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Entries for the Yachting New Zealand Youth Trials being held 6th-10th October at Murrays Bay Sailing Club close on the 30th September.

We’re officially into spring. It’s the time of year that things are ramping up at the club house with the 2015-16 summer season nearly upon us and I would like to wish all clubs and your members a safe boating season whether you’re cruising, racing, learning to sail, paddling or fishing.

This year Tauranga Yacht & Powerboat Club has three different types of course on offer for young people who want to get into sailing or get better at it. We would love you to come along especially if you’ve never sailed before!

On the 6th of September, Pleasant Point Yacht Club in Christchurch opened for our 95th season of sailing on the Estuary and our third season at our new location in South New Brighton Park, about 600m across from our earthquake wrecked Rat Island site beside the South New Brighton Bridge.

The Annual General Meeting pack containing all the information about the upcoming AGM to be held on Saturday 17th October has been sent to all affiliated members.

There's now yet another great reason to get your entry in for this year's PIC Coastal Classic.

The IOM New Zealand radio sailing Championships are being held in Hamilton this coming weekend on September 25-27. The venue is Hamilton Lake (Lake Rotoroa).

It's just two months to go until the Finn class heads down under for the 2015 Finn Gold Cup at Takapuna Boating Club in Auckland, New Zealand.

Yachting New Zealand and the Committee for Sailors with Disabilities will be holding an Inclusive Sailing Forum at the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club on the 18th of October.

Sailability Wellington, a charitable trust that provides sailing opportunities for people with disabilities in Greater Wellington, launched its brand-new safety boat at Evans Bay Yacht Club on Sunday July 19.

The Kerikeri Cruising Club has confirmed the Inaugural Kerikeri to Vava’u Ocean yacht race will take place starting on the 6th of May 2017 with a cruising division starting on Thursday the 4th.

In an effort to provide more value to Yachting New Zealand affiliated clubs and their members, we are introducing a Member Card and smartphone app. The card and app will be free for all affiliated clubs, and both contain benefits fort the club and its members. They allow individuals to demonstrate the club’s affiliation to the national body as well as access to Member Benefits from Yachting New Zealand’s partners.

Campbell Stanton and Francesco Kayrouz have shown they are a sailing force to be reckoned with.

After performing above expectations at the European Optimist Championships in Wales earlier in the year, the Rosmini College duo have claimed first and second in yachting's debut at the NZCT AIMS Games.

Yachting New Zealand would like to introduce you to two new team members who you might be speaking to over coming months.

Whether you’re interested in coaching, helping to run races or both, Yachting New Zealand has a range of Coaching Courses and Race Official Seminars on around the country over the quieter winter months.

Port Chalmers Yacht Club invites registrations for the North U Regional Coaching Clinic with Hayden Whitburn.

Yachting New Zealand is running a Youth Trials Regatta at the Murrays Bay Sailing Club from the 6th-10th October.  

The Race Management Seminar held at Waikawa Boating Club this past weekend was a milestone for John and Linda Parrish, as it was the 51st Seminar they have facilitated since resuming the role in 2003.

TVNZ brought their Breakfast show to the NZCT AIMS Games and Tauranga turned on a stunning morning!

Sailing is included in the schedule for the first time in 2015 and NZL Sailing Team’s Blair Tuke was in Tauranga to speak at the opening ceremony. He took the time to be part of the Breakfast Show live broadcast too… if you missed it live you can watch it back

Ever imagined yourself sailing in a small dinghy, getting on board one of the big boats racing on the harbour or maybe teaching the kids how to sail?

A strong westerly pruned sailing’s debut on the first day of the NZCT AIMS Games in Tauranga but the Anchor-sponsored racing that did happen on the water proved spectacular.

Sailability Whangarei now has all tide access with the development of a new jetty with a wheelchair accessable ramp officially opened on 21 August.

Yachting New Zealand is running a Youth Trials Regatta at the Murrays Bay Sailing Club from the 6th-10th October.  

In four days time, 365 school children and over 80 offices and schools will ‘go gold’ to help Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) celebrate exactly ‘1 year to go’ to the start of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Egor Terpigorev (RUS) is featured on the cover of the August edition of FINNFARE, the magazine of the International Finn Class. He was taking part in a Rule 42 clinic held in Valencia before the Finn Silver Cup (Junior World Championship).  Though too old to compete in the Silver Cup, he went on to represent Russia at the Aquece Rio Olympic test event in August.

Entries have opened for the 2016 Bay of Islands Sailing Week, scheduled to take place over the final week of January next year. Registration will take place on 26 January, followed by three days of intense, exciting and colourful racing from 27 to 29 January

The year is rolling on. The 2016 NOR and Entry Form are now on line. It will be so exciting if there are lots of early entries.  2016 is year fourteen for Bay of Islands Sailing Week, New Zealand’s most popular three day regatta.  Keep up the support and book your berth at Far North Holdings Opua.  enquiries@boimarina.co.nz

New Zealand Olympic Committee CEO Kereyn Smith has been elected to the position of Vice President to the Commonwealth Games Federation Board.

Harbour Sport is proud to announce the return of The Massey University Harbour Sport Excellence Awards for 2015.

This year's NZCT AIMS Games has cracked another milestone, breaking through the 8000-athlete barrier for the first time.

With late entries providing a final burst, 8007 intermediate-aged competitors from 261 schools across New Zealand will be in Tauranga from this weekend (September 6-11), battling it out across 19 different sporting codes.

Emirates Team New Zealand was victorious in Gothenburg today at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series.

It was yet another day of challenging light air conditions and multiple delays awaiting breeze in Day Three of the Detroit Cup, but race managers had just enough wind to make progress on the double Round Robin and have options on how to move forward in the format for the final day of racing tomorrow. The light conditions have prompted race managers to plan the start for one hour earlier tomorrow, at 0900, for the final day of racing.