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Beau Geste and JustADash have cleaned up Division 1 and 2 respectively at the 39th Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club, each winning all three races.  

RNZYS Youth Training Programme Graduate and recent WMRT tour card recipient Chris Steele will be joined by a crew from the RNZYS’ newly formed Performance Programme (PP) for this week’s Extreme Sailing SeriesTM Act in Sydney. 

The first day of racing for the Sailing World Cup Final in Melbourne kicked off today with 17 New Zealander’s competing across seven classes from the St Kilda Sailing Precinct.

Waiake Beach on Auckland’s North Shore will be transformed into a vibrant sailing race village as hundreds of young sailors from across the globe converge in New Zealand for the 2016 Aon Youth World Sailing Championships from 14-20 December. 

Maritime NZ has launched a national lifejacket promotion “Nobody’s faster than disaster”, with national retailer Rebel Sport, to get more Kiwi boaties into the “best survival gear you can wear on a boat - your lifejacket,” said Director Keith Manch today.

The annual Sir Peter Blake Torbay Regatta has wrapped up for another year, finishing off with an outstanding day on the water. Torbay Sailing Club put on a great show for visiting sailors who travelled from Samoa, Australia, Singapore and across New Zealand to attend the annual event.

Royal Akarana Yacht Club is about to undertake one of the biggest changes of its 121 year history. Once a freestanding yacht club, like thousands of others around the world, RAYC was stuck in a rut, determined to maintain the way of life it knew and trusted for generations.

On Saturday 19th November 2016, members of RAYC were given the opportunity to kick off the demolition of the current building.

The annual Sir Peter Blake Torbay Regatta reached a record number of entries with over 450 boats entered into the event. The largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere.