Major Regattas

Aaron Young, Commodore of the RNZYS, had a desire to advance the quality of club racing in New Zealand. It led him to impulse-buy a 40-foot carbon canting keeler from Europe within 72 hours of [...]

Karleen Dixon and her crew of Sara Tucker, Paula Satterthwaite, Jennifer Jameson, Raynor Haagh, Miranda Addy and Kylie Jameson, have taken out the 2020 Barfoot & Thompson NZ Women’s National [...]

Ten all-female teams will take to the water in the MRX fleet at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland this weekend for the 2020 Barfoot & Thompson NZ Women’s National Keelboat [...]

After a high-pressure decision to postpone the Nationals on the cusp of the COVID-19 pandemic back in March, the event was successfully completed last weekend by a competitive fleet of sixteen [...]

Sixteen Young 88’s will hit the harbour this weekend (21st & 22nd November) in Auckland for what is going to be a fiercely contested Harken Young 88 National Championship and North [...]

A twenty-knot forecast is set to spice up the Çoast NZ Etchell Class National Championship being run by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland this weekend. Ten very competitive crews [...]

A stellar sixteen teams will be on the water at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron from Thursday through to Sunday this week vying for the 2020 Yachting Developments New Zealand Match Racing [...]

Sam Meech and his Theland Racing Team – Alex Maloney, Brad Marsh, Matt Steven, Laurie Jury, and Roy van der Hurk – have won the 2020 Theland NZ Open National Keelboat Championship in [...]

A record fourteen teams will contest the 2020 Theland NZ Open Keelboat National Championship this weekend on the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland. Beating the previous record of eight teams in 2016, [...]

It’s all about women’s match racing this weekend at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron as the 2020 NZ Women’s Match Racing Championship gets underway on Friday morning.  Seven all-female kiwi [...]