored by 0800 Bricky – Time 2:44:56
11th – Finbar Culley, Anton Baptist, Jacob Waldegrave – Time 3:01:52
18th – Taylor Shrimpton, Robbie Shrimpton, Grace Poole – Time 3:18:09 (Fastest Women’s Crew)

Top 10 Club Points
Sunset 346, Papmoa 199, Waimarama 149, Bethells Beach 144, Paekakariki 119, Muriwai 109, NPOB 102, Worser Bay 76, Palmerston North 73, Omaha 50.

Sunset Beach also hosted a crew from Australia, North Burleigh, who had hosted Sunset when they competed at the Australian IRB Nationals earlier in the year.  They did really well for their first attempt at the challenge, coming 4th in a time of 2:47:0

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