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!!
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
Lifeguards were busy at the beach 21st January 2018 with good crowds, surf, Junior Guards, Surf Bronze and Rookie training.
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!
Sunset Beach Lifeguards spent a very busy Christmas Day managing large crowds looking to cool down after a hot day with family Christmas celebrations. For some of those it meant having a day at the beach for a picnic and family day. Some with too much Christmas cheer.
4pm with tide now heading out and the lifeguards had already done 7 assists, 101 preventative actions involving 425 people. Peak head count for the day was 240 persons and lifeguards had about 100 + people in the water from around 1pm
