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It was hot and calm in Rio, Brazil today, and no racing was possible at the Olympic Sailing Test Event (Aquece Rio – International Sailing Regatta 2014).

Yaching New Zealand is looking to employ three qualified instructors for the 2014/2015 Volvo Sailing... Have A Go! programme. The Northern region involves travel through Waikato, Auckland and Northland. The Central region involves travel from Waikato to Wellington while the Southern region covers the whole South Island. These are contract positions commencing late September 2014 and continuing through until mid April 2015.

All Clubs need someone to do results – so Yachting New Zealand is offering an introduction to using the free Sailwave Results program.

Racing is underway for the NZL Sailing Team in Rio, Brazil in the RS:X and Finn classes at Aquece Rio – International Sailing Regatta 2014 – the Olympic Sailing ‘Test Event’.

A Bullet, another Yellow Flag and things that fall off coachboats..... A good day and a bad day for the Kiwi 420 Team, Sam and Zak score a bullet on the second and final race of the day, Sophie and Annabel get a second Yellow Flag for 'sculling' and have to retire, disqualified. Other NZL sailors still slow to get firing.

More than 320 sailors from 34 nations will compete at the first test event of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games from 2-9 August from the Marina da Gloria.

The qualification system to the ISAF Sailing World Cup Final - the world's pinnacle sailing regatta contested by the best Olympic class competitors - has been published.

The ISAF World Sailing Rankings for 28 July 2014 have been released.

Racing got underway on day 3 in a 12-15 knot breeze from the north, perfect conditions to complete the final two races of the 6 race qualification series. With the discard kicking in after race 5, some shuffling on the leaderboard as teams discarded their worst score in the 420 Open and 420 Ladies fleets.

Another windy day on the Kingston waters to wrap up the third and last day of the qualification series. After a stormy start to the day, the rain cleared and the breeze filled in from the South-South West with a steady 10-12 knots.

The New Zealand Recreation Association in Wellington invites you to come along to an amazing workshop we are running on successful promotion and marketing in the sport and recreation sector

The second day of the 29er World Championships began with unsteady winds from the North in the early morning. As sailors launched and arrived at the course there was only a short postponement to allow Kingston’s famous thermal to kick in. By early afternoon the South West breeze had begun filling in with 12-16 knots of steady breeze.

The Kiwi Teams all went through Registration and Measurement without too much stress, add a little weight here and there, a new lifejacket and one stolen, but generally ok. James, Tobias and Team management have been working really hard to get everyone organised, having Tobias as a German speaker certainly helps.

Wellington Ocean Sports will be running a Coastal Medic course over the weekend of 30 and 31 August. This course offers participants the qualification of Coastguard Boating Education Service Marine Medic (Coastal), NZQA units 6400, 6401, 6402 and Maritime New Zealand commercial first aid. It should be a prerequisite for anyone involved in ocean sports.

Over 200 sailors in their 29ers hit Lake Ontario for a wet and windy start to the 2014 29er Worlds. The rain never let up but brought lots of breeze in the 20 knot range.

Kiwi sailors Dave Swete and Ryan Houston have been selected to join the crew of Team Alvimedica for the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race.

We had a great start to the day as we stopped into the local patisserie to top up on morning pain au chocolate.

Jørgen Svendsen wins OK Dinghy Europeans in Steinhude after no wind on final day.

BOP Trailer Yacht Squadron is happy to host two regattas within two weeks of each other this year - "The Rotorua Icebreaker Regatta" 20-21 September on Lake Rotoiti, at Rotorua.

Steinhuder Meer produced its best for the second day of racing at the OK Dinghy European Championship with two races held in glorious sunshine, with wall to wall blue skies and 10-12 knots of warm wind. Defending champion Bo Petersen (DEN) has taken the lead from Andre Budzien (GER) and Greg Wilcox (NZL). Race wins went to Budzien, Jorgen Svendsen (DEN), Jorgen Lindhardtsen (DEN) and Jim Hunt (GBR).

Yachting New Zealand’s June Commodores’ Conference held in Auckland was attended by a representative from over 70 member clubs around New Zealand. An electronic Handbook from the Conference has been compiled and is now available for download here from the Yachting New Zealand website.

Following on from the success of the inaugural Volvo National Sailing and Boating Day the second edition will take place on the 1st February 2015.

Meet some of New Zealand’s hottest sailing property at The Derek Wootton Memorial Trust Gala Dinner and Auction on Saturday 16 August at The Royal New Zealand Police College. With outstanding Sports broadcaster Peter Montgomery MBE interviewing current Olympic Yachting Silver Medalists, current World Champions and members of New Zealand’s Americas Cup Team dynamic duo of Peter Burling and Blair Tuke on centre stage, it will be a night to remember.

We have mixed emotions about our time in Helsinki. A week on from the 2014 Europeans the dust has settled, and we are able to see our strengths and weaknesses more clearly - our performance over the competition had its highs and lows, but we are happy with a 3rd place.

A contingent of New Zealand youth Laser radial sailors have just arrived in Dziwnow, Poland for the 2014 Laser Radial Youth Worlds starting 28th July.

Andre Budzien (GER), the 2012 World Champion leads Greg Wilcox (NZL) the 2002 World Champion and Bo Petersen (DEN) the defending European champion after the first two races at the 2014 OK Dinghy European Championship in Steinhude, Germany.

In early August the NZL Sailing Team will be competing at one of this year’s most significant events on the journey towards the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

One of the largest regattas in Australia Sail Sydney is six days of high class, high adrenaline racing for all dinghy classes. Against the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, hundreds of competitors from around Australia and around the world will race in this ISAF graded event.

Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders, the NZL Sailing Team’s Nacra 17 multihull team were in La Grande Motte, France recently for the 2014 Nacra 17 European Championship.

To host the World Masters Games in Auckland and not include sailing just wouldn't have been right.

Kiwi SKUD Sailing crew of Tim Dempsey and Gemma Fletcher are in the final build-up to the SKUD World Championships on the campaign trail towards the 2016 Paralympic Games.