With just over a month to the start of the Aon Youth Sailing World Championship we are still looking to fill volunteer spots on the water and ashore. This will be an incredible event to be a part of, with 400 competitors from 68 countries battling it out in youth sailing classes in the Hauraki Gulf. 

Club Registrations are now open for Volvo Sailing and Boating Week 2017, so sign up your club now to be involved in this nationwide initiative to promote sailing and boating around New Zealand.

New Plymouth turned on a range of weather conditions for the NZIODA Optimist North Islands and Starling Travellers Series regatta last weekend.

Spaces are still available for the Summer Sailing Camp at Kawau Island hosted by the RNZYS.  Young Sailors between 14 – 20 years of age are invited to join in the fun this December.

Ten sailors or teams have been selected to receive a Yachting New Zealand Performance Award in 2016, recognising outstanding performance and/or exceptional performances in the sport of yachting over the past twelve months. Read about the Performance Award winners. 

The Yachting New Zealand Youth Performance Awards recognise exceptional sailing performances achieved over the past twelve months. Check out the 2016 recipients to be formally recognised at the Volvo Excellence Awards evening on 25 November. 

Talented kiwi duo and recently crowned Red Bull Foiling Generation World Champions Micah Wilkinson and Olivia Mackay have been named among the Yachting New Zealand performance award winners to be formally recognized at the Volvo Excellence awards evening on 25 November.  

For the first time members of the public can vote for the Rolex World Sailor of the Year. New Zealand sailors, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have been named as finalists and voting closes TODAY so you need to cast your vote now before it’s too late.

Set to unfold on Waitangi Weekend from 3-6 February and hosted by Murrays Bay Sailing Club, the premiere Youth and Olympic Classes regatta is expected to attract competition from around the world while also giving up-and-coming sailors the chance to compete against New Zealand’s top level Olympic campaigners. Make sure you're there - enter now! 

Conrad Colman pushed off the dock in Les Sables d'Olonne on Sunday for the start of the single-handed Vendee Globe race.