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Sam Meech emerged from a star-studded field to lead the standings after the first event in the New Zealand Moth class winter sprints at the Manly Sailing Club last weekend.

At least 30 entries, including the country's top Laser Radial sailors, are expected to compete at next month's Winter Breakout regatta at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club.

The strength of the overall squad has seen the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron decide to enter two teams in next year’s Youth America’s Cup event in Auckland.

Mattias Coutts teamed up with Cailen Rochford recently to finish on top of a top-class fleet of 40 boats at the 29er national championships in the Bay of Islands.

Barbara Kendall is the rainbow girl of New Zealand sailing, collecting the full range of Olympic medals during an illustrious career, and she's also the only Kiwi woman to win medals at three consecutive Olympics and only New Zealand female to go to fiv

There is still over two months until the 2020 Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championships, but it is already looking to be the best chapter in the event's history with a raft of big names already populating the 11-strong entry list.

Sam Meech should have been in the final throes of preparation for the Tokyo Olympics but the countdown clock has been reset due to Covid-19 and he's looking to make the most of it.

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Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club are running their Frostbite Junior & Youth regatta on Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th September 2020 as a replacement for the cancelled AIMS Games sailing regatta.

Mattias Coutts and Cailen Rochford emerged from a strong field of 40 boats at the 29er national championships in the Bay of Islands.

NZTSA is the governing body for Team Sailing in New Zealand.

Bluebridge ferries are sailing again on their full winter schedule, which means they're back to 50 sailings a week from downtown Wellington to the Sounds (and back).

Harold Bennett is best known for being the principal race officer for five America’s Cup between 2000 and 2013.

The Young 88 fleet provided some of the most exciting racing in last weekend's first race of the Lewmar Triple Series, with the first three boats finishing within 38 seconds of each other after nearly 10 hours on the water.

The Youth America's Cup has come at the perfect time for a bunch of young sailors whose plans have been thrown into chaos by Covid-19.

Hamish Willcox has achieved incredible success in the sport as both a sailor and coach. He won three 470 world titles with David Barnes in the early 1980s, was involved with four America’s Cups campaigns and even sailed in the Round the World Race.

It's an event that attracts world and Olympic champions through to absolute beginners and September's fourth edition of the Mud House Women's Regatta is expected to feature more than 20 boats.

New Zealand’s biggest multi-day keelboat sailing event, Bay of Islands Sailing Week, has been awarded gold level clean regattas certification for their “extraordinary waste management efforts” during the last regatta in January 2020.

Yachting New Zealand have been fighting at the advocacy table on behalf of yachties and boaties for many years and we know there are plenty of battles ahead.

They tout themselves as the best excuse in West Auckland not to mow your lawns in the weekend and now the Taikata Sailing Club are working on ways to make sure your lawns grow out of control.

The Fosters Ship Chandlery are moving so are holding a massive relocation clearance sale when customers can make an offer on items.

In our regular focus on the regions, the regional support officers provide an update on what is happening in clubland.

Lewmar Triple Series

I have received a number of calls from clubs asking whether there will be a change in the affiliation fee for the 2021/22 season and I am pleased to report the board have recommended no change.

The International Tornado Association of NZ are on the lookout for Tornado yachts after receiving a number of queries from people interested in sailing and potentially buying Tornado yachts.

The Murrays Bay Sailing Club will mark 30 years of the Winter Champs with a special evening of guest speakers on October 3 that is open to all comers. 

The new AC9F Youth America’s Cup yacht has undergone an official on-water sail testing day in Auckland with fantastic results, and the event is well on track for 2021.

The Mastercard Superyacht Regatta 2021 in Auckland is shaping up to be one of the major on-water events in the world next year with a raft of big-name entries already throwing their hats into the ring as the global superyacht fleet start to make their w

Jenny Armstrong competed at two Olympic Games, one for New Zealand and another for Australia. She went to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics under the New Zealand flag and finished fourth in the Europe dinghy.

It was appropriate Phil Chandler was found applying a lick of paint to the club's six-pound cannon because it's the sort of thing he's been doing for the last 63 years.

The chance to go on a multi-day adventure on Steinlager 2 or Lion New Zealand is rarely open to the general public but that's what the NZ Sailing Trust are offering right now.

For one week last year, the Hauraki Gulf was awash with colour for the Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships.

He had an "obsession with boats and everything that makes them tick" and it led to one of the biggest influences on the New Zealand yachting and boating community.

Well known designer and boatbuilder Jim Young passed away yesterday, aged 94.