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  • Bay of Islands Sailing Week Regatta Ramblings #2

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  • Optimist World Championships: NZL Team day four report

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    The first day of Teams Racing had around an hour postponement on shore then a further hour on the water as the breeze failed to fire early.

  • Optimist World Championships: NZL Team day five report

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    Day 2 of the teams racing was a good day for our NZL International Yachting Trust Optiworlds team despite being narrowly beaten in both of their races by a very tight margin and strong teams - the last race lost on count-back.
  • 2013 Finn Europeans opens in Warnemunde with 103 starters

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    Following three days of registration, measurement and preparation racing begins at the 2013 Finn Open and Junior European Championships in Warnemünde, Germany on Monday. At the close of registration, 103 Finns were confirmed as entered, including 16 juniors, making this the largest Finn Europeans of all time.
  • Gold and Bronze for NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team at ISAF Youth Worlds

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    New Zealand has won gold and bronze and placed 3rd in the Nations Trophy at the 2013 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships just finished in Cyprus. All five kiwi crews finished in the top six making it an excellent year for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team at this pinnacle youth regatta.
  • Optimist World Championships: NZL Team day three report

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    Another stunning morning greeted us in Lake Garda - bright sun and a warm 28degrees with the Peler breeze - quite strong (which is not that good for the afternoon Ora breeze as it has to work harder to push the Peler breeze away). The team starts each day at 8 with a light fitness session then after breakfast are all down at the club by 10.00am to set up their boats.
  • Jan Dawson named winner of Excellence in Sport Governance Award

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    Yachting New Zealand President Jan Dawson was last night named the winner of the Excellence in Sports Governance Award at the inaugural Women in Governance Awards Ceremony held at the Villa Maria Estate in Auckland.
  • NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team day four: Gold in bag with another medal likely at ISAF Youth Worlds

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    With one day to go New Zealand is assured of a gold medal at the 2013 Sail First ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships now drawing to a close in Cyprus with Isaac McHardie (Hamilton Yacht Club/RAYC) and Micah Wilkinson (Ngaroto Sailing Club/RAYC) now unbeatable in the SL16 multihull. Across the other four classes where the 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team feature, our sailors remain in the top seven places with Markus Somerville and Jack Simpson (Wakatere Boating Club) now in 2nd place and eyeing a podium finish in the 29er skiff. Just one day remains with only one race on the schedule to determine the final placings.
  • Finns prepare for record breaking European Championship in Warnemunde

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    The Finn European Championship returns to Warnemünde, Germany for this third time in the event's history this weekend as the 2013 Open and Junior Finn European Championship gets under way on Friday 19 July. It has attracted a huge entry from across the world.
  • Peter Burling and Blair Tuke campaign update - successful start

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    A successful start to our new 49er Olympic campaign towards Rio 2016, winning the 49er European Champs in Denmark last week. There was a good variety of conditions - light to moderate wind , shifty, close to shore, even some rain which made the temperature more like our NZ winter.
  • A2B Update: Family affair for A2B Ocean Race

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    New Zealand’s new blue-water sailing event - the A2B Ocean Race is attracting a range of yachts and crews for its inaugural race which sets sail from Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour on Sunday, 9 February 2014. One of the interesting entries received to date is that of Iemanja, whose crew will feature three generations from one family for the ocean race from Auckland to Bluff.
  • Emirates Team New Zealand update - five points from five starts

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    Emirates Team New Zealand collected another round robin point at San Francisco today. Five points from five starts – four races not being contested – and Emirates Team New Zealand - is at the top of leaderboard with five points, with Luna Rossa on two and Artemis zero.
  • NZL Yachting Trust Optimist Worlds Team – day two report, Lake Garda

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    Day two of the Optimist World Champs has had a mix of highs and lows. The wind ran pretty much to forecast with a shifty and slight Ora breeze of 12 knots lasting for most of the first race of the day, it was a race where mother nature played her part and despite all of the kiwis starting well and rounding the top mark in a good position in each of their respective flights (there are four flights), only Leonard Takahashi-Fry managed a top ten placing. The rest of the team lost ground on their downwind and final upwinds as the shifts became even more variable.
  • New Zealand’s next generation America’s Cup sailors getting ready

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    With racing now underway New Zealanders are glued to the spectacle of Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC72 competing in San Francisco for the Louis Vuitton Cup, but there’s a group of seven young men who are paying close attention. They are the NZL Sailing Team with ETNZ and in six weeks time it will be their turn to take to the stunning San Francisco Bay for the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup and race the fast, exciting AC45 catamarans on the same race track that their senior counterparts are competing on now.
  • Optimist World Championships: NZL Team day one report

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    The first day of the regatta dawned dull and overcast with virtually no breeze - but the locals said the wind would come and it did with an Ora wind arriving around 11am and whilst it started off a little shifty by the time racing was underway it was a good 15-18 knots with a few good gusts to watch out for.
  • RORC running photo competition for front cover

