As many as 16 of the country's best young sailors will be chosen to participate in the Pathway to Podium programme, which aims to help talented youngsters win medals at the Olympic, Paralympics or world championships within 10 years.
Andrew Clouston’s talents as a yachting administrator were identified early and that has continued with his appointment as Yachting New Zealand chief operating officer.
The 2017 Yachting New Zealand youth trials will be held at the Manly Sailing Club in October to help select the NZL Sailing Foundation Youth Team to contest December's Youth Sailing World Championships in Sanya, China.
Michelle Bain decided at the last minute to enter last week's World Masters Games and she's pretty glad she did, coming away with gold in the Laser Radial women's master category.
Record numbers attended the secondary schools team sailing national champions at Algies Bay last week, showing the strength and growth of teams sailing.
Sam Meech finished his first regatta since the Rio Olympics on a good note, with a third in the medal race at the World Cup in Hyeres overnight (NZT), but leaves France with mixed emotions after some up-and-down results.
Sam Meech's up-and-down week continued but he experienced enough of an up overnight (NZT) to sneak into the top 10 medal race in the Laser class at the World Cup regatta in Hyeres, France.
Andrew McKenzie's climb up the leaderboard at the World Cup regatta in Hyeres, France, continued overnight (NZT) and the young Kiwi is targeting another couple of strong results to qualify for Sunday's medal race in the Laser fleet.
