With less than two weeks until racing starts at the ISAF Youth World Sailing Championships in Malaysia the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team are packing their bags and in the final countdown.
Have you decided what your Club will be doing for 2016 Volvo National Sailing and Boating Week? We have opened on-line club registration and I encourage you to get signed up and let us know what you have planned so we can help promote your activities.
Great news… Aon New Zealand has extended their suite of insurance offerings tailor made for New Zealand yachties and boaties. Aon has just launched its very own comprehensive dinghy and tender insurance offering through Vero Marine.
With the end of the school year comes the end of the Volvo Sailing…Have a Go! programme for term 4, and what a successful term it has been! Yachting New Zealand’s national participation initiative has given 1435 students from 47 schools across the country an opportunity to experience sailing.
Just before you start your Christmas holidays, it’s time to begin planning your entry for the 2016 NZ Women’s Keelboat National Championships.
The Ponsonby Cruising Club is excited to announce the arrival of five new additions to the Sailing School fleet. They are the result of proceeds of two fund raising Art Exhibitions and a very generous private donation.
Tauranga Yacht and Powerboat Club are offering a number of Dinghy Sailing Courses over the coming months and they’re open to children of all sailing levels with beginners welcome.
New Zealand opened the 2015-16 ISAF Sailing World Cup Series with a four medal haul at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne which wrapped up over the weekend.
In July this year, the General Assembly of the International 420 Class Association (held in Karatsu, Japan), announced that the Fremantle Sailing Club had won the bid to host the 2017 International 420 Class World, Ladies World and U17 World Championships.
Yachting New Zealand Safety and Technical Officer wants to let owners of boats that hold safety category 2 & 3 certificates, and those that are intending undergoing a category 1 inspection, that there has been an amendment to the Safety Regulations of Sailing 2013 – 2016 as follows;
