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- The elusive match point for Emirtates Team New Zealand was again out of reach in San Francisco today.
- The Yachting New Zealand Selection Regulation for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team to attend the ISAF Youth World Sailing Championships is reviewed annually – policy for the selection of the 2014 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team is now available.
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- Sport NZ has just released a new resource called the Good Practice Principles for the Provision of Sport and Recreation for Young People. Anyone delivering, working-in, or planning sport programmes that involve young people will find this useful.
- The Stack Winter Champs 2013, which mark the end of winter training, and the official start of the summer season, include two days of high performance coaching, before the regatta begins. Youth sailors from all clubs are invited.
- With the summer approaching it is a good time of year to look at your yacht’s safety gear.
- Team Kiwi Gold (David Barnes, Rick Dodson and co) report on their last few days at the Sonar World Championships which came to a close on 22 September... Lots of rain and no wind stopped the Kiwi Gold Sailing Team getting any racing in on Saturday. Almost in direct reflection of the goings on In San Francisco with the AC34.
- Yachting New Zealand has launched a series of coaching resources videos which are now are live on youtube channel. There are 24 short video clips which cover a variety of skills taught at Learn to Sail, green and open fleet level. Tacking, sail trim, rules and launching are among the featured topics.
- Rules Forum with Doug Elder Thursday night YNZ hosted a rules forum with Doug Elder. The evening discussion was as a fantastic opportunity for the group of coaches and sailors to discuss some common rule breaches and get an insight into what the Judges are looking for when on the water.
