Rotorua Rowing Club's U18 Boys coxed eight oar crew won the overall time trial from a field of 127 crews in 6m 23s and went on to win the Lake Karapiro regatta in the A Final.
The crew were Connor McNamara-Spackman (stroke), Bradley Grant, Lewis Morrell, Tom Coleman , Jonathan Curtis, Sean van Nieuwenhuizen, Cole Starling, Mathew Bennett and Keely Gage (cox). Glen Reichardt coached the squad.
Rotorua Rowing club (RRC) crews time-trialled for their place in the heats and semifinals at the KRI Spring Regatta over the weekend.
"With the time trial concept each crew had no idea what they would be up against." said RRC captain Glen Reichardt.
There was a constant stream of races with the fastest eight oars, racing alongside the fastest octuples, coxed fours, coxless fours, coxed quad sculls and coxless quads, and the fastest double sculls racing the coxless pairs and single sculls down the 2000m course.