Rough weather affected the South Island club championships at Lake Ruataniwha at the weekend.
Just 50 races were completed during a couple of hours each morning as a strong southwesterly wind made any competition extremely trying.
It has been a rough summer for southern rowing.
The Otago championships were abandoned halfway through finals day, and the Canterbury championships were abandoned after the heats.
The disruption to the South Island regatta was particularly unfortunate, as it was the last championship event before the national championships, also at Ruataniwha, on February 15-20.
The South Island regatta was also this year's small boat selection regatta, where elite New Zealand rowers test the promising athletes who are trying to be invited to national trials.
There is one more opportunity for rowers at the Dunstan regatta this weekend.
Officials reassessed the programme on the first day of the South Island regatta, and many events were cut.
However, with wind again on Sunday, even the shortened programme was not completed.
For those events that were raced, times decided the winners of events with more than one heat.
Otago University rower Elyse Fraser finished third in the women's open single, well behind the pace set by New Zealand representatives Emma Feathery and Fiona Paterson.
University's Fergus Fauvel managed fourth in the men's open single, with world champion double rowers Nathan Cohen (first) and Joseph Sullivan (second) split into singles.
Otago University won the club coxed four title, and Otago's Zoe McBride won the under-19 women's single, with Wanaka's Saasha Bruce finishing second.
Dunstan Arm claimed coxed four titles in the under-16 and under-17 men's classes, while the Wanaka crew won the under-16 men's double.
