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In our regular focus on the regions, the four regional support officers look at what has been happening in their areas and also provide some advice on what your club can do over the winter months.

Winter club opportunities

With 16 entries from the Far North to the South Island confirmed, this week's Elliott 5.9 National Championships in Whitianga represent the biggest turnout since 2014.

Annabelle Rennie-Younger has seen enough of the treatment table lately so was pretty happy to see herself on top of the Laser Radial fleet at the 2021 Freshwater Champs at Lake Pupuke last weekend.

Members of the SSANZ committee were so confident it would sell out they had a sweepstake but no one predicted entries to next year's inaugural Evolution Sails Northern Triangle would be gone in less than three minutes.

Holding both a men's and women's kiteboarding (formula kite) competition has been chosen by the World Sailing council as their preferred option if the IOC reject the mixed offshore keelboat event for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Nick Egnot-Johnson and his Knots Racing team survived a nervy final day to win the 2021 Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championship at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

Solo sailor Elana Connor completed the final leg of her figure of eight voyage around New Zealand to help raise funds for teenagers in care to go on a life-changing programme.

The Lipton Cup has produced some close finishes in its time but few as dramatic as the conclusion to the 100th staging of the famous event recently.

Graham Mander might have become the first New Zealand sailor to win an Olympic gold medal if brotherly rivalry had been a bit stronger.