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Yachting New Zealand have thrown their support behind a group who plan to protest a council proposal to extend Queen's Wharf by 90m.
The JJ Giltinans will feel a bit different this year, with a New Zealand team going in as defending champions for the first time in nearly 50 years, and there's hope another victory will see the regatta come to these shores.
Five days a week the ferry arrives from Auckland at Great Barrier Island. It's not normally a big deal - it's part of life on the island perched off the top of the Coromandel Peninsula - but today's cargo was something a bunch of school kids were eagerly awaiting.
The depth of 49er racing in this country was illustrated during the national championships at the weekend as Logan Dunning Beck and Oscar Gunn retained their title at the Murrays Bay Sailing Club.
"It was epic, absolutely epic," Darryl Honey enthused when reflecting on the inaugural foiling week in the Bay of Islands which finished up yesterday.
Sailors aged 15 to 76 will descend on Tauranga this weekend to compete in the upcoming Zephyr national championships.
As many as 60 entries are expected at the Tauranga Yacht & Power Boat Club, eclipsing the 46 the last time the event was held in Tauranga in 2015.
Szabolcs Majthenyi and András Domokos confirmed their status as the world's best Flying Dutchman sailors when they won their 13th title in Nelson yesterday.
Past and present world champions and medallists litter the latest Aon Fast Track squad which was announced in Auckland today.
It's been 377 years since Abel Tasman brought his ships for a fleeting visit to the top of the south. This week, another fleet of Dutch origin descended on the region, writes Tim O'Connell of stuff.co.nz.
