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Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron Youth Training Programme Graduate Adam Minoprio, is a past ISAF Match Racing World Champion on the 2009 World Match Racing Tour but hasn’t sailed a regatta this year. Today he made an emphatic statement on his return to the helm.
Final results are in after four days of racing at the 2015 Yachting New Zealand Youth Trials.
Hosted at the fabulous new Murrays Bay Sailing Club house with racing off the east coast bays the regatta attracted the nation’s best campaigners in the youth classes all vying for selection into the 2015 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team.
Otis Horne (19), a sailor from Hastings, is a finalist in the Courage in Sport category in the 2015 Attitude Awards. The national awards celebrate the excellence and achievements of Kiwis with a disability.
The 2014-15 year was another successful one for BoPSAT. Highlights included:
“It won’t work wet” is the message behind 10,000 waterproof cellphone bags being given out to boaties this summer.
The 2015 Yachting New Zealand Youth Trials are on now at Murrays Bay Sailing Club.
Haifa, Israel will play host to the world’s best Olympic 470 class sailors this month, including NZL Sailing Team crews Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, and Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox.
Yachting New Zealand’s Annual General Meeting is on next week in Auckland and delegate proxy forms must be received from affiliated clubs by Yachting New Zealand two days in advance.
