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Rio challenged the kiwi Sonar Parasailing crew currently competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games today with tricky, shifty conditions on the sailing course positioned under the spectacular Sugarloaf. 

The Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club is a yacht club that has had unparalleled sailing success at International level in recent times. It is a family based Club overlooking the entrance of the beautiful Tauranga Harbour. It is a Club which supports a strong cross-section of sailing from offshore keelboats, to trailer yachts and multihulls, through to a flourishing centreboard division. 

New Zealand’s Parasailing Sonar team are back into 3rd overall after three races sailed today in Rio at the 2016 Paralympic Games with competition now passed the halfway mark.

The Yachting New Zealand HRG Race Management Seminar held at Vauxhall Yacht Club on the 3rd and 4th September finished off a successful winter series of race management training around the country.

New Zealand’s Paralympic sailing crew competing now at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games sailed just one race on day two of the regatta in tricky, shifty conditions where a 6th place finish sees them lying 4th overall on the leader-board with plenty of racing yet to come.

Entry is now open for the 2016 Yachting New Zealand Youth Trials, the event that will determine which of New Zealand’s promising, young sailors get the chance of a lifetime to compete at the prestigious 2016 World Sailing Youth Championships on home waters.

The Tauranga Yacht and Powerboat Club (TYPBC) is looking to appoint a Learn to Sail Coach/Programme Co-ordinator for its sailing school in the 2016-17 season.

What are you doing on Thursday 16th December? Get involved with the one of the biggest sailing events for 2016!

New Zealand’s Paralympic sailing crew of Richard Dodson, Andrew May and Chris Sharp claimed a race win on day one of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and lie 2nd overall after the opening day of the six-day regatta. 

Emirates Team New Zealand got off to a solid start to the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Toulon today as racing got under way as scheduled in very light and puffy Mediterranean breeze.

Super Sunday at Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Toulon, was not so super for Emirates Team New Zealand, at times being their own worst enemy in conditions that were already so brutally difficult.

With five weeks until race day, matching up lonely boats sitting in marine berths, with enthusiastic crew members, is the big focus of the PIC Insurance Brokers Coastal Classic.

Helping to ensure Council Regional Plans do not impact negatively on boating and sailing is a big part of the advocacy work Yachting New Zealand does and our success benefits all club members. 

The first coaches forum of the series was held on Monday night, and it was a great success.

Find out who are the new coaches in your region! They are all been through the latest coaching courses offered by Yachting New Zealand.

One of the outcomes of the new clubhouse at Murrays Bay Sailing Club is that they now have a facility that can offer more (on land!) than they were once able to.

Weiti Boating Club would like to invite you to their Opening Day on Sunday 18th September from 10am. 

The clock continues to tick down towards the end of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series, with the 8th event taking place in Toulon, France 9th - 11th September as Groupama Team France joins the list of challenges to host a home Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event.

As part of getting better communication between coaches, there will be coaches forums around the country. Find out when and where your forum will be! 

A one-day team sailing umpires’ seminar is being held at Sandspit Yacht Club, Sandspit, Warkworth, on Sunday 25th September, immediately prior to the 2016 Pacific Rim Inter-Schools Team Sailing Championships.

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games is about to get underway with sailors Rick Dodson, Chris Sharp and Andrew May representing New Zealand in the Sonar event. 

Yachting New Zealand held the biennial Safety Inspectors Conference at the RNZYS on Saturday 27 August with 31 Inspectors gathering, from as far north as the Bay of Islands and as far south as Christchurch. 

NOMINATIONS FOR 2016 HAVE NOW CLOSED!

Nicholas Gardiner and Nicholas Williams (Nick and Nick), both students from Marlborough Boys College and members of Marlborough Venturers, Queen Charlotte Yacht Club, Waikawa Boating Club and Marlborough Boys College Sailing team, were selected to represent New Zealand at the William I Koch International Cup, Long Beach California. 

Strange to be sitting here, writing this, these last few weeks being the culmination of a huge four years, eight years together as a team and twelve years of Olympic campaigning for Jo.  The realisation that the journey is over for now, that we have done what we set out to do, and for those of you that say, what? You set out for Silver? I will explain below…

Blind Sailing New Zealand is appealing to clubs and individuals throughout the country to encourage blind and vision impaired sailors to join their register.

At the recently held Annual General Meeting of the Southland Yachting Association it was with great pleasure that the meeting bestowed the honour of Life Membership to the Southland Yachting Association upon two of its very long serving members and delegates.

In what is believed to be a world first for a Yacht Club the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is proud to announce the inclusion of a foiling component to its Performance Programme.