The Opua Cruising Club are hosting a safety seminar when individuals can discover if their boat meets the changes to the 2017 safety regulations.

Yachting New Zealand have recently refreshed their strategy and next week will start sharing that with clubs around the country.

New Zealand’s biggest on-water boat show is on this month at Auckland’s ANZ Viaduct Events Centre, showcasing almost 200 domestic and international marine businesses.

The Mt Pleasant Yacht Club opened their new boat shed, storage and changing facility last weekend which coincided nicely with the club's opening day.

Regional support officer Hamish Hey gives an update from the bottom half of the northern region.

Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders brushed aside a late decision to ban the use of a sail they had been mastering in training to sit third after the opening day of the Nacra world championships in France overnight (NZ time).

Over the winter, Yachting New Zealand and the race officials committee updated the template race documents that organising authorities are able to use.

Race officers from all over the country gathered in Wellington on Saturday to discuss, debate, share experiences and learn from each other at the annual Yachting New Zealand race officers conference.

Athletes normally know if they have won a world title but for Courtney and Brianna Reynolds-Smith that realisation didn’t happen until the closing ceremony at the 470 junior world championships in Japan at the weekend.

It’s often said long distance relationships don’t work but Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders hope it will be the ingredient that helps deliver them Olympic gold.