Bond (26) is eyeing Waikato oarsman Chris White's domestic record. White won a total of 38 red coats in the 1980s and 1990s.
Bond still has a long way to go, but he already has 14 national titles and is keen to add three more at the New Zealand championships at Lake Karapiro this week.
He is stroke of the Southern RPC crew which includes Jade Uru, Carl Meyer and John Storey.
They won the coxless four title last year and want to defend it.
Bond and Uru are defending pairs champions, and Bond is stroke of the RPC premier eight.
Bond has been training hard with his world championship pairs partner, Eric Murray, over the last three weeks.
"We have been putting in the base miles which we need for later on the year," Bond told the Otago Daily Times.
Bond sees the Central RPC as the biggest threat to his red coat aspirations.
"The eight will be difficult, because we have some lightweights in our crew," Bond said.
North End's Lucy Strack (22) will be keen to continue her dream run of the last two years by winning her third successive premier lightweight single sculls title.
She is also entered in the heavyweight singles, in which she won a silver medal last year behind world championship bronze medallist Emma Twigg (Auckland).
Fiona Bourke (University), a bronze medallist in the women's quadruple sculls at last year's world championships, will contest the women's premier single sculls and is a member of the Southern RPC's quadruple sculls.
Fergus Fauvel (University), who made his international debut last year, is in the premier men's single sculls and the double sculls with Meyer.
It is an important regatta because spots in the Olympic Games team for London are at stake.
World champion crews Joseph Sullivan and Nathan Cohen, Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown, and Murray and Bond will compete against each other in their specialist boats.
Five-time world champion Mahe Drysdale will be keen to regain his men's single sculls title that he lost to Cohen last year.
At Lake Ruataniwha last year Otago rowers had one of their most successful regattas and won 18 medals: seven gold, eight silver and three bronze.
A hot tip for a gold medal is the Otago University novice four of Nicola Shanks, Sophie Smith, Rose Taylor and Kate Stretton, who have dominated South Island regattas this year.
Anna McAslin (North End) will be a strong contender in the women's club single sculls after winning the South Island title.
She will be up against Zoe McBride (Otago), who won the under-16 title at the Maadi Cup last season. McBride and Hannah Duggan will be medal contenders in the women's club double sculls.
The Otago pair of Jack O'Leary and Bryce Abernethy will be competitive in the men's club double sculls.
In the club single sculls Simon Smith (Dunstan) and the University pair of James Saunders and Thomas Stott will be medal prospects.
Otago Girls' High School rowers Cleo Gilmour and Kaitlin Buist have a chance in the women's under-19 double sculls.
University rowers James Harvey and Alistair Bond will be part of the Southern RPC's under 21 four and eight. Bond has also entered for the men's premier single sculls.
