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In the lead up to the 2015 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards, on in Auckland on 27 November, we bring you a feature on each of the ten 2015 Service Award winners. Today we focus on Matt Hall-Smith.
In the lead up to the 2015 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards, on in Auckland on 27 November, we bring you a feature on each of the ten 2015 Service Award winners. Today we focus on Merlin Caskie.
To help plan you plan your upcoming sailing season, I have compiled a list of most local and some International regattas for the Hansa Class that New Zealand sailors are likely to attend.
French Bay Yacht Club recently held its Open Day on Saturday the 31st October. They seem to get it right at French Bay with a fine day and fresh south westerly breeze.
Sam Meech finished ISAF Sailing World Cup Final 8th overall, and the best placed of the four-strong NZL Sailing Team contingent in Abu Dhabi this weekend.
The regatta wrapped up on 1 November in the United Arab Emirates, with kiwis Sam Meech and Mike Bullot lining up for the Laser medal race.
With a summer season of sailing stretching out in front of us, and the first regatta at Lake Ngaroto less than a week away, it is looking like it will be a great season.
Yachting New Zealand is delighted to announce that in 2015 two women, Jan Dawson and Adrienne Greenwood, will be awarded Life Membership of Yachting New Zealand. Both passionate about yachting Adrienne and Jan have served in governance and management for Yachting New Zealand each accumulating years of contribution.
Yachting New Zealand has two new Board Directors in Angus Haslett and Jenny de Lisle.
A good fleet of 21 P-class fronted up at the Bay of Islands Yacht Club to contest the2015 P Class North Island Championships. The seven race regatta was held over Labour weekend. After registration on Saturday morning the fleet was out to the race track in the drizzly northerly conditions. Francesco Kayrouz (WBC) was off to a good start with a couple of wins in the first two races, Henry Wilson (MBSC) and the local boy James Sheldon( BOIYC) were keeping the game pretty close.
