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Yachting and Boating Quarterly - Edition 3

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  • Campaign Update: Peter Burling and Blair Tuke

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    Since our last newsletter (early December) we have both been really busy. One of our aims in this post-Olympic year was to sail other high-performance boats as well as the 49er, with the aim of improving our skills. Lots of opportunities to do this have been coming our way and we have really enjoyed making the most of these. Blair sailed to Australia from Kerikeri in December and did his first Sydney – Hobart ocean race on Ray Hasler’s Rikki. It was pretty tough but it's good to have his first ocean race under his belt and it was a great experience.

  • FMJ Racing selected for Red Bull Youth America's Cup

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    If sailing an AC45 wasn't enough, FMJ Racing has been selected to compete in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup! It will be the first time that there has been an America's Cup for youth sailing teams after a vision from Russell Coutts and Jimmy Spithill, both Oracle team member defending the America's Cup.

  • Learn to Sail Coach Course Auckland March 2013

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    This Learn to Sail Coach Course will be held at Murrays Bay Sailing Club on Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March. 21st March 5-9pm 22nd March 5-9pm 23rd March 9am-4pm

  • Interislander Optimist Challenge and South Island Starling Championships 2013

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    Leonard Takahashi-Fry, 2011 and 2012 Optimist National Champion, showed his class and a clean pair of heels to the rest of the 90 strong Optimist Open fleet at the Interislander Optimist Challenge Regatta in Picton over the weekend. With one race outside of the top 10, Leonard give the Fleet a lesson in consistancy to win by 23 points.

  • Campaign Update: Team Jolly February 2013

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    We have been getting back into the swing of things, and keeping rather busy! With sailing, cross training and all of the planning that has to go in at these early stages taking up a lot of our time…

  • Rebuilding the Fleet: Knight Frank South Island Young 88 Champs

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    Defending South Island Young 88 Champion, Milton Bloomfield, described last year’s contest as the toughest event he’d sailed in the last 10 years. This year’s event is expected to be just as competitive.

  • Alex Wotton crowned 2013 Splash National Champ

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    The SPLASH Nationals were held recently in Auckland with KYC exceptional host for the event. 

  • Final Results: Harken International Youth Match Racing

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    Final Placings

    1st Scott Barnes                      Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS)

    2nd Adam Middleton               Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (RPNYC)

  • SCOTT BARNES wins Youth International Match Racing

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    Scott Barnes and his team of Jackson MacFarlane, Rawiri Geddes and Michael Boucher representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron win the HARKEN Youth International Match Racing Championship 2013!

  • Youth International Match Racing: BARNES STEALS THE LEAD AS TOP 8 GO THROUGH

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    Scott Barnes (RNZYS) stole the lead from his previous first equal place holder Sam Gilmour (RFBYC) after 4 impressive wins today to take the top spot with 12 wins and only 1 loss at the completion of the Round Robin.

  • Youth International Match Racing: DAY TWO BARNES AND GILMOUR STILL LEAD

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    Scott Barnes (RNZYS) and Sam Gilmour (RFBYC) still hold the lead with 8 wins each on day two of the RNZYS HARKEN Youth International Match Racing Championships 2013. After another day of impressive close racing on the water, the duo hold a two point advantage over the four next placed skippers all tied on 6 wins each. Both Barnes and Gilmour won 2 out of 2 races today; all of them within a margin of seconds, with the exception of Gilmour’s Flight 13 race against Stephanie Doyle by 2 minute 55 seconds, a margin that is unusually large in this extremely tight competition.

  • Youth International Match Racing: BARNES AND GILMOUR SHARE THE LEAD ON DAY ONE

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    Representing the RNZYS and the Royal Freshwater Yacht Club respectively, Scott Barnes and Sam Gilmour share the lead with 6 wins out of 7 races on day one of the HARKEN Youth International Match Racing Championships. Barnes, a skipper in the RNZYS Lion Foundation Youth Training Programme, lost his lead of 6 wins out of 6 races at the 11th hour - 7.12pm – during flight 9 of the day’s racing to fellow Kiwi Adam Middleton from the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club.

