This is Finn sailing at its most athletic and powerful best. There is raw power, consummate skill, intense competition and incredible boat handling – it is extreme Finn sailing in near extreme conditions from some of the best Finn sailors in the world; even some of the best athletes in the world.

In less than a month the cannons will fire for the Royal Akarana Yacht Club’s 22nd race to Fiji, ANZ Sail Fiji.

The 2014 Secondary School Team Sailing Nationals were held at Sandspit Yacht Club, Algies Bay. 32 teams entered and were seeded into three fleets, to sail a series of Round Robins on two courses, with repechages available to allow teams to progress up the point’s ladder.

Here’s a look at the up-coming Coach Courses on around the country over coming months. Click on the event title for more information on how to apply.

Here’s a look at the up-coming sailing related events around the country for the next couple of month. See the YNZ on-line calendar for full details of these events and those on beyond that. Are you organising an event you would like to see included? Don’t miss out on some free promotion for your sailing events by adding them to the YNZ on-line calendar here.

Yachting New Zealand will be running seminars around the country over the winter to up skill our Race Officials. These seminars are free for all Yachting New Zealand affiliated Yacht Club members to attend. We would like to invite all of our members to attend these seminars.

Alex Maloney and Molly Meech have won silver at 2014 Vela Garda Trentino – the opening 2014 EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup which has just wrapped up in Lake Garda, Italy.

SUSANNAH PYATT, JENNA HANSEN, CARLA HOLGATE AND RAYNOR HAAGH WIN THE 2014 NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIP TWO YEARS IN A ROW!

SUSANNAH PYATT, JENNA HANSEN, CARLA HOLGATE AND RAYNOR HAAGH LEAD AT THE CONCLUSION OF DAY ONE OF THE NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Finn Europeans ends with a blast in La Rochelle as Scott extends lead to 50 points Giles Scott (GBR) wrapped up the 2014 Finn Europeans in La Rochelle in the perfect way with a win in the medal race to take the championship by an impressive 50 point margin. The defending champion Vasilij Zbogar (SLO) took the silver, after a very close medal race, by just one point from Ed Wright (GBR).