Assassin Update

The New Zealand Assassin Moth fleet has grown somewhat in the last few months. We have made the most of it to work on fine tuning and refining the heavy air performance.
The new Assassin website will be up this week where spare parts can be purchased online, along with all the latest goss. We have several new upgrades available including a new tubular gantry, raised foredeck and a whole new weapon, the evolution 2 about to hit the water. It will be launched this week so watch this space.

Also check out our new Asian dealer based in Singapore - www.sailorhub.com and our European dealer based in Austria - Niki Liebscher who is doing a great job promoting the Assassin in Europe.

Assassin Moth Sailing School

Hi all

This weekend was the opening of the NZ Moth School, the only thing that wasn't organised was no one ordered the wind. Otherwise lots of people came along, with a lot of interest in what we are doing so overall a good day.
If you want to have a go on the moth phone Andrew on 027 2225159 (NZ)

Next weekend will be more exciting with some good weather forecasted. The first lesson is at 930 at Lake Pupuke.

Cheers Brownie

Rob Gough Assassin Sailing

We had the pleasure to meet Rob Gough from Tassie last week while he happened to be over in New Zealand. He had a couple of days set aside to do a bit of sailing in the Assassin along side Brownie. The first day was great and Rob proved to be very fast in the Assassin. Second day we thought we would go out in the rib and get some video footage, unfortunately the winds were not on our side and we ended up spending most of the day at the local cafe on the beachfront. It was really great to hear such positive feedback from Rob. He seemed to approve of the hopeful NZ worlds venue too....which would have been perfect if the seabreeze made it in!

Business Awards 2010- Assassin finalist

Export NZ bay of Plenty have just announced the finalists with Assassin Moth up for the emerging exporter of the year award. The awards are hotly contested by local companies, who in the recession have prospered and experienced significant growth. We are really excited about being one of only three finalists in this highly prestigious award. The other 2 finalists are Steve Bird winery and vineyards and Pollen Plus. Five judges will be around at the Assassin factory next week, with the awards ceremony held on June 25th.

Winter is here...

Unfortunately for us Kiwis winter is upon us and the dry suits have made an appearance. (for those of us who are a bit soft..) Still, plenty of mothing happening around the place as many of the kiwi sailors just can't give it up. Photos are Andrew Brown out this week on a very cold crater lake - Lake Pupuke.

Regatta Photos - 24/25 April

Some pics of the latest regatta here in NZ, more up on the website www.assassinmoth.com and video up on youtube.

Second Day of the ANZAC regatta - Takapuna NZ

The second day was unfortunately a bit of a hit and miss as sailors waited around on Takapuna Beach for the sea breeze to come. Was a beautiful day on the beach, great for a picnic...lots of sunshine....not a lot of wind. Finally around 2pm a small breeze tried very hard to come in and the decision was made to begin racing. Kevin Hall decided to spend the day with his family, so just the 3 Assassins went out. Sam Schofield with his light weight and full sail was unbeatable winning the first 2 races comfortably, followed by Andrew and Matt. With the moth fleet all low riding it wasn't as exciting as the day before, and I think the sailors were getting a little bored. The final 2 races of the day were called off and the regatta came to an end. Final results: Andrew Brown 1st, Sam Schofield 2nd, Kevin Hall 3rd and Matt Vincent 4th. All in all was a well run regatta, in arguably the best sailing waters in the world. The moths created a lot of attention, it helped having the racing quite close into shore so was easy for on the shore spectators to watch. Thank you to Takapuna Boating Club.