  • Barnes, Dodson & May 6th at Miami OCR

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    As you will have read in the last Inclusive Newsletter: David Barnes, Rick Dodson and Andrew May became the first kiwi Sonar team to compete at an ISAF Sailing World Cup regatta in more than ten years, earlier this month. Together they finished the regatta in 6th place overall, a significant feat.

  • Access action at Waitara Regatta

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    While some of New Zealand’s best Access Liberty and SKUD 18 class sailors were in the thick of intense racing at Oceanbridge Sail Auckland, a group of Access 303 sailors were racing in a slightly lower key event: the Waitara Boating Club’s Annual Regatta.

  • Taranaki Official Launch: 03/03/2013

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    Sailability Taranaki has finally taken delivery of four of their very own sailboats, and a new coach boat to kick their programme full speed ahead. Thanks to funding from the TET Electricity Trust (two Access 303’s) TSB Community Trust (two Access 303’s), Methanex (Coach Boat) and Regal Transport (who delivered the boats), Sailability Taranaki is now able to fully operate on their own feet.

  • Upwind Slalom

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    Upwind Slalom Drill This Drill is designed to enforce lane holding upwind. With an offset mark to the left then right upwind, it replicates 3 shifts on the upwind. A starboard lift of the start, then tack on the first knock. Carry the port lift to the starboard layline. Sailors must hold their lane off the start line and not tack off or they will miss the first mark.

  • Limited spaces available for Open Keelboat Nationals - confirm your entry now

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    The 2013 NZ Open Keelboat championships will be sailed in the MRX’s on the 9th to 10th March 2013 and will be run by the RAYC.

  • FMJ have kicked the 2013 season off with some great racing on the America's Cup 45s in San Francisco Bay

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    FMJ were selected to compete in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup selection Series late last year and since then the boys having been working hard in the gym and out on the water! The team arrived well prepared but not sure what to expect in regards to power, speed etc. I can tell you the team was pleasantly surprised how rewarding and exciting these cats are to sail! In saying that you have to remember that in San Francisco it is the middle of winter and a lot of warm clothes/wetsuits were needed!

  • Working a Side

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    Work a Side Drill This drill is designed to reduce the sailor’s options and focus their attention on a narrow part of the course. Set 3 start lines and 3 top marks. The group is then split into equal size fleets for the 3 start lines. The start line determines which mark you must sail to.

  • RS:X and Techno Nationals - regatta wrap

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    Manly Sailing Club created a festival of windsurfing. Tricky conditions again greeted the windsurf sailors for the last two days of their regattas. Ten international sailors brought variety to all the fleets. A shifty settling south westerly had the sailors searching for any puffs they could get planning in. Those with keen eyes managed to get into them and plane upwind and make even bigger gain in the downwinds.

  • Two more Kiwi Teams vie for Red Bull Youth America’s Cup entry

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    While Yachting New Zealand’s entry to the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, known as the NZL Sailing Team with Emirates Team New Zealand, has automatic entry to the San Francisco Regatta in September, a number of other teams are currently doing their best to prove they can handle an AC45 and deserve a start in September also. Teams without the backing of an existing America’s Cup World Series team have been invited to San Francisco for a Selection Series being held in two stages, and two further New Zealand teams are in the hunt hopeful of earning themselves a start in the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup this September – FMJ Racing (helmed by Will Tiller) and 36 Below Racing (helmed by Chris Steele).

  • David’s Desk: an update from the Chief Executive

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    2013 is well underway and it’s great to hear all the news and results coming in from all the National Championships and other regattas on around the country at this time of year, and a few summer cruising tales too. There is plenty going on for the entire Yachting New Zealand team as we plan for the year ahead, and beyond, so here is an update for you.

