The Race Village in Alicante officially opens in one week from today (2 October) and the crews of the seven Volvo Ocean 65s are completing final preparations before the first In-Port Race on Saturday 4 October (0500 NZDT).

Collecting Gold, Silver, a bunch of top ten placings AND Olympic national qualification in all ten classes, the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup was a resounding success for the NZL Sailing Team. We enlisted talented photography team Sailing Energy to capture our team in action. Daily galleries from racing are on the NZL Sailing Team facebook page; here are some of our favourites…

Yachting New Zealand runs coaching courses throughout the winter months and we would like to congratulate a long list of participants who have recently gained or up-graded their coaching qualification.

The 60th Annual General Meeting of Yachting New Zealand is to be held at 10:45am on Saturday 11th October 2014. Venue: Hinton’s, 750a Wairakei Road, Christchurch

The 2014 International Federation for Disabled Sailing World championships were held in Halifax, Canada, from the 15th until the 24th of August.

‘Sailability’ at Seaview, Wellington was recently nominated for, and won the ‘Sports and Leisure’ category for the Hutt City Wellington Airport Awards.

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke ended the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain by winning the medal race in front of a massive crowd returning ashore to be presented their 49er crown which was in the bag before today’s race.

Today turned into a double-medal day for New Zealand at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have won silver at the 2014 Women’s 470 World Championships, relinquishing their title to Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar of Austria in today’s light wind medal race in Santander, Spain.

Tomorrow Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie will battle to defend their world title at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships drawing to a close in Santander, Spain. Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have two days remaining but continue to lead in the 49er. Both Andrew Murdoch and Josh Junior are into the top ten in the Finn class, as are multihull duo Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders.