Manly Sailing Club to Host 2026 New Zealand iQ Windfoil Pacific Championship

Manly Sailing Club at 65 Laurence Street, Manly, Whangaparāoa, was listed as the venue for the "2026 New Zealand iQ Windfoil Pacific Championship" with Race Roster carrying the formal event page and registration interface. Race Roster’s event copy said, "We look forward to seeing you at Manly Sailing Club on Friday 27th February 2026 for three days of foiling action!" and identified the regatta as open: "The 2026 New Zealand iQ Windfoil Pacific Championship Regatta is open to all Windsurfing Boards on Foils."

Race Roster was named as the online registration partner and its event listing showed registration headings, an "Entry Fee" label and the line "Prices are inclusive of mandatory charges, items, and fees," though numeric fee amounts and registration windows were not present in the extracted content. The Race Roster page also displayed help and authentication prompts such as "How can we help you?" and "Don't have access to the authentication code? Send a text message instead." The page footer read "© 2026 Race Roster. All rights reserved."

Public-facing materials included a sponsor tier repeated on the Race Roster listing: Gold - PredictWind and Ze Build; Silver - Bayleys; Bronze - Burnsco and Big Iron. Manly Sailing Club’s site likewise listed the event under its regatta pages as "2026 NZ iQ windfoil pacific championships" among a long run of regattas that included PredictWind New Zealand waszp national championships and the 2026 Predictwind o'Pen skiff regattaPalooza.

There was a clear discrepancy in published dates: the Race Roster copy explicitly named Friday 27th February 2026 as the start and described the event as three days long, while an Instagram post used the title "2026 New Zealand iQ Windfoil Oceanics" and listed dates "27 Feb-1st Mar." Both listings appeared in source material; the Race Roster entry is the formal registration host while the Instagram post used "Oceanics" and gave a specific end date. The two versions were left unresolved in the public snippets.

Context from Windfoil New Zealand reinforced Manly’s pedigree as a foil venue: Windfoil NZ traces the local racing boom to 2017 and notes "It's grown from event to event, with 50 competitors at the first New Zealand Windfoiling Championships at the Manly Sailing Club in 2019." Windfoil NZ material also set expectations on race administration practices, noting "When you are racing you are required to display your name and sail number clearly for the race officials" and that in June 2020 Windfoil NZ adopted its own sail-number registration system.

Racehub listings showed an adjacent foiling calendar at Manly earlier in February - PredictWind New Zealand WASZP National Championships was listed for 20 February - 22 February 2026, Tier 3 | Championship - underscoring that Manly hosted multiple national-class events in the same month. The Race Roster and Manly Sailing Club pages carried the registration and event framework but did not publish final entry fee figures, organiser names, Notice of Race or sailing instructions in the extracted content; those details remained to be posted on the Race Roster event page or the Manly Sailing Club site for final confirmation of dates, fleet splits and fees.