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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.

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.

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.

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.

The 2020 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards are just around the corner and some winners have already

In a few years from now, people will scan the results from the 2020 PIC's Peanut Butter Starling national championships at the Nelson Yacht Club and not appreciate the full story - because there was quite the back story.

Sam Meech admits he found it strange having people to talk to during racing for a change but it certainly didn't hold him back from steering his team to the 2020 Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championship title in Auckland over the weekend.