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There's an email exchange between Peter Burling and Blair Tuke from 2008 sitting in the Maritime Museum that represents the start of one of the most successful partnerships in sailing history.

The highly anticipated 2021 Olympic Games are underway, and we've collated the sailing schedule so you can tune in from home, or your local yacht club! 

Competing at an Olympics is always special but this one feels even more unique for Alex Maloney and Molly Meech given the circumstances around the staging of these Tokyo Games.

It's appropriate the catamaran Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson sail is called Little Charger because nothing, it seems, is going to get in the way of them competing at the Tokyo Olympics - not even a broken leg.

Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox know that, no matter what happens over the next couple of weeks at these Olympic Games, this will probably be their last 470 regatta together.

Josh Junior doesn't need to look very far to be reminded of how significant it was for him to earn Olympic selection.

After months of uncertainty, the Olympics felt real again for Sam Meech yesterday when he walked into the boat park at the Enoshima Yacht Club.

The Yachting New Zealand windfoiling squad will make their first foray into international waters later this year and have a couple of fundraising events to help get them there.

In our regular focus on the regions, the four regional development managers look at what has been happening in their areas and also provide some advice on succession planning at your club.

Succession planning

The first race of the of the SSANZ Lewmar Triple Series got off to a spectacular start last weekend with 152 boats taking part in the Lewmar Triple Series 60.

Winter is the perfect time for clubs to be thinking about funding and the New Zealand Sports Foundation Charitable Trust have just launched BoostedSport, a new crowdfunding platform.

Napier turned on fine weather and light winds for the third regatta of the Elliott E5.9 Traveller Series which saw five different race winners across the 10 races completed.

You might not be able to travel to Japan to watch the upcoming Olympics but you can still catch all of the action on Sky.

The Waikawa Boating Club’s annual Wine Race from Marlborough to Wellington has been withdrawn from the racing calendar due to a lack of guaranteed overnight berths in Wellington.

We are pleased to announce the 2021 Voice of Participant survey is now open and invite members to have their say. 

I'd like to wish the entire New Zealand Olympic team, and especially the sailing team, the very best in Japan.

Yachting New Zealand have made the difficult decision to not send a team to December's Youth Sailing World Championships but will still select a team off the back of October's NZL Sailing Foundation Youth Championships.

The Olympics have played a large part in Tom Ashley’s life, firstly as a competitor and Olympic gold medallist, then as an international coach and now as a CEO of a national sporting organisation with high hopes of success in Tokyo.

His mother's 80th birthday celebrations was the impetus Andrew Ventura needed to sail solo halfway around the world last year and it was a journey packed with damages and drama but mostly delight even though he arrived late for the party.

Two divisions – fully crewed and two-handed – will take part in next year's Central Triangle, the first time the race has been contested since 2015.

Clubs are constantly looking at ways to fundraise and a simple idea from HRV can make money for your club and Yachting New Zealand.

In our regular focus on the regions, the four regional development managers look at what has been happening in their areas and also provide some advice on how members can access some of Yachting New Zealand's resources. 

They are the big boys of dinghy sailing, the powerhouses, and that's a large part of the reason why the New Zealand Finn Association is as strong as it ever has been in this country.

The Yachting New Zealand regional support officers have undergone a rebrand and will now be known as regional development managers.

Potential competitors are encouraged to sign up early when entries open on Sunday for November's much-anticipated RNZYS Three Kings Offshore Race. 

Yachting New Zealand will hold two free seminars in September for any national race officer looking to revalidate, or current club race officers looking to advance their skills.

Volvo are one of the biggest supporters of sailing and boating in this country and offer discounts of up to nine percent on new cars for Yachting New Zealand member card holders.

This weekend's third round of the Elliott 5.9 Travellers Series at the Napier Sailing Club will feature something a little different.

Few people have done as much in sailing as John Cutler.

The match racing season is approaching at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, when three major events will take place in a little over two months.

Susannah Pyatt wishes the mentorship programme initiated for young female coaches by Yachting New Zealand had been around when she was a young coach.

A number of boats will have unfinished business, which should ensure another healthy fleet competes in this year's PIC Coastal Classic.