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SailGP is coming to New Zealand, with Christchurch announced as the venue to host this country's first grand prix event in January 2022.
It is a significant coup for the south, with racing due to take place on Lyttelton Harbour on January 29-30, 2022.
Applications are now open for the 2021 season of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s world-renowned Mastercard Youth Training Programme.
Clubs around the country are looking for experienced coaches as they look to continue to grow their learn to sail programmes.
The club's annual classic yacht race and display will be a highlight of the Pleasant Point Yacht Club's centennial celebrations over Waitangi weekend, especially as a special yacht will be present.
The Pleasant Point Yacht Club showed off their new facilities when hosting the recent Burnsco Sunburst national championships and it is also believed to be the first nationals on the Christchurch estuary since the Zephyrs raced there in 1989.
The future of yachting begins in junior classes and the recent 2021 NZIODA North Island clinic certainly showed the future is bright.
Aaron Young had a desire to advance the quality of club racing in New Zealand, which led him to impulse-buy a 40-foot carbon canting keeler from Europe within 72 hours of hearing about it and then persuading three mates to do the same.
American Magic are expected to be back out on the water tomorrow and it's taken a massive effort from all of the teams and the wider New Zealand maritime community to make it happen.
A change to the harbour course for keelboats will give participating sailors a new challenge, and spectators a different view, for Monday's Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta.
