One of the largest regattas in Australia Sail Sydney is six days of high class, high adrenaline racing for all dinghy classes. Against the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, hundreds of competitors from around Australia and around the world will race in this ISAF graded event.

We have mixed emotions about our time in Helsinki. A week on from the 2014 Europeans the dust has settled, and we are able to see our strengths and weaknesses more clearly - our performance over the competition had its highs and lows, but we are happy with a 3rd place.

Kiwi SKUD Sailing crew of Tim Dempsey and Gemma Fletcher are in the final build-up to the SKUD World Championships on the campaign trail towards the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Andre Budzien (GER), the 2012 World Champion leads Greg Wilcox (NZL) the 2002 World Champion and Bo Petersen (DEN) the defending European champion after the first two races at the 2014 OK Dinghy European Championship in Steinhude, Germany.

On Sunday the 6th of July, Royal Akarana Yacht Club hosted an intimate get together of old friends from the sailing circle to celebrate the birthday of Bill Hursthouse. Bill turned 100 on the 10th of July. Rob Heath gave an excellent speech about Bill’s background in sailing and reminded everyone he started sailing at York Bay Wellington and finished with an appearance at the Worlds sailed from Royal Akarana Yacht Club in 2005, about 87 years later.

16 boats contested the 2014 Opua round of the Elliott 5.9 Traveler Series - hosted by the always welcoming Opua Cruising Club. Catch up on this event and all the latest news from the Elliott 5.9 Class in this article...

Welcome to the home of sports – Athens, the capital city of Greece - for the ultimate day of the 2014 Open 470 European Championships. After 5 days of intense races in stunning sailing conditions, today the championship closed in to the critical double-points Medal Race to finalize the podium line-up for the Open European and European Championship titles.

Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders, the NZL Sailing Team’s Nacra 17 multihull team were in La Grande Motte, France recently for the 2014 Nacra 17 European Championship.

The NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team has ended the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships with a bronze medal and two more top eight performances.

With AGM season underway please remember to send us any changes to Committees and Contacts at your club or association so we can continue to communicate effectively with you all.