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Yachting New Zealand have set up a Youth Regional Support Plan to help fund sailors to attend Aon national youth clinics in Auckland.

Entries are now open for October's NZL Sailing Foundation New Zealand Youth Championships and there will be a number of Aon youth clinics to get youth sailors race sharp.

Fitting the qualifiers in for the New Zealand Match Racing Championships is normally done with ease but a series of interruptions will now see it held at the end of September.

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have been breaking ground in women’s sailing in recent years and this has seen an increase in the number of females entering the Mastercard Youth Training Programme to the point it is close to a 50 percent gender split.

A fleet of Optimists is almost ready to be sent to the Va’vau Bluewater School in Neiafu, Tonga, but there's still one piece of the puzzle missing - the funds to ship the container to Tonga.

Last year's Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships in Auckland is a finalist in the 2020 New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards.

It might not have been the freedom we enjoyed under alert level 1, and I know many in the Auckland area will be disappointed, but it is still worth celebrating that we can all go sailing and boating again from next Monday and that events, if managed well, can go ahead.

Ross Whitburn doesn't mind admitting he might have had a little moisture in his eye last season and it wasn't because of any irritating dust that might have blown down the Otago Harbour.

Sally Garrett is best known for her exploits in short-handed sailing, being the only woman to have competed in two Round New Zealand races, and she’s also sailed in three Round North Island races.