A Classic Charity Weekend at Whangaroa Big Gamefish Club
A Classic Charity Weekend 21st 22nd April
The Whangaroa Big Gamefish Club will be playing host to the W.S. Laurie & Co. Classic Boats
Competition. This competition is different to all the rest throughout the year
because the money raised from the contest goes to the Whangaroa Health
Services. Boats 40 years and older will be competing for trophies and prizes in
game-fishing and line-fishing sections.
It is interesting and lots of fun to
see these old boats still fishing the seas, and talk to their skippers and crew
about their histories. Some boats last year were over 100 years old and you can
see details of last year's competition on the club web-site at:
Whangaroa Big Gamefish Club
We hope to compliment the classic boats with a display of vintage cars, and
have the 4-piece band ‘Momentum' from Auckland playing a variety of music from
past eras.
The competition is sponsored by W.S. Laurie & Co. (2002) Ltd. of
Westhaven in Auckland who supply a
gamefish trophy for the heaviest gamefish of the competition, and lots of
fantastic prizes. In the gamefish section you can fish for marlin, shark and
yellowfin tuna where the club rules apply, and in the line-fishing section
there are prizes for yellowtail kingfish, snapper, kahawai and ‘other' species,
where IGFA and MFish rules apply. In this section you can win the beautiful
wooden North Harbour Foundry Trophy for the heaviest gamefish. Both sections
have their own jackpot lucky boat draw and are heaps of fun with many ideas to
raise funds for the Whangaroa Health Service who would like to refurbish their
mobile clinic.
This clinic travels around the area in places like Totara North,
Matauri Bay and Taupo
Bay, bringing a valuable mobile
medical service to the area. The clinic travels around every week with all the
resident doctors at Whangaroa being rostered into the service, who can deal
promptly with some matters, or provide referral to specialist services back at
the Whangaroa base in Kaeo. This enables the widespread community of the area
to have greater access to the help that they may need.
The Whangaroa Health
Service, the club and W.S. Laurie & Co. would be pleased to entertain and
thrill you, so come and join in the fun for a classic weekend.
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