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- The Race Coach course focuses on developing skills to coach groups learning to race, and also sailors moving up from learn-to-sail syllabus (green fleet).
- New Zealand’s Markus Sommerville and Jack Simpson have won the 29er division at the 2013 RYA Youth National Championships which wrapped up on April 5th in Largs, Scotland. The victory bodes well for Markus and Jack, both Wakatere Boating Club sailors, who have been selected to represent New Zealand in the 29er at the 2013 ISAF Sailing Youth World Championships on in July in Cyprus, and were using this regatta as a lead-up event.
- Onerahi Yacht Club hosted the Northland Yachting Association Laser and P Class Championships over the weekend of 6th- 7th April. The regatta was also used for the Onerahi Club Champs and the last regatta in the Heart Land Series.
- The fourth Reel Brazil Film Festival in Auckland (18-28 April) and Wellington (02-12 May) will feature a documentary which took ten years to be filmed and is about a Brazilian family's round the world trip sailing. The youngest sailor on the Schürmann family’s round the world journey is five year old, New Zealand born, Kat. She’s a very little girl who gets a very big education: learning hula in Tahiti, horse-riding in Chile, tramping in the frozen desert wilds of Patagonia, while living on board the boat with her family.
- Bay of Islands Sailing Week organisers have advised that dates are set for 2014… so mark your diary!
- Unseasonably warm conditions greeted the 168 sailors who attended the 2013 Toyota Opti Nationals in Timaru over Easter, and although some of the sailors would have wished for more breeze, the local race committee, headed by Les Baker did a fine job of getting away eight good races in the breeze that was available.
- An awesome week of sailing at the 2013 ISAF World Cup event here in Palma has just wrapped up. We were greeted with some great conditions over the course of the regatta, with a range of breeze including some windy days with huge waves making for exciting racing!
- New Zealand has won three medals at ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma – the first of the major European World Cup Regattas. Gold to Andy Maloney in the Laser, Silver to Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech in the 49erFX and Bronze to Sam Meech also in the Laser.
- With one day to go at ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma New Zealand has five crews set to line up in the medal races. The best placed of the kiwis are 49erFX skiff sailors Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech who have regained 2nd place in the hotly contested fleet which attracted 34 entries in Palma.