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    In a departure from previous years, the RORC Rating Office launched a competition on 15th July to select the photograph that will grace the front cover of the 2014 edition of the RORC IRC Yearbook, published by Yachting World.
  • 2013 Opti World Champs: NZ Optimist Team get set for racing in Italy

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    The last two days before the 2013 Optimist World Championships has seen plenty of activity and the town of Garda, Italy has filled with opti sailors, supporters and all their gear - there are certainly some great sites to be seen with teams all loaded up and truly set to travel around Europe. Several teams have been 'in camp' for two months doing a circuit around Europe and the confidence amongst these teams is high.
  • NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team day three: Kiwi multi crew extend lead further at ISAF Youth Worlds

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    The Sail First ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships on now in Limassol, Cyprus has passed the mid way mark and all five of the 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team remain in the top six places in their fleets.
  • Starting in the centre of the line

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    This drill is designed to get sailors starting in the centre of the start line.
  • Boat Handling round a mark drill

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    This drill is designed to improve the sailors boat handling skills by maneuvering their boat around the mark without tacking.
  • NZL 420 Team at the French Nationals - almost day one racing

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    The Day that almost was. Bright sunshine, gentle breeze, excited sailors ready for the first real day of competition. One of us out on a patrol boat ready for duty when the AP went up and an ominous dense , white mass approached very quickly.
  • NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team day two: All lying top six at the ISAF Youth Worlds

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    The 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team have returned more solid results from day two of the Sail First ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships on now in Limassol, Cyprus. The New Zealand crews are now all within the top six of their respective fleets with Isaac McHardie (Hamilton Yacht Club) and Micah Wilkinson (Ngaroto Sailing Club) still leading the SL16 event and Sam Barnett and Zak Merton (pictured above) (Tauranga Yacht & Powerboat Club) improving to 3rd overall in the boy’s 420.
  • Yachting Jobs available

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    Looking for a new job in the sport of yachting? On our Situations Vacant webpage you will find a number of positions available around the country that might be of interest including…
  • NZL 420 Team at the French Nationals - Practice Day

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    Happy Bastille Day. The French revere July 14th like the Americans do the 4th of July. Picture the scene of the National Day, the start of the French summer holidays in a seaside town, 27 - 30 deg heat, packed beach, bands playing ...and in the middle of it all and in the hottest part of the day, a major running race exactly where 88 420s are parked. The three Kiwi teams are at Plenuef Val Andre in Brittany, France's Norwest corner and a very beautiful part of the world.
  • 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Optimist World's Team - Lake Garda

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    Alastair Gifford and Henry Haslett were the first of the team to arrive and they managed a catamaran sail on their first day followed by two days of training in light conditions. Nick Egnot-Johnson and Leonard Takahashi-Fry arrived fresh from their racing in the Queensland Youth regatta and Tom Fyfe landed safely after a sail on Artemis's AC45 in San Francisco Bay. Coach Susannah Pyatt has settled the team into a routine of fitness, strategy and sailing.
  • NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team: Great start on day one at the ISAF Youth Worlds

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    Racing is underway for the 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team at the Sail First ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships in Limassol, Cyprus with day one (of five) just wrapped up. New Zealand has representative in five of the eight classes racing, and after day one all the kiwis are laying inside the top nine with Isaac McHardie and Micah Wilkinson leading the SL16 multihull fleet.
  • Keelboat Coach Course September - Auckland 2013

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    The Keelboat Coach course will be run September 7 & 8 out of RAYC, involving 2 days of theory and practical. Coaches are assessed but the course is also a workshop bringing together coaches to learn off each other and discuss ideas on coaches.
  • 2013 Film Festival features Laura Dekker Movie

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    The 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival will feature a sailing movie around Laura Dekker and her solo sail around the world. Showing at SKY City Monday 22 July, 6:30pm and Monday 29 July, 12:00pm, you can visit the film festival website for more information. Here’s the brief…
  • What’s on

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    Here’s a look at the up-coming sailing related events around the country for the next couple of weeks. See the YNZ on-line calendar for full details of these events and those on beyond that. Are you organising an event you would like to see included? Don’t miss out on some free promotion for your sailing events by adding them to the YNZ on-line calendar here.
  • Navatek and Lancer Industries team up in support of NZL’s Youth AC Team

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    American based Navatek ltd and New Zealand’s Lancer Industries ltd have teamed up to provide on water support for the NZL Sailing Team with Emirates Team New Zealand for the Red Bull Youth Americas Cup regatta.
  • Oceania Championships Opportunity

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    There’s an opportunity up for grabs for New Zealand sailors to attend the Oceania Championships as part of the 9th Pacific Mini-Games on during September in Wallis and Futuna.
  • Kiwi Youth Sailors arrive in Cyprus for ISAF Youth World Champs

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    Nine sailors and three support staff who make up the 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team have arrived in Europe in the countdown to racing at this year’s ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships. Limmasol, Cyprus plays host to this year’s prestigious youth regatta which gathers together national teams from around the world and runs from 13-20 July 2013.