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- ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres has hit the mid way mark and many of the NZL Sailing Team continue to inch up the standings with Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, and Peter Burling and Blair Tuke leading the charge both now holding the overall lead.
- Register now for the YNZ Race Coach Course 24/25 May at Bucklands Beach Yacht Club.
- The 2014 Toyota National Optimist Championship final day was a real thriller on both open and green fleets.
- The NZL Sailing Team continued their good form into day two of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres Regatta where over 1100 Olympic class sailors from 59 nations are competing.
- At 1:00pm on Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, nineteen-year-old New Zealander Cory McLennan will make history by becoming the youngest person ever to attempt the Solo Trans-Tasman Challenge yacht race.
- Another breezy day on the open fleet with a peak of 23knots and good averages of around 17knots.
- The final regatta of the 2013-14 season of the ISAF Sailing World Cup is underway with great conditions for day one of racing in Hyeres, France today. The NZL Sailing Team has made a solid start leading in both the 49er and the Women’s RS:X, and lying 2nd in the Women’s 470.
- New Zealand has won a mass of medals at the RYA Youth National Championships Regatta which wrapped up on Friday 18th April in Weymouth, UK. The contingent of young kiwis collected one gold, two silver and two bronze medals across the range of skiff, double-handed and single-handed classes.
- A must have for any coach from Learn to Sail through to Olympic Coach. No coach should be on the water without their Wet notes and a pencil. “Food! Sunblock wet notes, compass, wind gauge, tide stick.” As quoted by Nathan Handley in the December Coaches update are the items he never goes on the water without.
