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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:

For years the Auckland Sailing Club and Royal Akarana Yacht Club have played at different ends of the largest launching ramp in New Zealand.  Both clubs are located at The Landing Oakhu Bay and race on the same strip of water often sharing marks, but in the past that is where it has ended.  Sailors from both clubs return to their end of the ramp at the end of racing, with neither groups combining.

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.

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.

Yachting New Zealand’s hugely successful Volvo Sailing...Have a Go! programme kicked off last week and has already seen 207 kids Have a Go! at sailing.

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

Sunday 18th October saw the opening of Royal Akarana Yacht Club’s 120th sailing season. Many fantastic announcements were made and RAYC has taken some great steps towards being a fully inclusive yacht club.

For those who aspire to be a professional sailor an apprenticeship in sailmaking is one of the best points of entry to consider and there are opportunities now at Doyle’s Auckland loft.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have finished 4th overall at the 2015 470 World Championships at the regatta sailed in Haifa, Israel which has just wrapped up.

The NZL Sailing Team men’s crew of Paul Snow-Hansen have finished the regatta in 12th.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie are back into 4th after day four at the 2015 Olympic 470 World Championships on now in Haifa, Israel.

Yachting New Zealand recently hosted an ISAF International Judges Seminar at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland.

Haifa, Israel put on a tough challenge for the world’s best 470 sailors in town for the 2015 Olympic 470 World Championships, with light tricky winds resulting in postponements and a remorseless race course.

The anticipation is building within the New Zealand Paper Tiger fleet as the 2015-16 regatta season kicks off this weekend.

Dates and venues for the 2015-16season have been finalized and it all kicks off in Rotorua on the 17th of October with the Horowhenua Cup being contested at the Rotorua Yacht Club Sprint Regatta.