  • February/March Sailing Calendar: the coming two weeks of yachting…

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    Here’s a look at the up-coming sailing related events around the country for the next couple of weeks. See the YNZ on-line calendar for full details of these events and those on later in March and beyond. Are you organising an event you would like to see included? Don’t miss out on some free promotion for your sailing events by adding them to the YNZ on-line calendar here.

  • RNZYS ready for International Youth Match Racers

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    Fourteen teams of talented youth sailors from around the world are descending on the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for this week’s HARKEN Youth International Match Racing Championships. Teams from Sweden, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand are getting ready to do battle on the Waitemata Harbour for the illustrious HARKEN Cup.

  • Meet the 2013 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team: 29er Focus

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    Jack Simpson and Markus Somerville have been selected to represent New Zealand in the 29er skiff at the 2013 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships on from 13-20 July in Limmasol, Cyprus. This will be Jack’s second Youth Worlds Regatta having helmed New Zealand’s 29er entry in Zadar, Croatia in 2011; this year he is crew with Markus Somerville at the helm.

  • Auckland Regatta: Get ready to race

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    The sixth Auckland Regatta is on from 22 – 24 March 2013 - ditch the cruising gear and get ready to race! What is it that makes Auckland Regatta great? Most importantly, it is an event for sailors, designed by sailors, and it gets better every year. For 2013, we are hosting the Pacific Keelboat Challenge, and four separate national championship events, for Open Multihulls, 8.5 Multihulls, Farr 1020s, and Elliott 5.9s. All up, there will be 14 racing divisions and one cruising division.

  • Richmond’s Route 66 coastal race offers single-handed division

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    Richmond Yacht Club’s Route 66 coastal race from Auckland to Whangarei is organised in association with Onerahi Yacht Club and SSANZ. With a 9am start on Friday 8th March you’ll finish Friday evening with time to join in the party at Marsden Cove Marina.

  • ISAF Long Service Medals awarded to Ralph Roberts and Jack Lloyd

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    Two New Zealanders were recently recognised by sailing’s international body with ISAF Long Service Medals - Ralph Roberts was awarded an ISAF Gold Medal, and Jack Lloyd was awarded an ISAF Silver Medal.

  • 36 Below Racing: A Late Opportunity Opens Up

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    This week there was some fantastic news presented to a talented group of young New Zealanders, regarding a sailing opportunity to participate at a world stage event. The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup (RBYAC), which is the under 25 restricted age group preliminary to the big show (THE America’s Cup 2013 in San Francisco this coming Northern Summer), is something most young sailors around the world have been dreaming of attending. A pathway towards being a part of that exciting event has opened up for 36 Below Racing. 36 Below Racing is a new team of young sailors formed to pursue success on the World Match Racing circuit and other sailing competitions.

  • Bruce Kendall inducted into NZ Sports Hall of Fame

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    Two-time Olympic medallist Bruce Kendall has been officially recognised with a place in the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. The announcement and presentation was made at the 2013 Halberg Sports Awards held at the Vector Arena in Auckland, where Kendall was named, alongside Jeff Wilson (former New Zealand cricketer and All Black) as the latest to join the illustrious Hall of Fame.

  • IRC Rating Office offers end of season 50% discount

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    The RORC Rating Office is offering New Zealand boat owners an end of season discount on 2012 IRC certificates to the tune of 50% off for new applications and revalidations. The expiry of all 2012 IRC certificates in New Zealand is 31 May which means this end of season discount would suit boat owners wishing to race IRC at Auckland Regatta on from 22 -25 March 2013.

  • YNZ Advocacy Update: Mussel Farm at Stephenson Island (Whangaroa)

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    This application from Westpac Mussel Distributors Ltd is for a large (125ha) mussel farm on the Western side of Stephenson Island (Whangaroa). YNZ’s concerns are its effect on navigation and anchorage, both for recreation and refuge. Consent has been granted for the farm. The hearing commissioners said there were some minor, or possibly more than minor, adverse effects requiring mitigation and that could only be achieved by modifying Westpac Mussel’s proposal.

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