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- Racing for ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne 2014 wrapped up over the weekend on Port Philip Bay with three podium finishes for New Zealand sailors across the Paralympic and Olympic classes.
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club is seeking a Club Manager to help develop the club by promoting activities, membership and participation, while ensuring the financial profitability of the club.
- Ensuring that your on board safety equipment is in correct working order is paramount and with many yachties and boaties heading out on the water in the warmer weather now is the time to give everything a thorough check. Yachting New Zealand asks that you take some extra time to ensure your man overboard lights are working correctly.
- Our Secret Weapon, a book about the history of the P Class, was published recently. Written by Gun Caundle, an ex-low ranking P Daddy, the book is divided into eras that describe a significant aspect of P Class history: how it was born, its development through the decades and how technology was adopted to prevent it from dying, and the origins of the coveted Tanner and Tauranga Cups.
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- High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has announced today that Yachting New Zealand’s High Performance Programme will receive a financial boost in the two years leading into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
- The Volvo Sailing… Have a Go! programme gives people the opportunity to experience the thrills and spills of sailing in a safe and well managed environment and most importantly, have fun! The programme has teamed up with the 2015 Auckland Volvo Ocean Race Stop Over with race village visitors having the opportunity to sail one of four Topper Omega yachts within the Race Village, and learn the basics, all for free!
- The Notice of Race for the 2015 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship that will be held in Langkawi, Malaysia from 27 December 2015 to 3 January 2016 has been released.
- A new range of interactive cruising guide apps for iPad has just been launched by the Island Cruising Association (ICA). The Sail Fiji cruising guides are the first of their kind – a new breed of up-to-date digital navigational aids that allow blue water sailors to “Cruise with Confidence”.
