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1st & 3rd for NZL Sailing Team at Europeans

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have sealed the deal today taking out the 2013 SAP 49er European Championships in Arhus Denmark. [youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Cu2EUIdhk’] Alex Maloney and Molly Meech also secured

European 49/49FX and RSX Champs

New Zealand’s top Olympic skiff sailors and windsurfers are racing in their respective European Championship Regattas with competition getting underway in Arhus, Denmark and Brest, France overnight. At this early

Iain Percy, Deep and Meaningful

We have just stumbled across this video of Iain Percy, two time Olympic Medalist. This video produced by Alfred Dunhill hits the sport when talking about why we go sailing.

EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup Day 3

NZL Sailing Team lying top two in three classes! Report from Yachting New Zealand The NZL Sailing Team are back in the hunt for medals with three crews lying top

EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup

Good gains for NZL on day two at Delta Lloyd Regatta Report from Yachting New Zealand: Bitter conditions meant the beanies were back out in Medemblik, the Netherlands for day

Triple Gold for the NZL Sailing Team

EUROSAF Regatta, Garda – Report from Yachting New Zealand New Zealand has sailed away with three gold medals at Vela Garda Trentino – the first of five regattas in the

ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres

Day 2: Five in the top five for NZ Report from Yachting New Zealand: Photos from Jean-Marie Liot / DPPI / FFVoile The NZL Sailing Team was back on the

ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres

Day one done, NZL holds early lead in Men’s 470 From Yachting New Zealand: Photos from Jean-Marie Liot / DPPI / FFVoile Racing at ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres is

Will the Torch find the Flame?

There has been a lot of news lately about the legal battle over royalties from the UK Laser manufacturer LaserPerformance. Basically, they aren’t paying what they should be and after

New Scoring System?

Although we haven’t been reporting on it, there is a bit of a high profile regatta going on in Palma (something to do with ISAF and a World Cup?) Anyway,

Burling and Tuke confirm Rio Campaign

With Jo and Polly confirming their Rio Olympic campaign in the 470 last December, the 49er boys (Pete and Blair) have confirmed their intentions of going to Rio to upgrade

Grass Roots Sailing

I have just read with great interest the comments of Rod Davis, coach for ETNZ, on their blog. It is interesting that he refers to the “Olympic Kiss of Death”