News library

It’s looking like a busy month in April with several national championships scheduled along with Easter and the school holidays coming up.

Capsizes, a broken mast and even a collision that left a yacht half-sunk told a story about the recent 12-foot skiff nationals and Kingham Trophy/Sanders Cup regattas at the Mercury Bay Boating Club recently.

In our regular focus on the regions, the four regional support officers look at what has been happening in their areas and also provide some advice when it comes to liquor licences.

Alcohol Licences

Many of those with the 2024 Paris Olympics in their sights will be among those competing at next month's Oceanbridge NZL Sailing Regatta.

Aon New to Youth Classes Clinics are a fantastic opportunity for young sailors transitioning out of the junior classes to get a head start as they move into the youth classes.

The Tokyo Olympics looks set to go ahead in July and the signs are positive the youth sailing world championships will also be staged in 2021 after last year's event was cancelled.

Yachting New Zealand are keen to receive feedback on a couple of proposals that could impact yachties and boaties.

The America's Cup has been dominating conversation recently at the Waikawa Boating Club but that has changed on the eve of the first of the club's big four events of the year.

The sailors of tomorrow will get a taste of where the sport could take them when a special guest will make an appearance during next weekend's Toyota Optimist National Championships at Maraetai.

This weekend's 24-Hour Endurance Yacht Race to be staged on Wellington Harbour has attracted the biggest fleet since it was first sailed in 2017.

The PredictWind Girls Champs has been a fixture on the sailing calendar for more than 30 years and its success has prompted the Kohimarama Yacht Club to look into turning it into a two-day regatta in 2022.

Elana Connor’s story is a remarkable and powerful one.

MTF Finance will award six $5000 cash prizes to young New Zealanders as part of their Future Legends Scholarship.

Nick Egnot-Johnson completed his youth match racing career by surviving a tricky sudden death final day to win the 2021 Harken Youth International Match Racing Cup over the weekend.

Some of this country's top youth sailors will be selected for the New Zealand team after October's NZL Sailing Foundation Youth Championships held at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club.

In our regular focus on the regions, the four Yachting New Zealand regional support officers look at what has been happening in their areas.

Most good ideas are adaptations of other good ideas and the Wakatere Boating Club have taken an Emirates Team New Zealand mantra and applied it to how they run their club.

Want to become a qualified teams racing umpire? Is your umpire qualification in need of revalidation?

It's not exactly a fair fight on line but it might be a bit closer on handicap when Ian and Bianca Cook skipper boats in the upcoming Farmer Autovillage Auckland to Tauranga Centennial Yacht Race.

Around 85 percent of boats, both local and visiting the region, are free of marine pests, according to early evidence reported by the teams surveying boats at anchor in Northland.

Red socks are back.

BLAKE (formerly The Sir Peter Blake Trust) have launched their new red socks for 2021 in partnership with The Warehouse.

Respected Marlborough wine producer Lawson’s Dry Hills have achieved carbon zero status, having met the requirements of ISO14064 and received accreditation from Toitu.

The 100th staging of the Lipton Cup has been postponed until the weekend of May 1 due to uncertainty around Covid-19 restrictions.

Simon van Velthooven has made an art form out of turning pedals. In a past life he was a world-class track cyclist, winning Olympic, world championship and Commonwealth Games medals.

We understand that everyone wants to go yachting and boating at alert level 3 and this is something we are working on at Yachting New Zealand.

Conversation around the family dinner table is a little more palatable for Paul Snow-Hansen after he beat his old man for his first Farr 3.7 national title last weekend.

Yachting New Zealand have updated the templates for the notice of race and sailing instructions to accommodate the changes to the Racing Rules of Sailing for 2021-24.

The annual PredictWind Girls Champs 2021 will take place at the Kohimarama Yacht Club on March 20 when more than 100 female sailors will gather for fun and friendship on and off the water.

Yachting New Zealand are inviting youth sailors (Year 11–13) to apply to receive up to two scholarships to participate in the 2021 BLAKE Inspire programme.

Like a lot of teenagers, Serena Woodall is still trying to work out what she wants to do as a career but she hopes a "once-in-a-lifetime" expedition to the Kermadec Islands next week will help point her in the right direction.

In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled It Takes a Village on March 3. 

In our regular focus on the regions, the four regional support officers look at what has been happening in their areas.

Communicating with regatta entrants around Covid-19