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Use our on-line event submission form to tell us about what’s coming up and we will include it in our calendar and future issues of Briefings. Here’s a snapshot…
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Yachting New Zealand’s Volvo Sailing…Have a Go! schools programme recently wrapped up its 10th season! During the 2015-2016 season…Check out this great Volvo Sailing… Have a Go! video which follows Northern Region Instructor Reuben Corbett on a typical day the office!
The annual South Island Regional Meeting is set to take place at the Christchurch Yacht Club on Saturday May 28th. The get together is a great opportunity to network with other South Island Clubs, exchange ideas and solutions.
Yachting New Zealand will be running seminars around the country over the winter to up skill our Race Officials. These seminars are free for all Yachting New Zealand affiliated Yacht Club members to attend.
- All PHRF certificates expire on 31 May 2016 – if you have a PHRF certificate it is time to revalidate now!
The NZ 420 Association are very pleased to be holding the 2016 420 Oceania Championship, with a training clinic beforehand, in New Zealand at Auckland’s Wakatere Boating Club over 5/6 June. The clinic and regatta is on the edge of the waters to be used later in the year for World Sailing’s 2016 Youth World Championship, which is being hosted by Yachting New Zealand.
Here is a great combined slide show and video clip about New Zealand’s mighty P-Class featuring images and footage from the 1920s to 2013.
15 minutes long, the clip has been assembled by class expert and historian Gun Caundle, from photos collected while researching for his book ‘Our Secret Weapon’, a history and stories about the P Class.
The second and final day of the first Para World Sailing equipment evaluation saw the Fraglia Vela Malcesine play host to more sailors testing proposed Paralympic equipment.
