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The Marauder 8.4 Class Championship will be held the 14th and 15th May. The races are to start near Northern Leading marker out in the Waitemata Harbour.

This year a large fleet of the popular Alan Wright designed 8.4metre Marauder yachts are entered for the competition. The event is being co-organized by the Marauder 8.4 Owners Association and the Richmond Yacht Club. Division 1 has many entered and should be an exciting race. Mahita’s skipper has never entered a Marauder regatta before therefore his crew is an unknown quantity.

Well, the incredible run of fine weather we have had has finally taken a small pause, but there is no pause to action out on the water!!! . The summer of 2015 – 16 will go down as the best ever at Wellington Ocean Sports, with the largest number of participants getting involved that we have ever had. Demand is high, but there are still places available on our up and coming courses. As we all know, in Wellington you can get good days any time of the year (and bad days too truth be known), and we have many exciting course scheduled over the next few months. Take a look!!! 

Torbay Sailing Club will host the Youth Worlds in December this year.

World Sailing announced today that Auckland, New Zealand has been confirmed as the host venue for the 2016 Youth Sailing World Championships.

It might be International Star Wars Day, but to us, it's the one month reminder to the start of the 2016 ANZ Sail Fiji Offshore Yacht Race!

Yachting New Zealand is sad to report that Life Member Peter Cornes has passed away.

Kiwi sailor Colman poised to take on the ‘Vendee Globe’  with Zero Emissions - he needs your help!

Help Kiwi Gold Sailing bring home the GOLD by joining us for an unforgettable evening on 1 June at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

Kiwi Gold Sailing are representing New Zealand at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and urgently need funding to compete in crucial international training regattas to prepare the boys for Rio.

Yachting New Zealand’s Volvo Sailing…Have a Go! schools programme has wrapped up its 10th season, and this season saw 3408 students given an opportunity to simply “Have a go!” at sailing, -try it out, test the waters and see if it appeals as an activity or sport. 

Have you ever wondered where most of our sailors start? How they get introduced to sailing? Yachting New Zealand have three trailers that tour the country as part of our Volvo Sailing...Have a Go! program. 

Because we all love videos, here is a Tedx talk to watch.

Purchase your magnetic boat set now! These stick to whiteboards (that have magnets), and in the 'Coaches' kit, there are 8 boats with movable sails.

Halberg Disability Sport Foundation offer a No Exceptions Training workshop (FREE!).

The 2016 Secondary School Team Sailing Nationals were held at Sandspit Yacht Club, Algies Bay. Racing started on Sunday 24th April and continued until Friday 29th April. 

With the decision being made to remove sailing from the Paralympics, the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation pledges to use the funds raised through Bart’s Bash in 2016 to help promote and develop disabled sailing globally.

The Health and Safety at Work Act came into law on the 4th of April 2016 and with it there are changes which will affect clubs. Now is the time to become familiar with the changes and ensure your club is up to scratch in the health and safety department.

Eli Liefting and Rose Dickson finished second overall at the 2015 Inaugural NZL National Feva Championship, but this year, they claimed the title with six guns from seven races. Their worst result was a second in race one which they were able to drop.

New Zealand has won gold in the 49er and silver in the Laser at the 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres.

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke had their medal secure before starting today’s medal race, Sam Meech’s silver came after a dramatic on water tussle.

The five-day regatta wrapped up today in France under stormy skies with a breeze that went from brisk to bust.

New Zealand also collected two medal race victories with both Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie in the women’s 470 and Andy Maloney in the Laser finishing on a high note.

This is a special early Regatta Ramblings to give you a ‘heads up’.

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have once again secured 49er gold before starting the medal race, this time at 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres in France.  Another six New Zealand crews will sail in tomorrow’s medal races on the final day of the regatta.

Australia's sporting capital, Melbourne, is to host the 2016 Sailing World Cup Final from 4-11 December out of the St Kilda Sailing Precinct.

Light and fickle winds in Hyeres, France made for tough racing and changing fortunes on day three of the 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres, where a fifteen strong team of New Zealand crews are competing. 

Murrays Bay Sailing Club (MBSC) hosted the Windsurfing Nationals over ANZAC weekend. 34 Sailors raced in the RS:X, Techno,  Kona and Raceboard classes. It is the first time in recent history that centreboard windsurfers had sailed in one regatta.

At the close of day two 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres the NZL Sailing Team are in the top two in three events, with a total of nine kiwi crews placed within the top ten.

While day one produced top end conditions, with capsizes, rig and boat damage across the fleets, today things turned around and the sailors faced the challenge of a no wind delay, followed by a shifty building breeze. 

The NZL Sailing Team has made a strong start at 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres Regatta holding the early lead in three of the ten Olympic class events being contested in France including the Finn, 49er and women’s 470. Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, and Josh Junior all out-performed their rivals today and sit atop their respective leader boards after day one of the five day regatta.

Yachting New Zealand invites racing yacht owners and crew to attend an exciting and unique opportunity to learn all you want to know about IRC with the Director of the RORC Rating Office, James Dadd, coming to New Zealand to share his knowledge.

Our talented young sailors have been selected to represent New Zealand in the Optimist sailing events overseas.

A squad of 26 of New Zealand's strongest Optimist sailors were selected based on results from the NZ Optimist Nationals held in Kohimarama over Easter, and their national ranking from the season ranking regattas.