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The Yachting Developments New Zealand Match Racing Nationals will be kicking off on Thursday 13th October where 20 of the world’s top skippers will be racing for the title of NZ’s top match racing team.

Springing to action; Volunteer group from Lowry Bay Yacht Club to receive Yachting New Zealand Service Award.

World Sailing, the international governing body for the sport, and Rolex are delighted to announce a golden line up of nominees for the 2016 Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award and New Zealand’s Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are in the line-up. 

Tickets are now available for this year’s Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards.

Yachting New Zealand’s on-line calendar is a FREE promotional tool for your sailing or boating event!

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Do you need dinghy or tender insurance?  Aon has launched its very own comprehensive dinghy and tender insurance offering with Vero Marine. This provides insurance for your boat, trailer and equipment throughout New Zealand, whilst travelling on land, on the water and whilst racing. Find out more here.

Another standout year in New Zealand yachting and boating will be celebrated on 25 November as the Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards honours significant achievements and services made to the sport in 2016.  

Please ensure the contact details we hold for your Club/Class are correct, we rely on members keeping us up to date so we can continue to communicate with you effectively.

Paperwork for the Annual General Meeting has been sent to all affiliated members, so if you have not received the pack please get in touch with Beth Orton at the office and we will organise another set of paperwork.

The Lowry Bay Yacht Club at Seaview Marina in Wellington will host the official launch of the 24-Hour Endurance Yacht Race on Friday 30 September at LBYC’s clubhouse, starting at 7.00pm.

ALL INVITED to the RNZYS Open Day Saturday 1st October 2016.

Yachting New Zealand is on board with the Auckland On Water Boat Show this year offering show visitors the chance to try out sailing. 

New Zealand’s Paralympic sailing crew have finished Rio 2016 agonisingly close to the podium, drawn on points for third, but separated on countback to close the regatta in 4th place. 

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.