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The busy 2011/2012 season for YNZ’s Sailing..... Have A Go! schools programme has come to an successful close

Twelve-year-old Ben Crane of took part in YNZ’s Sailing...Have a Go! programme with his school (Central School, New Plymouth) earlier this season and was hooked right away.

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The Wanaka Yacht Club hosted the third of Yachting New Zealand’s Paralympic classes development clinis in late April, attended by eight sailors from Queenstown, TeAnau, Auckland, Christchurch and a handful of local sailors from Wanaka.

The annual Otago Optimist Sumer series has come to a conclusion after seven races held by six yacht clubs were run in Dunedin. 

The annual Otago Optimist Sumer series has come to a conclusion after seven races held by six yacht clubs were run in Dunedin. 

Seventeen kiwi sailors are in Hyères, France to represent New Zealand at the 2012 Semaine Olympique Francaise Regatta for Olympic class sailors.

Yachting New Zealand is pleased to announce the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team for 2012.

If you would like to support yachting in New Zealand, and the work of Yachting New Zealand, we invite you to affiliate your Club.

Both of the NZL Sailing Team’s medal race starters have completed their regattas to finish fifth overall at the 43rd Trofeo S.A.R Princess Sofia Mapfre Regatta.

The Sir Peter Blake MERC 2012 “Sea Around Us” Winter Lecture Series are about to begin again.

Great news, the final results for the 2011 New Year Regatta are now in! Well done to everyone who participated and congratulations to the finalists. You can access the results using the links below.

The NZL Sailing Team are in Europe with three world championship regattas underway, and three more about to begin.

The NZL Sailing Team produced results to remember overnight, lead by Andy Maloney’s bronze medal finish at the 2012 Laser World Championships in Germany.

Josh Porebski and Trent Rippey are aiming to recapture some of the form they showed at the start of last year when they hit the 49er racing circuit again.

The first members of an expected 200-strong New Zealand Olympic Team were named today.

The final races of the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships saw the NZL Sailing team bring home three medals.

Yachting New Zealand (YNZ) feels it is timely to reiterate its position on aquaculture development.