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Kiwi sailors Dave Swete and Ryan Houston have been selected to join the crew of Team Alvimedica for the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race.

We had a great start to the day as we stopped into the local patisserie to top up on morning pain au chocolate.

Jørgen Svendsen wins OK Dinghy Europeans in Steinhude after no wind on final day.

BOP Trailer Yacht Squadron is happy to host two regattas within two weeks of each other this year - "The Rotorua Icebreaker Regatta" 20-21 September on Lake Rotoiti, at Rotorua.

Steinhuder Meer produced its best for the second day of racing at the OK Dinghy European Championship with two races held in glorious sunshine, with wall to wall blue skies and 10-12 knots of warm wind. Defending champion Bo Petersen (DEN) has taken the lead from Andre Budzien (GER) and Greg Wilcox (NZL). Race wins went to Budzien, Jorgen Svendsen (DEN), Jorgen Lindhardtsen (DEN) and Jim Hunt (GBR).

Yachting New Zealand’s June Commodores’ Conference held in Auckland was attended by a representative from over 70 member clubs around New Zealand. An electronic Handbook from the Conference has been compiled and is now available for download here from the Yachting New Zealand website.

Following on from the success of the inaugural Volvo National Sailing and Boating Day the second edition will take place on the 1st February 2015.

Meet some of New Zealand’s hottest sailing property at The Derek Wootton Memorial Trust Gala Dinner and Auction on Saturday 16 August at The Royal New Zealand Police College. With outstanding Sports broadcaster Peter Montgomery MBE interviewing current Olympic Yachting Silver Medalists, current World Champions and members of New Zealand’s Americas Cup Team dynamic duo of Peter Burling and Blair Tuke on centre stage, it will be a night to remember.

We have mixed emotions about our time in Helsinki. A week on from the 2014 Europeans the dust has settled, and we are able to see our strengths and weaknesses more clearly - our performance over the competition had its highs and lows, but we are happy with a 3rd place.

A contingent of New Zealand youth Laser radial sailors have just arrived in Dziwnow, Poland for the 2014 Laser Radial Youth Worlds starting 28th July.

Andre Budzien (GER), the 2012 World Champion leads Greg Wilcox (NZL) the 2002 World Champion and Bo Petersen (DEN) the defending European champion after the first two races at the 2014 OK Dinghy European Championship in Steinhude, Germany.

In early August the NZL Sailing Team will be competing at one of this year’s most significant events on the journey towards the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

One of the largest regattas in Australia Sail Sydney is six days of high class, high adrenaline racing for all dinghy classes. Against the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, hundreds of competitors from around Australia and around the world will race in this ISAF graded event.

Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders, the NZL Sailing Team’s Nacra 17 multihull team were in La Grande Motte, France recently for the 2014 Nacra 17 European Championship.

To host the World Masters Games in Auckland and not include sailing just wouldn't have been right.

Kiwi SKUD Sailing crew of Tim Dempsey and Gemma Fletcher are in the final build-up to the SKUD World Championships on the campaign trail towards the 2016 Paralympic Games.

On Sunday the 6th of July, Royal Akarana Yacht Club hosted an intimate get together of old friends from the sailing circle to celebrate the birthday of Bill Hursthouse. Bill turned 100 on the 10th of July. Rob Heath gave an excellent speech about Bill’s background in sailing and reminded everyone he started sailing at York Bay Wellington and finished with an appearance at the Worlds sailed from Royal Akarana Yacht Club in 2005, about 87 years later.

Emirates Team New Zealand says the Australian Challenger’s withdrawal from the 35th America’s Cup is another demonstration of how tough the game is.

16 boats contested the 2014 Opua round of the Elliott 5.9 Traveler Series - hosted by the always welcoming Opua Cruising Club. Catch up on this event and all the latest news from the Elliott 5.9 Class in this article...

Welcome to the home of sports – Athens, the capital city of Greece - for the ultimate day of the 2014 Open 470 European Championships. After 5 days of intense races in stunning sailing conditions, today the championship closed in to the critical double-points Medal Race to finalize the podium line-up for the Open European and European Championship titles.

The NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team has ended the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships with a bronze medal and two more top eight performances.

Going into the final day of the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships three of the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team are within the top ten of their fleet with our 29er crew in good shape for a podium finish.

The NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team was back in action today in Tavira, Portugal for day three of the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships.

In June I ran a match racing clinic out of the RNZYS using the Elliot 7meters, the clinic was for team Siesta, a Japanese Match racing team I have coached for the last 5 years. This was the second time the team had been to NZ, they competed in the 2009 NZ match racing nationals.

Yachting New Zealand is offering a workshop on Teams Sailing coaching, this is a four hour course spread over two weeknights in September. this course will be run by some of New Zealands top team sailing coaches and will cover a lot of information around teams sailing.

The two NZL 420 crews in Ouistreham, Normandy, have one of those days that is best forgotten. The day started very cloudy and not that warm for Summer, the small French Warship was pretty impressive as it navigated the Harbour locks as the 420 fleet was about to launch but on the course, the two races that were held for each flight were marred by many Black Flag Disqualifications.

The cover of the July 2014 issue of FINNFARE features Andrew Murdoch (NZL) on his way to securing 10th place in the European Championship in La Rochelle. The event was won by Giles Scott (GBR) who is the 'opening shot' for the magazine, published on Monday 14 July.

Yachting New Zealand is looking for a NZCT Regional Support Officer for the upper South Island region, including Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson and the West Coast.

Susannah Pyatt competed in the 2012 Olympics, as bowman in the women’s Elliot 6 match racing class. She has since made the switch to a Laser radial which she is now campaigning towards the 2016. Susanna is also one of NZ’s top optimist coaches and is currently coaching the NZ optimist team at the North Americans in Mexico. I caught up with Susannah while she was defending her NZ National Women’s Match racing title.

It was a long, tough day for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team in Tavira, Portugal on day two of the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have taken the bronze medal at the 2014 Women’s 470 Open European Championships which wrapped up in Athens, Greece today.