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Registrations are open for the Teams Racing Umpire Seminar being held in April in the lead up to the National Secondary Schools Teams Racing Regatta.

The recent passing of New Plymouth yachting man Roy Holdt will leave a large gap for not only his family and friends, but also the wider yachting community.

Kohimarama Yacht Club (KYC) hosted its annual Girls Regatta on Saturday 19 March.

This event is open to under -19 girls only. In fact all boys are banned from the club house while the event is on. The AON 29er clinic and Optimist training and they had to move down the beach and use the public change rooms. 

Beau Geste clinches regatta title after a superb final days yachting at the Jack Tar Auckland Regatta 2016

Beau Geste have claimed another regatta title in style after a top class final day for Division A in Auckland. Helmed by Karl Kwok, Beau Geste won 3 out of the 4 races sailed today in what were fantastic conditions for yachting off the Eastern Beaches.  Beau Geste were sitting in second place behind Viento 2 after day one, but their 3 solid wins and a 3rd in the final race surged them to the top of the standings, and with 7 out of 8 line wins across the regatta – I don’t think anyone can argue their victory isn’t deserved. 

The 39th RSA Regatta was held on the challenging waters of Panmure Lagoon. 

They came from far and wide, Taipa to the North and Ohope to the South as well as Whangarei, Waikato and Auckland with one sailor coming from the UK making up a strong fleet of 41 Lasers split into 30 standards and 11 Radials. 

One of the country’s biggest regattas is getting ready to hit the water this weekend on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. The Jack Tar Auckland Regatta 2016, a join initiative between the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Buckland’s Beach Yacht Club.

The 14ft Javelin Skiffs got together on Lake Taupo last weekend, for their New Zealand Championships.

A new boat being built along with a date change reduced the fleet, but the racing was just as competitive as ever. 

Saturday, 12 March, 2016 was the 95th Lipton Cup Day. This is an annual Ponsonby Cruising Club Interclub Challenge sailed in the 22 ft Mullet Boats. 

Josh Berry and Henry Haslett win 2016 420 Nationals with 10 wins from 12 races and a winning margin of 18 points.

The Stewart 34 Association invites you to our biggest event of the year to celebrate a great season of sailing, acknowledge our class champions and have a great evening with the owners, crew, supporters and their partners who keep Stewart 34's thriving as the best one design keelboat fleet on Auckland harbour. 

Today the first sailing selections to the New Zealand Olympic Team to Rio 2016 were named at a beachside announcement at Auckland’s Wakatere Boating Club.

The 2016 Finn European Championships has wrapped up in Barcelona, Spain where New Zealand’s Josh Junior has finished 4th overall.

Josh Junior will go into the final day of the 2016 Finn European Championships well placed for a podium finish, lying 2nd overall. The regatta, featuring 90 boats and being raced in Barcelona Spain, wraps up tomorrow.

The Open Finn European Championships stalled on the fourth day with no more races on the board despite spending four hours on the water trying. With two days to go and a maximum of four fleet races and the medal race to go Josh Junior (NZL) leads from Zsombor Berecz (HUN) and Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) in the 90 boat fleet.

New Zealand’s Josh Junior has hit the lead at the 2016 Finn European Championships after three days of racing in Barcelona, Spain.

With race four of the regatta finally getting underway around 3pm local time, only one race was possible for the 90 boats vying for the European crown in the Olympic heavy-weight dinghy. 

The OKI 24-hour Race 2016 lived up to its’ reputation as the toughest race on the sailing calendar as 76 sailors from around the country battled it out to complete the highest number of laps non-stop for 24 hours.

New Zealand’s Josh Junior has jumped to 2nd overall after day two of the 2016 Finn European Championships n now in Barcelona, Spain.

The Royal Akarana Yacht Club race from Auckland to Denarau, known as ANZ Sail Fiji, is definitely going ahead as the race will bring tourism to the area which will assist greatly in their recovery process, after parts of the island nation were devastated by Cyclone Winston.

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Some of New Zealand’s Olympic sailors and Rio hopefuls will be flying the alternative flag design ahead of the New Zealand flag referendum decision.   

The Royal Akarana Yacht Club race from Auckland to Denarau, known as ANZ Sail Fiji, is definitely going ahead as the race will bring tourism to the area which will assist greatly in their recovery process, after parts of the island nation were devastated by Cyclone Winston.

Para-Sailors Richard Dobson, Andrew May and Chris Sharp have been selected by Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) to compete at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, taking place 7-18 September 2016. The announcement was made jointly by PNZ and Yachting New Zealand in central Auckland, today.

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Emirates Team New Zealand have maintained their lead on top of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series after an exhaustive two days of close light air racing in Muscat, Oman.

20 Year old George Anyon representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s Youth Training Programme, with his team of Logan Andresen, Josh Wijohn and Patrick Haybittle have won the NESPRESSO Youth International Match Racing Cup.