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- Welcome to the home of sports – Athens, the capital city of Greece - for the ultimate day of the 2014 Open 470 European Championships. After 5 days of intense races in stunning sailing conditions, today the championship closed in to the critical double-points Medal Race to finalize the podium line-up for the Open European and European Championship titles.
- The NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team has ended the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships with a bronze medal and two more top eight performances.
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- Going into the final day of the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships three of the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team are within the top ten of their fleet with our 29er crew in good shape for a podium finish.
- The NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team was back in action today in Tavira, Portugal for day three of the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships.
- The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has been appointed by the VOR stop over managers Mayo and Limited (MAL) to conduct the race management and on water activities in co-operation with VOR, the Maritime Police, Harbour Master and Ports Authority.
- Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have taken the bronze medal at the 2014 Women’s 470 Open European Championships which wrapped up in Athens, Greece today.
- Yachting New Zealand is offering a workshop on Teams Sailing coaching, this is a four hour course spread over two weeknights in September. this course will be run by some of New Zealands top team sailing coaches and will cover a lot of information around teams sailing.
- In June I ran a match racing clinic out of the RNZYS using the Elliot 7meters, the clinic was for team Siesta, a Japanese Match racing team I have coached for the last 5 years. This was the second time the team had been to NZ, they competed in the 2009 NZ match racing nationals.
