The battle for leg six honours in the Volvo Ocean Race looks set to go down to the wire with just 14 nautical miles between Camper and first placed Puma, as the fleet enters the final 24 hours of racing.Overnight the top two boats...

YACHTING The NZL Sailing Team are in Europe with three world championship regattas underway, and three more about to begin. The Laser World Championships in Germany, where five New Zealanders are competing, and the Star World Championships in France h...

YACHTING The battle for Leg 6 honours looks set to go down to the wire with just 14 nautical miles between CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand and first placed Puma as the fleet enters the final 24 hours of racing.Overnight the top two boats managed...

It is easy to forget that in the years immediately preceding 1984, all was far from plain sailing when windsurfers were introduced to that year's Olympic Games.There was a view that windsurfing was the wayward teenage son to the...

Yachting New Zealand's chief executive David Abercrombie isn't about to waste time wringing his hands over the dumping of one of the country's most successful disciplines from the Olympic Games programme.Instead Abercrombie, acknowledging...

YACHTING New Zealand businessman, Neville Crichton, has been honoured in 2012 World Superyacht Awards for his contribution to the world super yacht industry and, in particular his ‘instrumental role in the establishment and growth of the New Zea...

There's unlikely to be much sleep on board the boats in the final 48 hours of racing into Miami in the Volvo Ocean Race with the race for line honours an intense one.It has been a game of snakes and ladders for the fleet, with hard...

YACHTING CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand’s tactical battle continues with the team closing to within eight nautical miles (nm) of  Puma overnight only to sail into a large light patch in the last few hours causing them to lose ground ...

YACHTING At the conclusion of their mid-year meetings, the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has announced that kiteboarding will replace windsurfing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and that the New Zealand designed MacKay FX (now 49er FX) will be...

The light airs lottery is set to continue for Team New Zealand's Camper as the Volvo Ocean Race fleet heads towards another large windless zone.The last 24 hours has seen the boats making steady progress in moderate reaching conditions,...

YACHTING The light airs lottery is set to continue for CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand as the Volvo fleet heads towards another large windless zone.The last 24 hours has seen the fleet making steady progress in moderate reaching conditions, howe...

Camper are focusing on taking advantage of every wind-shift and wave as the Miami finishing line looms for the leaders of the Volvo Ocean Race.The finish of leg six is likely to be a tight one. With just under 1000 nautical miles...

Tricky times lie ahead for Team New Zealand's Camper as the Volvo Ocean Race fleet transitions from trade wind sailing to a large zone of light air.After several days of fast and furious sailing with boat speeds of up to 30 knots,...

YACHTING Six Olympic class sailing world championship regattas will be sailed in Europe over the next two weeks, each featuring New Zealand’s hottest yachting talent.The Laser World Championships are the first to start tonight overnight (NZT), a...

Camper are enjoying the fast-running conditions at the front of the Volvo Ocean Race and are continuing to keep rivals Puma within reach.The light conditions of the Doldrums are behind Camper and for the last 24 hours they have...