Alistair Bond (21), a surveying student at the University of Otago, was at Lake Karapiro earlier this month to watch his brother win his third world title.
He was in winning form himself at the annual North End regatta at Lake Waihola on Saturday and convincingly won the men's open pair with Justin Evans (University).
They have both been selected as members of the Southern RPC squad for the summer and displayed this form when they took command at the start and pushed the Otago University pair of Peter McDowell and Matt McGovern into second place.
Alistair Bond, the younger brother of the world champion, joined his family at the world championships to see Hamish Bond and Eric Murray retain their world title in the pair.
Alistair Bond started rowing at Christchurch Boys' High School before coming to Otago University.
His efforts helped the North End club retain the Butterfield Shield for overall points.
In recent years, North End has had a mortgage on the trophy, but it was touch and go on Saturday.
North End finally won with 57 points from Otago 55 and Otago University 44. Port Chalmers-United scored 19 and Dunstan 6.
Otago University caused a major upset when it took the F. W. Eggers Memorial Trophy off North End after winning the men's open four.
The University crew of Peter McDowell, James Harvey, Fergus Fauvel and Justin Evans took control in the last 500m to beat North End's Fletcher Homan, Robbie Mears, Bond and Michael Nisbet by half-a-length.
Nisbet got his revenge in the men's open single sculls when he finally got the edge over Fauvel in the final stages to win a titanic battle by a canvas.
North End crews took maximum points in the women's under-15 quadruple sculls when the club's three school teams finished first, second and third.
It was won by the Columba College crew of Tara Bennett, Olive Dippie, Amelia Gatward-Ferguson, Annabel Angland and cox Emma Booth ahead of the two St Hilda's Collegiate crews.
The masters men's single sculls was won by Kevin Duggan (Otago) ahead of visiting Englishman Anthony Ellman-Brown (North End) who is touring the country after watching the world championships.
The best Otago club performances came from Zoe McBride and Heather Duggan who won both the women's under-21 and under-18 double sculls.
It is the event in which they won a bronze medal at last season's Maadi Cup Regatta at Lake Ruataniwha for Kavanagh College.
McBride was pushed back into second spot in the girls under-16 single sculls when beaten by Jess Linwood (Dunstan Arm).
New Zealand world championship representative Fiona Bourke joined Sarah Lindsey to win the women's open double sculls for Otago University ahead of clubmates Elyse Fraser and Rebecca Craies.
Peter McDowell and Tim Morris beat their University clubmates Tyler Smith and Matt McGovern in the men's club double sculls.
Jordan Saville (Otago) won the men's under-18 single sculls when he pushed Fletcher Homan (North End) into second spot.
The Port United women's masters quadruple sculls of Wibke Schultze, Imogen Coxhead, Robyn Cameron and Jan Brosnahan continued its preparation for next weekend's New Zealand Masters championships by easily beating Otago.
