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JJ Giltinan Trophy: Yamaha wins Race 1
2017 JJ Giltinan Championship, Race 1 Sponsored by The Winning Group (Race Sponsor: ILVE) Saturday, 25 February 2017 Sydney Harbour FULL RESULTS New Zealand champion Yamaha came from behind to
Dad & Child Sailing Experience
Dad & Child Sailing Experience with the NZ Sailing Trust. We invite dads, also uncles to bring their beloved child or niece or nephew along to share in an awesome
Cosmic Cruz Adventures: Dinner Parties at Sea
Checking in with Lucy & BJ on Cosmic Cruz. Check out their first postcard of how to fillet a kingfish! When we were planning our two months sailing around the
Big turnout for Elliott 5.9 Nationals
The Russell Boating Club are hosting Elliott 5.9 Nationals that will commence this week 19 – 21 May. The fleet will be one of the largest Elliott 5.9 fleets to assemble over recent years.
Yandoo claims 75th JJ Giltinan 18 Foot Skiff Championships Title
The Yandoo team of Micah Lane, Fang Warren and Lewis Brake became the Winnings 2024 JJ Giltinan world 18ft skiff champions today on Sydney Harbour after scoring a brilliant win in the final race of what has been one of the best championship regattas in the events 86-year history.
Every cloud has a silver lining…
It all happened so quickly. The boats were already intertwined by the time we all realised what had happened. As the impact sent me down the companionway, all that was in my head was “it’s over, all that work, it’s over before it started.”
International 29er Meet the Fleet – Blair Tuke
From 29er World Champion to a glittering professional career, 6 x 49er World Champion, Olympic Gold and Silver medalist, 2 x America’s Cup Winner, 2nd in the Volvo Ocean Race, Sail GP Team NZL Co-CEO and founder of Live Ocean, we meet Blair Tuke, NZL
Sensors in the house!
We’re supporting wireless sensors in a big way with the Atlas 2 release, and customers have been asking us to not just support them, but also sell them. We listened,
RNZYS Winter Series Video
Check out our video from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron Winter Series Race on Saturday 30 August 2014. It was a wet, wild and blustery day, but that didn…
Lively Conditions for Return of Santa Maria Cup
…The event features ten of the best all-women match racing teams from six countries including USA, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Burling and Tuke excited about golden opportunity
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will on Monday pull on the leader’s yellow bibs for the first time at these Tokyo Olympics and it has come at just the right
Auckland Grammar School Wins 2023 Harken National Secondary Schools Keelboat Championships
After a dramatic day of finals on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour, the Auckland Grammar School team of Sean Kensington, Tom Pilkington, Rowan Kensington, George Pilkington and James Buckland Blair have claimed title as Champions of the Harken National Secondary Schools Regatta.
Sailing is back on!
The sun was barely peaking over the horizon when young sailors Marcus and Josh Hilder were rigging up their Optimists on the banks of Lake Pupuke in an effort to
Walton-Keim takes out third kitefoil national title
Lukas Walton-Keim secured a third-straight kitefoiling national title over the weekend but wasn’t entirely happy with his performance as he looks to climb the international rankings over the next couple of years.
PIC Coastal Classic: Fleet looks to small boats for new race records
From 930am Friday morning (tomorrow) 170 yachts of all shapes and sizes will line up off Devonport Wharf in Auckland for the start of the 40th edition of the PIC Coastal Classic.
The Dinghy Sailor Who Transitioned…
I never thought I would be one to transition… I always believed myself to be happy in the world I was born into. Not once had I looked across the road and thought the grass was greener
Look mum, no hands!
New Zealand’s own wonderfully talented Miranda Powrie shows us how it’s done – ‘look mum, no hands!’ Miranda shows us some tips on getting perfect boat trim by eliminating…
Project Landspeed: A Creep of Frustration
The creep of water was accompanied by the creep of frustration on Lake Gairdner for Glenn Ashby and the land speed team as near perfect winds blew across the wetted lake surface restricting any sailing again.
Live Ocean Racing Update – 5th in Spain, 4th for the season
On the final day of this event, and the season, the fleet sailed three races including two short course windward leewards, and a longer course RAID. Los Alcazares, Spain delivered stunning sailing conditions for the four day event with a full schedule of 18 races sailed.
No Instruments, No Autopilot – No Problem!
A write up from one of the 150+ boats that were on the start for the first SSANZ Triple Series in Auckland, Kaizen a Farr 36 MOD. SSANZ 60 (actually




















