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This week's Princess Sofia Regatta in Palma represents the start of the new Olympic cycle but instead of warming into their work most sailors were left frigid after racing in freezing temperatures and strong winds overnight (NZ time).

There will be plenty of storylines played out at this weekend's first round of the 2022 Elliott 5.9 Traveller Series at Lake Rotoiti, with returning champions, new crews and even two youth teams due to compete.

Sally Garrett and her crew have spent the best part of two years working on their boat speed and it paid off over the weekend when they won the Barfoot & Thompson New Zealand Women's Keelboat National Championship for a second time.

It's not just the cool winds that can often blow through Palma at this time of year, but there's a distinct freshness to this year's Princess Sofia Regatta.

Veerle ten Have admits it felt strange lining up alongside more than 40 other female windfoilers in practice racing earlier this week.

The ILCA (Laser) has been around for 50 years, which means a regatta run out of the Panmure Lagoon has been around for nearly as long.

Sean Herbert is returning to New Zealand today with an extra puff in his sails after taking out the Inspire WASZP Grand Final sailed alongside the final round of SailGP in San Francisco.

Yachting New Zealand will circulate guidance for clubs on the latest changes to the Covid Protection Framework once we receive more information from Sport New Zealand on what it all means for yachting and boating clubs.

The four Yachting New Zealand regional development managers take a look at what has been happening in their areas and also remind clubs about the wealth of resources in our club manual.

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