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Thanks to Covid-19 more Kiwis are turning to their boats for holiday plans, and many haulouts and maintenance providers are already very busy. 

In this podcast we bring you a special edition on New Zealand’s great race. The Coastal Classic was first contested in 1982 and now attracts more than 150 boats for the annual blast up the coast from Auckland to the Bay of Islands.

The countdown is on to next year's 24-Hour Endurance Yacht Race in Wellington but the event has just celebrated the 'world premier' of the video of the 2020 edition.

If you've got a Wind Warrior in the garage, now is the time to dust it off, check the batteries and get it ready for next month's national championships at Westhaven Marina.

Graeme Sutherland has been trying to win the Yachting Developments New Zealand Match Racing Championships for a number of years and finally got the monkey off his back over the weekend.

New Zealand would have sent a strong team to this year's youth sailing world championships, judging by the quality of racing seen at the NZL Sailing Foundation Youth Championships.

It wasn't seven maids with seven mops who swept the beach but around 30 volunteers who recently spent the morning combing the foreshore area at Pigeon Bay and gathering a wide variety of rubbish and rusted iron, writes the Akaroa Mail.

There might not be the carrot of sailing at the youth worlds at the end of it but there will be no absence of spice at this week's NZL Sailing Foundation Youth Championships.

Members of the public have the opportunity to stand at the helm where Sir Peter Blake did on both Steinlager 2 and Lion New Zealand on a series of upcoming sailing journeys.