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Royal Akarana Yacht Club’s 22nd race to Fiji, ANZ Sail Fiji, got underway this morning at 1300 hours on a perfect, yet slightly overcast day in Auckland.

At 1300 hours today, Saturday 7 June 2014, Royal Akarana Yacht Club will star their 22nd race to Fiji, ANZ Sail Fiji.

Next week New Zealand’s best Olympic single-handed sailors will line up to contest the 2014 European Laser Standard and Laser Radial Championships. The regatta, being held in Split, Croatia, is expected to attract large fleets including a full complement of the world’s best in the Olympic single-handed dinghy disciplines for both men and women.

Ali Nightingale is a 16 year old from Charteris Bay in Canterbury who will represent New Zealand in the Girl’s Laser Radial at this year’s ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships in Portugal.

Getting funding for sports is never an easy task and when faced with a shortfall leading into the ISAF worlds Infinity Racing had to change tack and come up with a more cost effective way to make this event still happen!

Yachting New Zealand was saddened to learn that Tauranga based Yacht Inspector Murray Crapp passed away suddenly last Saturday while working on his own boat.

With the Inter Marina MRX Sailing Challenge just finished we now have the chance to recap on the season just been, get on with our winter maintenance and begin planning for 2014 / 2015 – which is already filling up.

Cruise Rally Drama / Brothers Race Together

Trent Rippey is a returning NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team member from 2012 when he competed in the 29er class as helmsman. The 17 year old, who hails from Tauranga earned his place in this year’s team after placing 1st youth at the 2014 Laser Radial National Championships and 1st New Zealand youth at Oceanbridge Sail Auckland. At this year’s RYA Youth Nationals he scooped the silver medal in the boy’s Laser radial division.