Kiwi Team Racing, Reuben Corbett, Jordan Stevenson, George Angus, Maeve White, Mason Mulcahy, Luis Schneider, Oliver Lloyd, and Zoe Dawson, have secured second place at the 2025 Team Racing World Championship after an impressive four days of racing.

The overall winners were Corinthian Yacht Club with Baltimore SC in third.

Kiwi Team Racing. ©Paul Todd/OUTSIDEIMAGES.COM

Kiwi Team Racing provided us with this run down of the event:

“The final stages of the regatta got disrupted due to strong winds. Round robin 2 could not be fully completed and so only 80% of the round robin was counted.

After the two round robins we were clear second place.

The intention was to then have the top six team race in another round robin (all race wins and losses still counting). If time allowed they would then do a top two first to three.

We unfortunately lost the first race of the top 6 round robin to the British (West Kirby Hawkes).

Team member Oliver Lloyd semi-dislocated his knee mid race but managed to get it back into place and strap for rest of the day. We then raced Corinthian Yacht Club, the first of three American team, winning that race (who ended up being the world champs), meaning every race during the event against world champs we never lost.

Our second race was a bit more interesting racing New York Yacht Club. You can see in the video above Jordy’s teams mast hooked with another teams in a dog fight finish and unfortunately broke a rig meaning we then not only lost that race but were docked a point.

The last two races of the top 6 round robin we won, finally beating the Irish (Baltimore SC) and again beating the Newport Harbour Team. There was no time for top two race, which meant the Corinthian team were clear champions.

However a four way tie 2-4 was to be broken.

We came off the water thinking we were 4th. Not one team was sure how the tie break would be finislised. Taking into account all the races from the series. It was not until our names were called that we realised we had come second!

The team is very happy to have achieved what we did after never racing in this kind of format before. Consistency was the name of the game. Two more wins and no broken mast and we could have been the World Champions! Would be good to thank Craig White, Geoff Dawson and Marty. Also the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, NZ Sailing Foundation, NZ Teams Racing Association for their support.

It was a fabulous event with a half time regatta lobster or two each.”