The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron might be easily New Zealand's biggest yacht club but it doesn't mean they sit back and assume membership will always be strong.
The Volvo Yachting Excellence Awards are on later this month and some of the winners have already been announced. Here is the final instalment on the winners so far.
The new fleet of Elliott 6 Sport yachts for The Wellington Youth Sailing Trust were officially launched at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club earlier this month.
Only two sailors return from last year's team but there are plenty of familiar names in this year's New Zealand squad for next month's youth sailing world championships in Sanya, China.
Sir Russell Coutts heads an all-star coaching lineup at the Windshift camp in Wanaka in early January, when a number of youngsters will explore the many sailing pathways open to them in the modern sailing world.
