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In our regular focus on the regions, the regional support officers provide an update on what is happening in clubland.

Nelson Yacht Club

Aon New Zealand are big supporters of Yachting New Zealand and have a new contact for clubs and boat owners following the departure of Sam Gunn.

The Richmond Yacht Club are preparing for their 22nd season of their Friday Night Special series, which is a great chance for inexperienced adults to enjoy a series of eight social races on eight different yachts throughout the summer.

It was a chance meeting Sara Poore had during rum racing one day that sowed the seeds for change at the Bucklands Beach Yacht Club. 

Nathan Outteridge is one of the world's top sailors, having been an Olympic 49er champion and four-time world champion, skipper of two America’s Cup campaigns and now skipper and chief executive of the Japan SailGP team.

More than 200 sailors from over 20 clubs are expected to converge on Wellington for four days of events at February's 2021 Port Nicholson Regatta.

There are chasers and beaters and even a golden snitch and, just like the version in the Harry Potter books, is a game that is catching on.

Any decisions to hold club events or regattas in this Covid world we currently occupy need to be made by the club.

Four of the team had won the title before but Samantha Norman and her crew said the weekend's triumph at the 2020 NZ Women’s Match Racing Championships was the most fun racing they had ever been involved in.