AWA AGM & 2011-2012 prize giving

Fri 10 Aug 2012

Auckland

Yorke Street Mechanics Bar. York Street New Market.

Following the AGM we will have the prize giving for the 2011-12 season events.

Come along and hear about the changing so if you want to volunteer for any roles where you can make a real difference to the sport, then please contact Anton. President's role, VP, treasurer, secretary, marketing, Racing, Social events coordinator, all these roles will be elected on the 10th of August.

Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan

The latest version plans include closing the Takapuna Beach Holiday Park and a relocation of the National Ocean Water Sports Centre (NOWSC). If you live in Auckland and/or sail from Takapuna you may be interested - submissions close 4th September

Learn to windsurf - beginners and advanced

Tue 10 Jul 2012 - Fri 13 Jul 2012

Lake Pupuke, Auckland

8hrs
Heaps of fun
Gear provided
Wetsuits provided
12-2pm rain, hail or shine
For beginners and those wanting to extend their skills
$185

Speed - starting and stopping, Handling tacking and gybing, Skills upwind and downwind

contact Alan @ Madloop 021 958 812, Brian Haybittle 021 112 9556

see
www.techno.windsurfingnz.org - www.facebook.com/RSXandTechnoNZ - www.madloop.co.nz

RS:X & Techno team are at the Auckland Hutchwilco Boat Show 17-21st May

Great looking set-up, check out their web site RS:X Techno NZ. They are giving away free lessons so get your friends, especially the ones with kids to call by the stand.
When the going gets tough ... these guys are rising to the challenge and deserve our support - if anyone can think of a way to help them, get in touch.

YNZ discussion around Kiteboard racing in NZ

Wed 16 May 2012

YNZ Offices, Auckland

Are you interested in Kiteboard Racing?
Everybody who has an interest in kiteboard racing is invited to YNZ’s offices on 16th May at 7pm for a discussion around the implementation of Kiteboard racing in NZ.
As you are mostly all aware the Kiteboard has been given the vote to be included in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
This is a decision that has come as a bit of a surprise and we need to get organised in NZ as soon as possible.
Whilst this decision has presented a few challenges it also provides a great opportunity to organise racing across

2012 New Zealand Formula Nationals - full results

FORMULA NATIONALS 2012

Manly Yacht Club

Overall Results

Bic Techno Oceania’s and RS:X National Championships 2012

February proved again that the wind can be very shifty and light. Great for socialising on the beach but more difficult for setting a fair course off Manly Beach.

A Techno competition doubled as the Oceania's and the NZ Nationals. There were four competitors from Noumea and one from Australia as well as a bunch of new local sailors in this class.

NZ Formula Windsurfing Nationals

Sat 24 Mar 2012 - Sun 25 Mar 2012

Auckland

Windsurfing NZ and the Manly Yacht Club invite you to the NZ Formula Nationals on 24-25 March at Manly Yacht club.
The Yacht club run excellent race events so be sure to attend if you are keen on some exciting and well run racing.

The NOR (combined with SI’s) is here http://www.sportsground.co.nz/files/Site/503/7/Pdf/120127105014ERNOJEDM.pdf
Manly yacht club promotion is here. http://www.sportsground.co.nz/clubsite.asp?siteid=5037&pageid=17649&page...

Registration is at the event.

Hope you can all make it.

Sail Auckland 2012 largely becalmed on final day - RS:X gets 2 races away

The final day of Sail Auckland 2012 was plagued by light winds and extremely shifty conditions.
There were no races completed today in the 470, 420, Laser, Laser Radial and Finn, so final results in those divisions are the ones that remain from yesterday. The RS:X, SKUD 18 and 2.4mR were the lucky three classes to finish both of their races as scheduled, and the 29er and 49er skiffs had just one.

NZL Sailing Team lead at Sail Auckland

New Zealand’s selected Olympians for 2012 are all proving their status as top in their fleet of NZ, and two National Champions are about to emerge as favourable conditions continued today.
The Women’s RS:X now sees Kohimarama Yacht Club’s Steffanie Williams in the lead, with Australia’s Jessica Crisp and the NZL Sailing Team’s Natalia Kosinska only a handful of points behind. The highly competitive Men’s RS:X standings have remained the same today, with Switzerland’s Richard Stauffacher maintaining a narrow lead over 2011 Men’s RS:X World Champion Dorian Van Rijsselberghe of the Netherlands. JP Tobin (Men’s RS:X ) is giving time for his foot wound to heal and is not competing.