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Yachting New Zealand will be facilitating a range of seminars around the country over the winter months to improve and maintain the quality of judging, umpiring and race management, train up new people and ensure current race officials are kept educated and informed with what is an evolving discipline. 

The Waikawa Boating Club are the recipients of a new support boat after a generous benefactor donated the Brede class lifeboat Girvan to the club.

Sign up to the next coaching course in Auckland. It starts this week! 

The sailors in the Round North Island two-handed will be gearing up for testing conditions this week for the final leg into Auckland.

Entries are open for the Auckland Cup Teams regionals which will be hosted by the Kohimarama Yacht Club on March 30-31. This is an important event for high school sailing teams to qualify and rank for April's national championships.

This year's event to find the Top of the South champion team sailing school is shaping up to be by far the biggest since the start of the annual competition more than a decade ago.

The weather was as good as the number of sailors who took part in the recent Wellington Schools Regatta hosted by the Paremata Boating Club.

Kiwi helmsman Phil Robertson helped his Oman Air team score a convincing win at the GC32 Championships held out of Al Mouj on the outskirts of Muscat.

Rio Olympic medallists Sam Meech and Jo Aleh headline a quality field lining up for the OKI 24-Hour Race which begins at Lake Pupuke on Saturday.

The last day of the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen world championship turned out to be a cliffhanger, with the British pair of Steve Goacher and Tim Harper emerging victorious after some drama in the protest room.

The leaderboard had a different look to it after yesterday's racing at the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen world championship in Napier, with the British duo of Steve Goacher and Tim Harper leading the regatta with only two days remaining.

The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup is becoming more real for eight young Kiwi sailors following the draw for the June regatta.

Kiwi sailors have been to the fore on the first two days of the GC32 Championship in Muscat, Oman.

The Jubilee Sailing Trust have scheduled a number of voyages on the tall ship Tenacious for both disabled and able-bodied sailors as part of a three-month prorgamme in New Zealand.

British crews were the big movers on day three of the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen world championship in Napier yesterday but the Australian pairing of Matthew Owen and Andrew Reed hold a seven-point lead at the top of the fleet.

There was an element of uniformity on the leaderboard after the second day of the Lexus Flying Fifteen world championship in Napier yesterday, with Australian crews occupying the first three positions followed by three British pairs.

As many as 224 sailors from 13 countries have already signed up for April's World Masters Games in Auckland and among that group is multiple Olympic medallists, multiple world champions, around the world race winners, America’s Cup winners and coaches o

Conrad Colman finished the Vendee Globe non-stop solo round the world race in 16th but the fact he finished at all was a triumph.

The Bay of Islands Yacht Club are hosting this year's 29er North Island championships on May 6-7.

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A feature of the recent 3.7 New Zealand championships held in Christchruch was the spread of competitors aged from 15 to 70, and teenagers were second and fourth overall.

Murrays Bay Sailing Club and the 29er Association are inviting youngsters to try skiff sailing on a 29er at Murrays Bay on March 4.

The Young 88 national championships have moved forward in the calendar in the hope of enjoying more breeze than the past few years.

Last year youth prevailed at the Hartley 16 national championships but this time experience and wisdom won over with Robin Williams and Mike Insley emerging as winners aboard Shaking Laundry.

Earlier this month a handful of sailors set off from Napier for a 24-hour event to celebrate and honour the life of ellow Sailability Hawke's Bay sailor Samuel Gibson.

Kiwi sailor Conrad Colman has endured a tough Vendee Globe round-the-world race but refuses to give up.

Peter Millar won his fourth national crown when taking out the Noelex 25 national championships in Hawke’s Bay earlier this month.

If ever there was an example that sailing is a sport for life it was at last month's Paper Tiger class national championships in Picton when entrants from 16 years old to 75.

The 2017 Interislander Optimist Challenge and the Port Marlborough Starling Championships had record numbers last weekend, so much so the open Optimist regatta is now the biggest event in the country behind the Optimist national championships.

The Waikato/Thames region are looking to send teams to the regional and national 420 team's championships following a successful training clinic at Lake Ngaroto over Waitangi weekend.

John Cobb can see the savings every month, being one of about 9000 people who have signed up to Yachting New Zealand’s membership card and smartphone app to take advantage of the numerous benefits on offer.