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- AWSS organisers invite all Optimist Sailors from Auckland to prepare for the Summer Season and join the final AWSS day at KYC on Saturday 22nd September 2012 ready for a 1pm Race Start.
- New Zealand has over 120 Yacht Clubs, yet the country’s first women to win a gold medal in dinghy sailing, Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie, both started their sailing careers and first met at Kohimarama Yacht Club.
- Here’s a look at the up-coming training opportunities o the month of October. Check out what’s on in October and beyond in the Yachting New Zealand on-line calendar.
- Here’s a look at the up-coming sailing events around the country for the month of October.
- Six weeks out from the Coastal Classic we look at some of the new and notable boats likely to grace the fleet for the great race north.
- New Zealand match racing team FMJ Racing - Will Tiller, Brad Farrand, Harry Thurston and Jono Spurdle - have taken out the Oakcliff Invitational in Oyster Bay to win the last two events on the Grand Slam Series.
- Youth sailors are encouraged to register now for Yachting New Zealand’s popular National Youth Clinics.
- Regional Sports Associations in both Auckland and Waikato are currently calling for nominations for their respective annual Sports Awards…
- NZ was well represented at the London 2012 Paralympic Sailing competition and the outcomes of this event were much more significant than just final results; the three sailors were ground breakers in the modern New Zealand sailing community with regards to inclusion of sailors with a disability. Not only were they the first sailors to represent NZ at this level in twelve years, but Jan was the first female, and together they represented a paradigm shift in the NZL Sailing Team in terms of Paralympic inclusion high performance programmes.
