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  • Bay Week

    Keelboat owners heading to CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week in January 2020 are being encouraged to get IRC certificates, as the event prepares to host the IRC nationals for what could be the last time.

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  • Mixed 470 clinic

    Mixed sailing will be a major component of the Olympics from 2024, prompting Yachting New Zealand to hold a mixed 470 clinic this week with a handful of this country's top sailors.

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  • Worser Bay Boating Club

    The 2019 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards are just around the corner and some winners have already been announced. In the second of a three-part series, meet the winners in the service category as well as the cruising award.

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  • Hal Wagstaff

    There will be something, or more accurately someone, missing from this weekend's Yachting New Zealand annual general meeting and it won't feel the same.

    Hal Wagstaff passed away recently aged 88 after a short stay in North Shore Hospital.

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  • Knots Racing

    It was a case of the master against the apprentice in the final of the Yachting Developments New Zealand Match Racing Championship and the young upstart took the title in brutally light conditions.

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  • HPSNZ

    Sam Meech dreads the moment the door to the heat chamber is closed - he knows it’s going to be hot and it’s probably going to hurt – but also realises it could be the difference when next year’s Olympics roll around.

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