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Heading Offshore or just keen to improve your knowledge and skills? Boating Education have two Boating Safety Courses scheduled this month, both being held at Royal Akarana Yacht Club. 

Sails have been packed away, boats returned home, and the race village dismantled for another year. And what a spectacular Bay of Islands Sailing Week it was this time around.

A good turnout of young sailors attended the 3 day East Coast Juniorsail camp hosted by the Wairoa Yacht Club. A mixture of boats and sailors from Gisborne, Wairoa and Napier with the sunny days and a nice breeze the fleet set off for the shingle bank at the river mouth. 

The 200 days to go milestone on the Road to Rio was marked on January 18th and the opening major regatta of the 2016 Olympic sailing calendar, Sailing World Cup Miami, just wrapped up with two medals for the NZL Sailing Team. 

Broad Bay Boating Club in Otago is fund-raising for an up-grade and refit of their safety boat and are asking for contribution, big and small, through their givealittle page here…

The NZL Sailing Team has claimed two medals at 2016 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, which wrapped up today in Florida. The medals came in the 49erFX women’s skiff class and the men’s single-handed Laser event at this regatta, which is the second in the 2015-16 ISAF Sailing World Cup series. Many of sailing’s top Olympic campaigners from around the globe have been competing this week in Miami.

New Zealand’s 49erFX sailing crew of Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech have gold in the bag at 2016 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, after using the penultimate day of the regatta to open up an unassailable 30 point lead.

Breakfast wasn't the only thing on the minds of the 1,000 or so sailors taking to the water today for the final day of racing in the Bay of Islands Sailing Week regatta. Today was the decider, with everything still to play for in many divisions.

A growing fleet of Young 88s and enthusiastic racing in the capital has been the catalyst to host the Knight Frank Young 88 South Island Championship this year in Marlborough.

The Cruising Club of America (CCA) has announced the recipients of the organization’s five major awards for 2015.

Tasman Bay Cruising Club members Tom and Vicky Jackson have been recognised. 

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Want to become a sailing coach? Want to know more about what the coaches do? Sign up here for the next Learn to Sail Coach Course being held in Auckland, March 2016.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami got underway today where a 19-strong contingent of kiwi sailors are competing on Biscayne Bay in the second regatta of the 2016 ISAF Sailing World Cup series.

Monday 25th January saw the completion of the three day Starling National Match Racing Championship in which each province sends a representative in the quest for National honours in New Zealand’s premier youth class.

Murrays Bay Sailing Club is hosting 2016 Oceanbridge Sail Auckland from the 24-28 February and you can be part of the action - they need volunteers!

Bay of Islands Sailing Week regatta - which started with registration yesterday - Tuesday 26th January - is underway.

Wellington again turned it on for the final day of the 2016 Woodridge Homes NZ Laser Nationals at Muritai Yacht Club in Wellington. A light breeze greeted the 92 sailors as they arrived at the club and some of us were led to believe that the local Masters “we don’t do Light” was a Wellington myth.

Congratulations to the NZL Sailing Team’s Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox on taking out the 2016 470 National Championship over Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie.

Auckland’s Anniversary Day celebrates the founding of the province and all yachts are invited to take part in this year's annual regatta on Monday Feb 1st, whether it be in a harbour race or a passage race.

So, yes, it is now 2016, less than seven months until a little regatta in August that we have been looking forward to for the last three years… Time moves rather quickly, and hopefully so do we!

With the calendar switched to an Olympic year, the intensity on the water at the 2016 Sailing World Cup Miami presented by Sunbrella is a match for the famously bright South Florida sun. In less than 200 days, many of the nearly 800 sailors gathered in Coconut Grove this week will walk in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. 

After a small delay while the wind settled in the morning we enjoyed a full days racing with a fresh NW all day gusting up to the high 20’s and a steep chop providing a solid test for everyone. Racing was again right out the front of the club, with the bottom mark only 100m off the wharf providing fantastic viewing for the spectators on shore. With 4 races completed for the Open fleets and 3 for the Masters the program is back on track with one day remaining.