Morris (20) made it a home town win in the South Island Laser championships on Otago Harbour, after bagging wins the previous years in Timaru and then Nelson.
Morris took the title from about a dozen other boats, and found it a day of intense sailing.
"Because the harbour here is a bit smaller the races were not as long so they crammed five races into the one day. I was pretty knackered after that," he said.
"Then the following day it started out really windy and never let up. So they didn't have any racing at all."
He won two of the five races and finished close enough in the others to bag the title, though he said it was an intense day.
Morris first started sailing when he was about 12 in an Optimist yacht and then graduated to the Lasers.
He was content to stay in that grade of boat at the moment and was weighing up whether he would go to the national championships, which are in Wellington in the middle of next month.
"There are a lot more boats there, and next year is also a Olympic year so there will be guys who will just turn up from right around the world. The competition is going to be tough.
I might look at sailing in Radials up there."
Morris, a surveying student at the University of Otago, lives in Macandrew Bay, so the harbour was at his doorstep.
He goes out on his boat most days, heading towards the Vauxhall area to hone his skills.
Though enjoying the sport he had no real ambition to be a professional sailor, saying it was a lifestyle he doubted he would enjoy.
