It was a great start to the sailing season for Westlake Girls after the top crew won the Girls’ title of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Keelboat Championship at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron on Sunday, 16 March for the second year in a row.
Led by Captain Jess Handley, the WGHS Sailing team entered two teams into the Keelboat Nationals, with WGHS Black team competing in the Gold fleet against the best schools in the country and the WGHS Red finishing 3rd in the Silver fleet.
Next, the sailors moved from the 7-metre-long Elliott boats with five crew to the two-handed 4-metre 420 dinghies in the Auckland Secondary Schools Team Racing Championship at Royal Akarana Yacht Club the following week.
