Yachting New Zealand - Latest News [Page 26]
Youth Worlds Day Three
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:48 am | Yachting New Zealand
Racing at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships was hampered last night (NZT) by fickle winds. Competition was postponed and then abandoned in all classes except for the board sailors. More >>
Youth Worlds Day Two
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:46 am | Yachting New Zealand
Day two of the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships saw the sailors competing in perfect conditions, with winds averaging 15 knots all afternoon for the young talent in Weymouth Bay. More >>
2006 Youth Worlds Underway
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:44 am | Yachting New Zealand
Racing is underway in the 35th Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships in Weymouth, England. New Zealand is represented by a ten member team made up of five girls and five boys competing in seven classes. Three races were sailed in each of the seven ... More >>
Slater Wins Gold at Kiel Regatta
Monday, 26 June 2006, 9:54 am | Yachting New Zealand
Dan Slater has won Gold at Kiel Regatta after a close fought Medal Race overnight. "Today's Medal race was on a very short course in a 12 knot onshore wind with the start just 100m from the shoreline," says Slater of the deciding race. More >>
Sail Auckland now ISAF Grade 1
Friday, 23 June 2006, 2:02 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Sail Auckland Regatta has been given approval for ISAF Grade 1 status. Sail Auckland organisers and Yachting New Zealand were advised of the news by the International Sailing Federation yesterday. More >>
Yachting Announces National Team
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 5:16 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Yachting New Zealand is announcing the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team for 2006. The ten member team will travel to Weymouth, England to compete at the ISAF World Youth Championships in mid July. More >>
Olympic Squad Grows
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 10:22 am | Yachting New Zealand
Two campaigners have been added to the 2006 Yachting New Zealand Olympic Squad following recent top international performances. Both former Olympians, Tom Ashley on the RS:X board and Hamish Pepper with his crew Carl Williams in the Star class are the new ... More >>
New Zealand Sailors Off to Europe
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 10:01 am | Yachting New Zealand
A number of Yachting New Zealand Olympic Squad and Academy sailors are bound for Europe in coming weeks with the start of the northern hemisphere racing calendar approaching, and preparation for the next Olympic Games in mind. More >>
Rod Davis Returns to Yachting NZ
Monday, 13 March 2006, 3:38 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Rod Davis has returned to Yachting New Zealand as Olympic Coaching Director and Leslie Egnot has been appointed Olympic Operations Manager. More >>
Rod Davis to relinquish role as Olympic Director
Friday, 3 February 2006, 11:06 am | Yachting New Zealand
Yachting New Zealand has agreed with regret that Rod Davis will relinquish his role as Olympic Director. 'Rod has done outstanding work with the team at Yachting New Zealand over the past six months to create a new Olympic plan, and to establish an ... More >>
Kiwis Win Australian Nationals in the 49er
Monday, 23 January 2006, 4:17 pm | Yachting New Zealand
New Zealanders Jake Bartrom and Craig Prentice have taken out the 49er Australian National Championships which concluded on Saturday in Melbourne. A very satisfying win for the pair having beaten Australian hot shot in the 49er and winner of the ... More >>
McLay Collects Bronze at Laser Radial World Champs
Friday, 16 December 2005, 1:05 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Blair McLay has won bronze at the Open Laser Radial World Championship which concluded last night in Fortaleza, Brazil. More >>
Barbara is Back on the Board
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 9:28 am | Yachting New Zealand
Barbara Kendall has her sights set on Beijing. The three-time Olympic medallist announced her intention today to campaign for the 2008 Olympic Games and was named as part of the Yachting New Zealand Olympic Sailing Squad. More >>
Yachting NZ Announces an Olympic Sailing Squad
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 9:27 am | Yachting New Zealand
Yachting New Zealand has today announced an Olympic Sailing Squad. Nine sailors in six classes have been named in the Squad who will work towards selection and then medal contention in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The naming of the Squad comes ... More >>
A New Tornado Team
Monday, 3 October 2005, 3:56 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Aaron McIntosh and Bruce Kendall have joined forces once again to campaign the Tornado Catamaran for the Beijing Olympics 2008. More >>
Former Olympic Champion Becomes YNZ President
Monday, 26 September 2005, 2:49 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Rex Sellers was elected as Yachting New Zealand president at the 2005 Annual General Meeting held in Wellington yesterday. Sellers edged out the only other nominee, Denis Mowbray of Christchurch for the position. Mowbray was re-elected to the Board of ... More >>
Silver For Slater In Finn Europeans
Monday, 15 August 2005, 1:26 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Dan Slater has won silver at the Finn European Championships in Kalmar, Sweden. Gold went to Emirates Team New Zealand sailor, current World Champion and Olympic champion Ben Ainslie sailing for Britain. More >>
McLay Just Misses Bronze, ISAF Youth Worlds Over
Monday, 25 July 2005, 11:58 am | Yachting New Zealand
The final day of racing was abandoned in Busan, Korea with fog plaguing the course. The Race Committee decided racing would be unsafe in the low visibility conditions leaving Blair McLay just outside the top three despite claiming three bullets during ... More >>
Silver For New Zealand at World Champs
Monday, 25 July 2005, 9:50 am | Yachting New Zealand
The New Zealand team have won silver at the Yngling World Championships overnight in Mondsee, Austria. Sharon Ferris, Raynor Smeal and Ashley Holtum secured their place in the final race of the regatta last night. More >>
McLay Still Holds Fourth Going into Final Day
Friday, 22 July 2005, 11:30 am | Yachting New Zealand
Blair McLay retains 4th position going into the final day of racing at the ISAF Youth World Champs in Korea. With the bronze medal position in his sights yesterdays 2nd race was abandoned due to fog with Blair well in front, agonizingly close to another ... More >>
