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- 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.
- Registration for this season’s Aon National Youth Clinics closes tomorrow.
- Peter Burling and Blair Tuke ended the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain by winning the medal race in front of a massive crowd returning ashore to be presented their 49er crown which was in the bag before today’s race.
- The 2014 International Federation for Disabled Sailing World championships were held in Halifax, Canada, from the 15th until the 24th of August.
