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Kohimarama Yacht Club and MRX Yachting invite crews from your Club to compete in the 2014 FARR MRX Youth Pathway Challenge.

Choose New Zealand as your cruising destination with the ICA’s free ‘All Points Rally’ The All Points Rally is a free-to-enter, informal cruising rally to New Zealand, organised annually in conjunction with the Island Cruising Association (ICA).

The 71 competitors from 28 different nations had a long day waiting around the boat park in La Grande Motte when the wind refused to build enough to allow any completion on the first day of the Nacra 17 European Championships.

One week from now the first race of the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships will get underway with teams from around the globe descending upon Tavira, Portugal over coming days to prepare.

2014 marks the second ever 49erFX European Championship. The fleet is 50 boats strong this year and changing quickly. Unlike in 2013, most of the teams are now truly racing instead of just sailing, as the level of boathandling, boat set up and skiff IQ has increased massively.

Even on the brief evidence of the windy official practice races for the Nacra 17 European Championships Australia’s Olympic silver medal winning pair Darren Bundock and Nina Curtis are certainly among the favourites, even if they are not eligible for the European title.

Competing for New Zealand in the 29er skiff class at the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships are Isaac McHardie and Markus Somerville.

Both from the Napier Sailing Club Olivia Mackay and Abby Goodwin are an experienced and talented team that will represent New Zealand in the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team for the second consecutive year.

The 2014 RS:X European Open Championships are over for Natalia Kosinska who has finished in 12th overall sailing against the world’s best Olympic Women’s windsurfers in Cesme, Turkey.