In the lead up to the 2015 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards, on in Auckland on 27 November, we bring you a feature on each of the ten 2015 Service Award winners. Today we focus on Matt Hall-Smith.

In the lead up to the 2015 Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards, on in Auckland on 27 November, we bring you a feature on each of the ten 2015 Service Award winners. Today we focus on Merlin Caskie.

After a close and hard fought series of events in 2015, Auckland's Icebreaker (Aaron Young, Jamie Logan and Steve Mair, RNZYS) has emerged as the winner of the 2015 Elliott 5.9 Association Traveler Series.  

So, to begin, let’s rewind to August, when we were back in Rio, competing in the Olympic Test event..  We started off having a bit of a shocker.  

Zhik are excited to announce that the brand is now represented in New Zealand by Simon Hull’s Multihull Ventures, trading as Zhik NZ.

Strong winds and some logs on the race course complicated the second day of racing in Barcelona.

 

Some of New Zealand’s top sailors are on the volunteer roster for the up-coming 2015 Yachting New Zealand Youth Trials.

Ben Saxton/Nicola Groves lead the scoreboard, while Lucy Macgregor/David Evans are on fourth place.

Heretaunga Boating Club members unanimously elected long serving member Ian Blair to life membership at the AGM in June.

The double Olympic medallist, Iker Martinez, will defend the Nacra 17 European crown in Barcelona, in a championship that brings together 42 teams from 23 countries and three different continents, including up to 13 Olympic medals and over 50 World and European podiums.