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Thousands of people with disabilities go sailing every year and it’s a side of our sport that is growing all the time as people experience a level of freedom and control that can be hard for them to find elsewhere in life.

Sofia Higgott is more motivated than ever to achieve her goals after attending the Aon girl's high performance clinic at the Takapuna Boating Club last weekend.

Craig Satterthwaite and his crew were anything but rough and ready as they secured their seventh consecutive Elliott 5.9 National Championship title in Whitianga at the weekend.

What started for Mike Sanderson as a way to "rip around the harbour" with his son to try to keep him in the sport has seen the revival of the Cherub class in this country.

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.