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The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron are hosting the open and women's national keelboat championships later in the year when the best crews in the country will battle it out for top honours.

Yachting New Zealand have expanded their sustainability education programme with a series of teaching resources aimed at young sailors.

Yachting New Zealand are presently asking for membership data as part of the affiliation process and we thought it would be useful to let you know why we require the information and what it is used for.

There's still a long way to go but optimism is building around windfoiling in this country and that took another step recently with the advent of a Yachting New Zealand development squad.

The Pleasant Point Yacht Club will celebrate 100 years of sailing on the Christchurch Estuary next February and are looking to make contact with previous members and invite them to the club's centennial celebrations.

Rosie Chapman sees a lot of potential in female sailing in this country and her focus is now on harnessing that.

The 2021 Bay of Islands Sailing Week will be refocusing on the needs of its core big boat fleets as organisers begin the task of planning for January's four-day regatta.

Aaron McIntosh has worn a series of different hats throughout his career, as a sailor, coach and advocate. As an athlete, he won three windsurfing world titles in the 1990s and went on to win bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

More than 70 boats from Pied Pipers through to TP52s have already entered the Lewmar Triple Series as the thirst for short-handed racing continues following lockdown.