Meet some of New Zealand’s hottest sailing property at The Derek Wootton Memorial Trust Gala Dinner and Auction on Saturday 16 August at The Royal New Zealand Police College. With outstanding Sports broadcaster Peter Montgomery MBE interviewing current Olympic Yachting Silver Medalists, current World Champions and members of New Zealand’s Americas Cup Team dynamic duo of Peter Burling and Blair Tuke on centre stage, it will be a night to remember.
New Zealand has won gold and bronze at the 2014 49er and 49erFX European Championships in Helsinki with Peter Burling and Blair Tuke successfully defending their title and Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech taking bronze also repeating their 2013 performance.
One of the largest regattas in Australia Sail Sydney is six days of high class, high adrenaline racing for all dinghy classes.
Against the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, hundreds of competitors from around Australia and around the world will race in this ISAF graded event.
We have mixed emotions about our time in Helsinki. A week on from the 2014 Europeans the dust has settled, and we are able to see our strengths and weaknesses more clearly - our performance over the competition had its highs and lows, but we are happy with a 3rd place.
Kiwi SKUD Sailing crew of Tim Dempsey and Gemma Fletcher are in the final build-up to the SKUD World Championships on the campaign trail towards the 2016 Paralympic Games.
Andre Budzien (GER), the 2012 World Champion leads Greg Wilcox (NZL) the 2002 World Champion and Bo Petersen (DEN) the defending European champion after the first two races at the 2014 OK Dinghy European Championship in Steinhude, Germany.
On Sunday the 6th of July, Royal Akarana Yacht Club hosted an intimate get together of old friends from the sailing circle to celebrate the birthday of Bill Hursthouse. Bill turned 100 on the 10th of July. Rob Heath gave an excellent speech about Bill’s background in sailing and reminded everyone he started sailing at York Bay Wellington and finished with an appearance at the Worlds sailed from Royal Akarana Yacht Club in 2005, about 87 years later.