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Calling all coaches. 

This one was too good not to share..... furthermore to this, Steve Hansen has said "As a coach, whether it's with young people or the All Blacks, you've got a responsibility to turn them into better people". (when asked 'what would you say to those engaging in poor sideline behaviour?').

Ran Tan II took line honours on the final leg from Napier to Auckland to make it a clean sweep of the 40th edition of the Round North Island two-handed race. 

First in the World WASZP National Sailing Championship. 2017 NZL WASZP Nationals held at Manly Sailing Club.

The NZL Sailing Team might have finished at the foot of the table after four days of racing at the Extreme Sailing Series in Oman but they collected the trophy for the fastest team on the water.

The NZL Sailing Team picked up some improved results during the penultimate day of racing at the Extreme Sailing Series in Oman overnight (NZ time).

(Photo: Extreme Sailing Series)

The NZL Sailing Team are on a steep learning curve at the Extreme Sailing Series and it's exactly why they ventured to Oman this week.

(Tawera Racing, skippered by Chris Steele. Photo: Extreme Sailing Series)

Former Olympian Dan Slater (Wakatere Boating club) won the Laser class at the 40th sailing of the RSA Regatta at the Panmure Lagoon Sailing Club recently.

The world’s first ever WASZP national championships were held in New Zealand at the Manly Sailing Club last weekend.

The 13,000km journey from Auckland to Patagonia via Antarctica during the iciest season on record of a ragtag crew of sailors is the feature flim at screenings of the upcoming Ocean Film Festival World Tour in Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland.

The Royal Akarana Yacht Club in conjunction with Yachting New Zealand are running an offshore Cat 1 plus first aid course on April 22. 

It has been a whirlwind few days for the NZL Sailing Team and that continued with the first day of racing in Act 1 of the Extreme Sailing Series in Oman overnight (NZ time).

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron run a number of programmes and are calling for applications for both their youth training and performance programmes.

If racing around the world seven times wasn't already enough, Kiwi sailor Stu Bannatyne has signed up for an eighth edition of the Volvo Ocean Race.

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.