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  • N3 card

    Yachting New Zealand and n3 have teamed up to give affiliated yachting and boating clubs great discounts at more than 50 leading New Zealand suppliers. 

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  • esailing

    Competitors on both sides were left contemplating port tacks, points and penalties as New Zealand took out the Zhik Trans-Tasman eSailing Championships by the narrowest of margins on Sunday.

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  • Alastair Gifford

    Alastair Gifford has taken out the first two events in the 2021 Grand Slam Series, continuing New Zealand's success at these match racing events in the United States.

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  • Evans Bay

    The Barton Marine Winter Series continues to grow exponentially to the point it's now easily the most successful (in terms of participant numbers) sailing the Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club run each year.

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  • Live Ocean

    The Bluff Yacht Club played a key role in a scientific expedition to Maungahuka Auckland Islands recently that saw a unique encounter between an Orange Roughy and a tohorā / southern right whale.

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  • Elliott 5.9

    R+R were knocked off their perch in the fourth round of the Elliott 5.9 Traveller Series at Bucklands Beach recently, with the Revelry crew pipping the series leaders.

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  • esailing

    Matt Blakey will have a silver fern on his sail for Sunday's Zhik Trans-Tasman eSailing Championships and he'll feel a lot more comfortable about that than the livery he was decked out in last year.

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  • Balance is better

    It's fair to say the ambitions parents have for their children in sport don't always match those of their children and it's something we all need to be careful of.

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