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- Emirates Team New Zealand went on the offensive at the Extreme Sailing Series’ St Petersburg regatta today.
- Conditions on the third day at St Petersburg were a complete turn around from the previous light-air days.
Emirates Team New Zealand America’s Cup wing trimmer Glenn Ashby has won the European A Class catamaran championships just completed in France. He won eight of the nine races in which he started. With his win secure, he did not compete in the 10th race.
- With the 2014 RS:X European Champs about to get underway in Cesme, Turkey, where NZL Sailing Team’s Natalia Kosinska and youth men’s rider Alex Hart will start racing tomorrow. Coach Dave Robertson reports in…
- Sailing joins 27 other sports codes as one of 28 announced as an ‘Official Sport’ of World Masters Games 2017.
- The Extreme Sailing Series' St Petersburg regatta kicked off on the River Neva today in typical fashion - tight racing on a confined and tricky race area where again consistency was king.
- The Young Challenger’s Cup is a youth focused sailing event. It involves yacht clubs from around New Zealand putting forward a team of four sailors between the ages of 12 and 17 to battle with 15 other teams for the Young Challenger’s Cup trophy.
- Testing conditions on practice day at the St Petersburg Extreme Sailing Series Regatta had crews battling massive wind shifts and a 4-knot current across the River Neva course.
- Emirates Team New Zealand chairman Dr Keith Turner says the team has now reached the point where it has the confidence to mount a challenge for the 35th America’s Cup. The team has secured sufficient private and sponsorship funding to proceed to the next stage without needing Government funding during this period.
