TVNZ brought their Breakfast show to the NZCT AIMS Games and Tauranga turned on a stunning morning!

Sailing is included in the schedule for the first time in 2015 and NZL Sailing Team’s Blair Tuke was in Tauranga to speak at the opening ceremony. He took the time to be part of the Breakfast Show live broadcast too… if you missed it live you can watch it back

Yachting New Zealand is running a Youth Trials Regatta at the Murrays Bay Sailing Club from the 6th-10th October.  

Sailability Whangarei now has all tide access with the development of a new jetty with a wheelchair accessable ramp officially opened on 21 August.

Ever imagined yourself sailing in a small dinghy, getting on board one of the big boats racing on the harbour or maybe teaching the kids how to sail?

A strong westerly pruned sailing’s debut on the first day of the NZCT AIMS Games in Tauranga but the Anchor-sponsored racing that did happen on the water proved spectacular.

In four days time, 365 school children and over 80 offices and schools will ‘go gold’ to help Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) celebrate exactly ‘1 year to go’ to the start of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Egor Terpigorev (RUS) is featured on the cover of the August edition of FINNFARE, the magazine of the International Finn Class. He was taking part in a Rule 42 clinic held in Valencia before the Finn Silver Cup (Junior World Championship).  Though too old to compete in the Silver Cup, he went on to represent Russia at the Aquece Rio Olympic test event in August.

Entries have opened for the 2016 Bay of Islands Sailing Week, scheduled to take place over the final week of January next year. Registration will take place on 26 January, followed by three days of intense, exciting and colourful racing from 27 to 29 January

The year is rolling on. The 2016 NOR and Entry Form are now on line. It will be so exciting if there are lots of early entries.  2016 is year fourteen for Bay of Islands Sailing Week, New Zealand’s most popular three day regatta.  Keep up the support and book your berth at Far North Holdings Opua.  enquiries@boimarina.co.nz

New Zealand Olympic Committee CEO Kereyn Smith has been elected to the position of Vice President to the Commonwealth Games Federation Board.