Category Archives: General

Coaching Opportunity: Wellington

The Wellington TRIYA 420 high school sailing program is currently looking for coaches! TRIYA  works with multiple high schools in the Wellington region to encourage youth sailing in the 420 class. The trust runs both learn to sail and racing programs (team sailing and fleet racing). We are looking for enthusiastic people with 420 sailing experience who have (ideally) done some coaching […]

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Teams Racing Umpire Course

NZTSA is pleased to annouce that there will be a Teams Racing Umpiring Course happening this April, incorporated into the Secondary Schools National Championships. The course will take place from 1300 to 1700 on 15th April and 0900 to 1700 on the 16th April and will consist of an umpire seminar followed by an exam that could get you qualified […]

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Remembering Sean Dickey

It is with immense regret that we have lost one of the most enthusiastic and cheerful faces that you would ever see on the team sailing circuit: Sean Dickey.  Late last night on the 19th April, he was tragically involved in a motorbike traffic accident that he sadly did not make it out of. Sean dedicated so much of the […]

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Rarotonga Training Week

The Rarotonga Team Sailing Week concluded on Wednesday with 20+ happy but tired sailors coming off the water after the last round of team racing. The three days of racing concluded with a mini round-robin series between the Cook Islands and two New Zealand combined teams. All of the races were really tight and we saw lots of team sailing […]

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Umpires Course 2021

NZTSA are happy to publish that we will be running an umpires training course just prior to the school’s national championships in April. Provisional dates for the course will be the 24th & 25th of April, the weekend immediately preceding the nationals week. This is being run in co-ordination with Yachting NZ and is a great idea to do for […]

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Lockdown Virtual Team Sailing Regatta

Thanks to some excellent team work by Matthew Smith at Whangarei, 5 teams entered a virtual team regatta involving informal teams from Whangarei Boys [2], Whangarei Girls, Mahurangi and Kerikeri High School. The format involved a draw of 20 races set at specific times by Matthew. The draw obviously listed who sailed against whom, the time of the race and […]

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