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- Back in January Gemma [Jones] and I decided to team up in the exciting new Olympic class catamaran called the Nacra 17, with Gemma helming and myself crewing. The class is a mixed combination, where a girl and a guy sail together, deciding between themselves who is helming and crewing. The Nacra 17 is a brand new class designed specifically for the Olympics, and with the help of some cool design ideas, is the fastest on the circuit!
- RNZYS Auckland to Musket Cove, Fiji Race - Projections and Predictions with PredictWind.com
- The Starling Class Association is seeking expressions of interest from Clubs in the lower half of the North Island to host the 2015 Starling National Championships.
Following a dismasting in March, TeamVodafoneSailing is back and almost ready to roll into the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's Auckland to Musket Cove, Fiji Race starting this Saturday.
- Final days are always difficult for organisers and competitors alike but the final day of the Finn World Masters in La Rochelle was made more difficult by the strong winds and early rain showers that swept through the area.
- The 2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta (EUROSAF Event 2) has just finished here in Medemblik, Holland. We had very cold, wet, and predominantly windy conditions over the five days of racing. Most days were somewhere between 6-10 degrees, with rain on and off. It was hard to keep the feeling in your fingers!
- The NZL Sailing Team is back on the podium collecting three medals today in Medemblik, the Netherlands at 2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta. It is gold for Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, silver for Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox and bronze for Andy Maloney at round two of the inaugural EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup Series.
- With the penultimate day of the series done, four NZL Sailing Team crews have made the medal race cut at 2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta, round two of the EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup series being sailed in Medemblik, the Netherlands.
- A new Class Association has been formed in New Zealand to support the Olympic multihull catamaran – the Nacra 17. The Nacra 17 multihull yacht has been introduced to the Olympic Games as a mixed gender (one female and one male crew) event and will be contested for the first time in Rio 2016.
