Bucklands Beach Yacht Club

History books can be looked back to with pride and envy of new sailors to the Club. The Kendall family became the first brother and sister to have both won gold for New Zealand. Bruce Kendall followed up his bronze medal in the Boardsailing at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games by taking gold four years later in Pusan, South Korea. His sister Barbara continued the family tradition, winning gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in the Boardsailing. Barbara went on to claim silver and bronze medals at the next two Olympics.

Aarron McIntosh continued the Clubs phenomenal Boardsailing success, by winning a bronze at the 2000 Sydney Games, adding to his earlier three Mistral world championship triumphs.

Brad Marsh won the Volvo Ocean Race in 2011-12 with the French team Groupama 4 and received the overall Abu Dhabi Seamanship Award. In 1993/94 Ross Field won the Whitbread 60 Division in Yamaha sailing under the Bucklands Beach Yacht Club burgee, an outstanding achievement. Many other Bucklands Beach Yacht Club sailors – too many to name individually – have and continue to enjoy success at national level.

We are proud of every success enjoyed by all of our talented members and hope that our members feel the wraparound support the Club offers each individual as they realise their sporting goals and achievements. The Club does all it can to continue to provide an avenue for those in search of success on the water and offers every encouragement to the next generation of Bucklands Beach Yacht Club members keen to write their names into the New Zealand sailing history books.