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- Hopefully you have seen a little of how our World Champs in Santander went, we tried to keep the old Facebook updates coming through.. As annoying a website as it is, its rather handy for quick and easy updates and photo shares!
- Four entries so far, the first entry from Georgia, well done Georgia. More coming in as we speak. Please do get your entries in to make it fun checking out the competitors. Four entries for the Millennium Cup so far - also looking good.
- The pinnacle event of 2014 was a unique one – the ISAF Sailing World Championships, an event that all the Olympic classes come together for once every four years. It marks the end of the season with most countries taking a small break after the event, before planning and getting stuck into training for the regattas towards the end of the year that lead into 2015. On top of everyone fighting to become World Champion across the ten Olympic Classes, they were also racing to secure their Nation a berth at the 2016 Olympic Games.
- The Race Village in Alicante officially opens in one week from today (2 October) and the crews of the seven Volvo Ocean 65s are completing final preparations before the first In-Port Race on Saturday 4 October (0500 NZDT).
- Yachting New Zealand runs coaching courses throughout the winter months and we would like to congratulate a long list of participants who have recently gained or up-graded their coaching qualification.
- Collecting Gold, Silver, a bunch of top ten placings AND Olympic national qualification in all ten classes, the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup was a resounding success for the NZL Sailing Team. We enlisted talented photography team Sailing Energy to capture our team in action. Daily galleries from racing are on the NZL Sailing Team facebook page; here are some of our favourites…
- The 60th Annual General Meeting of Yachting New Zealand is to be held at 10:45am on Saturday 11th October 2014. Venue: Hinton’s, 750a Wairakei Road, Christchurch
I have been facilitating a few coaches’ courses over the last couple of months,
Something that keeps coming up and that I believe is very important to being a successful coach is preseason planing, goal setting and creating the right learning environment.- Sailing will feature heavily at this year’s Auckland On Water Boat Show on at Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour from 25th – 28th September 2014.
