Racing is underway at the European Championships for the Olympic 49er and 49erFX skiffs (in Helsinki) and also for the Olympic Nacra 17 multihull (in La Grande Motte).

If the loss of the first day of racing at the Nacra 17 European Championships due to too little wind was the price to be paid in order to have great Mistral conditions today off La Grande Motte then many of the 71 competing crews would accept that as a worthwhile tax. Today’s payback was a cross offshore, NW’ly Mistral averaging 17to 19kts but up to 23kts at times which was peppered with lighter holes and big shifts in direction creating a spectacular opening to the regatta.

Helsinki, Finland - Day 1 - 2014 Seiko 49er & 49erFX European Championship

Yachting New Zealand’s June Commodores’ Conference held in Auckland was attended by a representative from over 70 member clubs around New Zealand. An electronic Handbook from the Conference has been compiled and is now available for download here from the Yachting New Zealand website.

Peter Graham, from the Port Chalmers Yacht Club, was the instigator of the successful Otago Optimist Summer Series (OOSS) now in its third year.

In June at 15 years of age Dylan became the youngest ever sailor to be named Otago Yachtsperson of the year. Dylan Edwards is a Kings High School pupil and member of Macandrew Bay Boating Club. Some of his achievements this year are listed below.

The Stewart 34 Association would like to invite young sailors, parents and guardians to experience the pleasures of sailing a Stewart 34.

Kohimarama Yacht Club and MRX Yachting invite crews from your Club to compete in the 2014 FARR MRX Youth Pathway Challenge.

Choose New Zealand as your cruising destination with the ICA’s free ‘All Points Rally’ The All Points Rally is a free-to-enter, informal cruising rally to New Zealand, organised annually in conjunction with the Island Cruising Association (ICA).

Do you have the Yachting New Zealand Annual General Meeting in your diary and on the Club Calendar?