Author: Phillipa Durkin

Wellington Youth Sailing Trust (WYST) hosted two weeks of their annual Regional Match Racing Clinic over the school holidays. Teams attended from Napier, Queen Charlotte, Nelson, New Plymouth, Gisborne, Christchurch and Otago. The aim of the clinic was to give the sailors a taste of a format of racing that they might not have been familiar with. They had to orientate themselves with the fleet of Elliot 6m yachts and work as a team, when most were used to single handed dinghys. Each day presented different challenges in terms of conditions and drills for the sailors, ranging from absolutely glassy on…

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