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Entries are already coming in for both the Bay of Islands Sailing Week regatta and the Millennium Cup. It’s shaping up to be a spectacular week of sail, with a diverse fleet that includes boats of all shapes and sizes, from sports boats to superyachts.

To help plan you plan your upcoming sailing season, I have compiled a list of most local and some International regattas for the Hansa Class that New Zealand sailors are likely to attend.

French Bay Yacht Club recently held its Open Day on Saturday the 31st October. They seem to get it right at French Bay with a fine day and fresh south westerly breeze.

In the lead up to the 2015 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards, on in Auckland on 27 November, we bring you a feature on each of the ten 2015 Service Award winners. Today we focus on Matt Hall-Smith.

In the lead up to the 2015 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards, on in Auckland on 27 November, we bring you a feature on each of the ten 2015 Service Award winners. Today we focus on Merlin Caskie.

With a summer season of sailing stretching out in front of us, and the first regatta at Lake Ngaroto less than a week away, it is looking like it will be a great season.

Sam Meech finished ISAF Sailing World Cup Final 8th overall, and the best placed of the four-strong  NZL Sailing Team contingent in Abu Dhabi this weekend.

The regatta wrapped up on 1 November in the United Arab Emirates, with kiwis Sam Meech and Mike Bullot lining up for the Laser medal race.

With nine gold medals at stake over four days of intense racing, the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final gets under way in Abu Dhabi tomorrow with some of the sport's most accomplished elite athletes facing a stern examination.

 

In today’s update I have news from the recent Annual General Meeting, an update on the Member Card and introduce you to our two new Board members, and two new Life Members.

The Sir Peter Blake Torbay Regatta is a finalist in the "Event of the Year" category at the Sport North Harbour Excellence Awards to be announced on Friday the 6th November. 

Yachting New Zealand is delighted to announce that in 2015 two women, Jan Dawson and Adrienne Greenwood, will be awarded Life Membership of Yachting New Zealand. Both passionate about yachting Adrienne and Jan have served in governance and management for Yachting New Zealand each accumulating years of contribution.

Yachting New Zealand has two new Board Directors in Angus Haslett and Jenny de Lisle.

A good fleet of 21 P-class fronted up at the Bay of Islands Yacht Club to contest the2015 P Class North Island Championships. The seven race regatta was held over Labour weekend. After registration on Saturday morning the fleet was out to the race track in the drizzly northerly conditions.  Francesco Kayrouz (WBC) was off to a good start with a couple of wins in the first two races, Henry Wilson (MBSC) and the local boy James Sheldon( BOIYC) were keeping the game pretty close.

Want to give your sailors some encouragement? Check out this video below. I found this on Scuttlebutt. Not a kiwi sailor, but a well known world class sailor. Couple of things I picked out:

Want to brush up on your Opti knowledge? Come along to a workshop to gain knowledge fast, to make your sailors go faster!

Learn to Sail Coach Course (Dinghy) at Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, December 2015.

Are you available to coach at BBYC on Sundays? 

Here is an awesome drill that I got from Andrew Wills (former Opti Worlds Coach)

Have you ever wondered if your sail is set to go fast? Ever wondered how the telltales really work?

Learn to Sail Coach Course (Dinghy) at Murrays Bay Sailing Club, December 2015.

Auckland Harbour is not the Caribbean, so it wasn’t the location.  We weren’t in T shirts and shorts so it wasn’t the weather.  The All Blacks did play a sublime game of Rugby to beat the French on Sunday morning but it wasn’t the final. 

In one month racing will get underway for the 2015 Finn Gold Cup as Takapuna Boating Club on Auckland’s north shore plays host to the world’s best in the Olympic heavy-weight dinghy class.

The 2015 Para World Sailing Championships is set to welcome 140 sailors from 29 nations in Melbourne, Australia from 24 November to 3 December 2015.

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

Use our on-line event submission form to tell us about what’s coming up and we will include it in our calendar and future issues of Briefings.

The Yachting New Zealand programme Volvo Sailing… Have a Go! is getting behind Safer Boating Week distributing waterproof cell phone bags to all sailors taking part in the programme this week.

‘Bag Your Cell’ is one of the catch phrases of this year’s Safer Boating Week – that aims to drive home the message to boaties to take reliable communications when out on the water.

Boats will start by division from 0930hrs to 1000hrs, off Devonport Wharf. Spectators can enjoy great views from North Head, Devonport and Tamaki Drive, or visit www.coastalclassic.co.nz for live streaming coverage of the start.

With the start of the 2015 PIC Coastal Classic on less than two days away those taking part are in the final countdown. If you missed last night's excellent race tactics clinic - or just want a recap - here's a quick synopsis of the main points:

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s annual Nespresso National Youth Training Week is now in its 26th year and the December event is fast-approaching.

Prime Minister’s (PM) Scholarships assist athletes who seek to do well on the international stage in Olympic class competition and also gain a tertiary level education.

With 84 entries received to date the 2015 Finn Gold Cup to be hosted on Auckland’s north sore at the Takapuna Boating Club is set to be an exciting event.

In order to host the event Takapuna Boating Club has an agreement with SPARK to circulate important information regarding the Pipeline and Cable Protection Zone.

Emirates Team New Zealand extended its lead in the overall Louis Vuitton Cup World Series today in Bermuda, ending the 2015 series ten points clear on top of the points table of its nearest rival Oracle Team USA, and 13 points clear of Land Rover BAR.

I am the new Coach Development Manager taking over the reins from Laurie Jury.