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  • Optimist

    The annual PredictWind Girls Champs 2021 will take place at the Kohimarama Yacht Club on March 20 when more than 100 female sailors will gather for fun and friendship on and off the water.

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  • Worser Bay Boating Club

    In our regular focus on the regions, the four regional support officers look at what has been happening in their areas.


    Communicating with regatta entrants around Covid-19

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  • Serena Woodall

    Like a lot of teenagers, Serena Woodall is still trying to work out what she wants to do as a career but she hopes a "once-in-a-lifetime" expedition to the Kermadec Islands next week will help point her in the right direction.

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  • Blake Inspire

    Yachting New Zealand are inviting youth sailors (Year 11–13) to apply to receive up to two scholarships to participate in the 2021 BLAKE Inspire programme.

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  • Tom Schnakenberg

    In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled It Takes a Village on March 3. 

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  • Lipton Cup

    Whether it was by cunning or cogency, no one is really sure, but the Ponsonby Cruising Club were given a magnificent trophy in 1920 that will be contested for the 100th time next month.

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  • Marcus Sommerville and Sam Street

    The strength and depth of the 49er fleet in this country has been known for some time but there's a burgeoning number of 49erFX sailors and that was no better illustrated than at the recent national championships.

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