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The Sanders Cup Senior Interprovincial Challenge will be contested for the 95th time next month and appears more open than in recent history.

The Maraetai Sailing Club are interested in hosting more regattas and, on the evidence of the weekend, are well placed to deliver top-quality events.

The cheer that erupted for Bay of Islands local Chris Hornell and the crew of his TP52 Kia Kaha at the CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week prizegiving ceremony was perhaps the loudest in the event’s 17-year history.

Darryl Honey has a fairly simple philosophy when it comes to who is eligible to compete in the regatta he's helping organise - "if it foils, I want it here," he says.

Andrew and Cameron Brown might have wrapped up their sixth consecutive national Sunburst title at the weekend but this one will live long in the memory.

Liv Mackay and Micah Wilkinson don't have particularly fond memories of last year's Oceanbridge NZL Sailing Regatta but the Nacra 17 pair are hoping next month's event at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club will be a lot more satisfying.

The Snake Bank Regatta is a very different event, open to any age, craft and speed - in fact, anything that floats.

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The Lowry Bay Yacht Club in Wellington will again stage the 24-Hour Endurance Yacht Race, this year on the weekend of March 16-17.

Organisers of the Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta are encouraging keelboat owners to support the event, in light of low numbers in the modern keeler divisions.

As the starters' gun fires in the country's largest keelboat regatta this week, three generations of Ferris women will race together for the very first time - writes Suzanne McFadden of newsroom.co.nz. 

A summer job is a common scenario for a lot of students and it helped Veerle ten Have take out the New Zealand slalom windsurfing title recently.

Local knowledge often proves the difference at the Lawson’s Dry Hill New Year Regatta in the Marlborough Sounds but this year overall honours was taken out by Kaimai Flyer from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

Maraetai is known as "the meeting place by the sea" and for three days later this month will play host to more than 300 young sailors as part of the Auckland championships.

Justina Kitchen is back in a world she didn’t think she would occupy again.

It’s a world of speed, excitement and high stakes and, if things go to plan, recognition and rewards.

Anyone gazing out onto the waters around the Royal Akarana Yacht Club over the last couple of months would have noticed boats from a handful of different countries buzzing around and it’s something that’s only going to become more common this year.

Rex Sellers feels a bit like a taxi driver about to hang up the keys, but it wouldn’t really be a surprise if he jumped back in the cab.

One club had more reason than most to celebrate results at the recent Tanner and Tauranga Cups sailed at the Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club in Wellington.

The comment, 'go the girls' rang out in the clubrooms as the top five sailors in the under-13 at the O'pen Bic world championships were recognised.

Sam Meech didn't exactly have the best start to the year.

There he was after a training session at Gulf Harbour when his brand new Laser went for an unscheduled outing.

Race officials make a huge contribution to yacht clubs and sailors around New Zealand and a dozen individuals recently qualified as officials or were revalidated.

Nearly 30 sailors took part in a four-day clinic in the Marlborough Sounds last week as they went in search of speed.

The CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week looks set to be the biggest yet with more than 100 boats already entered two weeks out, confirming its place as the country's biggest keelboat regatta.

The scene is set for a great weekend of sailing at the 2019 Lawson’s Dry Hills New Year Regatta with entries from Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch joining a healthy local contingent.

The 2019 Millennium Cup is raced under the ORC rating system and the ORC chief measurer Zoran Brubisa will be giving a presentation on the ORC rating systems (ORC international, ORC club and ORC superyacht) in Auckland prior to the Cup.

Next month's Symonite OK Dinghy world championships have so far attracted 111 sailors, making it the largest OK event held out of Europe and by far the biggest OK worlds held in New Zealand.

The Christmas holidays is supposed to be a time to feel relaxed but it wasn't the reason Harold Bennett was feeling content on Boxing Day.

Nearly 1300 students have taken part in the Volvo Sailing…Have a Go! programme so far this summer, and schools can still register to sign up for term 1.

The 2019 edition of NZ’s biggest multi-day keelboat regatta will see the return of several boats that have previously sailed in the event, but not for a number of years.

The last time Daryl Wislang won the Volvo Ocean Race, he finished the year by taking out line honours in the famed Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

In the first of a regular blog from a host of New Zealand sailors, Olivia Christie writes about what it meant for her to win the Sir Peter Blake Memorial Trophy and what more she needs to do to achieve on the international stage.

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

Pt Chevalier Sailing Club centenary celebrations 1919–2019