Volvo National Sailing Day is a nationwide initiative for all of New Zealand to showcase and celebrate sailing. Happening when? Sunday, 16th February 2014 Happening where? At Yacht Clubs across New Zealand

Tomorrow is the day. The last day of the 34th America’s Cup. After 18 races the two teams are on eight points and tomorrow will race on San Francisco Bay for the 9th point – the one that will win them the America’s Cup.

Northland and Auckland Yacht Club members have an opportunity to meet Yachting New Zealand Chief Executive David Abercrombie. David will attend three up-coming meetings and extends an invitation to all local club members for a question and answer session, to discuss the new strategic plan that we hope will guide Yachting New Zealand and our Clubs for the next four years and beyond.

The 2013 49er and 49erFX World Championships are underway in Marseille, France. With day one of six completed the young NZL Sailing Team crew of Marcus Hansen and Josh Porebski has had a dream start and they share the lead after two bullets today.

Here’s a look at the up-coming sailing related events around the country for the next couple of weeks. See the YNZ on-line calendar for full details of these events and those on beyond that.

The elusive match point for Emirtates Team New Zealand was again out of reach in San Francisco today.

The Yachting New Zealand Selection Regulation for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team to attend the ISAF Youth World Sailing Championships is reviewed annually – policy for the selection of the 2014 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team is now available.

Want to get out on the water this summer and give sailing a go? Check out Richmond Yacht Club's Friday Night Special Series.

Many of our yacht clubs operate slipways. Slipways, when not operated correctly can be dangerous. As a result of an incident on Auckland’s North Shore earlier this year, where three people were badly hurt, Maritime New Zealand have release a list of recommendations about safe management of slipways. Clubs should read the following story and ensure that their procedure take in to account the recommendations.

Sport NZ has just released a new resource called the Good Practice Principles for the Provision of Sport and Recreation for Young People. Anyone delivering, working-in, or planning sport programmes that involve young people will find this useful.