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Once a month, a bunch of America's Cup sailors, ocean racers and former Olympic medallists gather alongside some young and others not so young at a lake on Auckland's North Shore.

Yachting New Zealand have joined the growing opposition to a proposal to impose high anchorage fees on superyachts intending to visit for the 2021 Amercia’s Cup.

The Young 88 continues to prove its popularity with high levels of participation and building fleets in the North Island, South Island and West Island (New South Wales).

This year shapes up as an important one for the country’s top sailors as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics quickly comes into focus and today’s announcement of the NZL Sailing Team is a key part of that.

Sir Peter Blake’s Lion New Zealand will return to the Auckland Viaduct Harbour this afternoon at 4pm following an extensive 18-month restoration at Yachting Developments, Hobsonville.

There was a new winner of the Sanders Cup for the first time in six years as the Wellington pair of Wade McGee and Demian Dixon toppled their Northland rivals recently.

Today is International Women's Day and, to mark the occasion, four women, all born in 1994, tell their stories about the vastly different directions they took in their sailing. By Elise Beavis, Gen Saunders, Alison Kent and Gemma Jones.

Volvo Sailing... Have a Go! instructor Justin Hurst knew he was in a different part of the world when a couple of 2m bronze whaler sharks cruised past the group of youngsters he was teaching how to sail.

In our regular focus on the regions, northern regional support officer Raynor Haagh dives into what has been going on in the area.

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The recent report in the fatal accident involving Imedi during the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac highlighted a number of things all keelboat sailors should be aware of.

World Sailing have reaffirmed their commitment to reducing sailing's environmental impact by indicating changes will be made to the way rule 55 is administered in the next version of the Racing Rules of Sailing.

In an era when most sporting clubs are having to increase membership fees to offset rising costs, the Cambridge Yacht & Motor Boat Club have halved their boat-use fees.

More than 20 young females from a host of different classes came together on Sunday for the first Aon Girls Performance Clinic in Auckland.

Yachting New Zealand are working on a number of ways to encourage more females to take up sailing, and then stay in the sport, and a key part of that is the appointment of Rosie Chapman.

New Zealand's top youth sailors have the opportunity to seek funding from two scholarships to help their sailing ambitions this year.

The final day of racing in the Bayleys Young 88 South Island Championships saw an epic tussle between Craig Edwards’ team on Flying Machine and defending champion Harry Thurston on One Way. 

Yachting New Zealand is an organisation that can make a difference and we have an opportunity to join the team. 

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Dorian van Rijsselberghe has a website called the Life of Dorian.

Like a lot of athlete websites, it talks about his past, his present and his future – his journey as a windsurfer.

Those who venture to the Waitemata Harbour this weekend will be treated to a sight that might not have been seen for 100 years.

A number of crews in the SSANZ Two Handed Round New Zealand Race were counting the cost of a punishing second leg, with breakages and damage a common theme on the seven boats.

The JJ Giltinans will feel a bit different this year, with a New Zealand team going in as defending champions for the first time in nearly 50 years, and there's hope another victory will see the regatta come to these shores.

Yachting New Zealand have thrown their support behind a group who plan to protest a council proposal to extend Queen's Wharf by 90m.

It's touted as the grandfather of modern match racing and a bunch of young Kiwi upstarts are keen to shake up the old world order.

Big fleets and great hospitality were once again features of the Interislander regatta at the Queen Charlotte Yacht Club last weekend.

Five days a week the ferry arrives from Auckland at Great Barrier Island.

The depth of 49er racing in this country was illustrated during the national championships at the weekend as Logan Dunning Beck and Oscar Gunn retained their title at the Murrays Bay Sailing Club.

"It was epic, absolutely epic," Darryl Honey enthused when reflecting on the inaugural foiling week in the Bay of Islands which finished up yesterday.

Szabolcs Majthenyi and András Domokos confirmed their status as the world's best Flying Dutchman sailors when they won their 13th title in Nelson yesterday. 

Sailors aged 15 to 76 will descend on Tauranga this weekend to compete in the upcoming Zephyr national championships.

Past and present world champions and medallists litter the latest Aon Fast Track squad which was announced in Auckland today.

It's been 377 years since Abel Tasman brought his ships for a fleeting visit to the top of the south. This week, another fleet of Dutch origin descended on the region, writes Tim O'Connell of stuff.co.nz.

The NZL Sailing Foundation Youth Team will have a fresh look to it this year with a number of newcomers added to the squad picked to represent New Zealand at the youth sailing world championships.