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V5 First Nifty Fifty to Finish
Three boats crossed the finish line in the last few hours! V5: 04:50:06 Wired: 06:16:48 Vamos: 06:31:37. V5 have pulled into the marina and are now awaiting customs with Wired and Vamos just around the corner. Congratulations V5 (David Nathan / RNZYS) 3rd on Line! Welcome to a rainy Fiji! Post by ANZ Sail Fiji.
Update from Wired
Great night sail...except for the continuous rain. A2 genny and then Code 0. Salty and Peter Burling doing a great job driving in the testy conditions, 26 kts of wind and 19 kts of boat speed averaging 16 kts for 6 hours with no visability and a couple of jybes thrown in. Jybed away from [...]
Team mates become opponents
They have won an Olympic Silver Medal in the 49er class, are the current world champions, are team mates with Emirates Team New Zealand for the Extreme Sailing Series and show outstanding skills in almost all the class of boats they step into, but for ANZ Sail Fiji, Kiwi glamour lads of sailing are going [...]
Royal Clubs Go Head to Head
ANZ Sail Fiji gets underway on Saturday 7 June at 1300 hours and the 20 strong racing fleet is all but ready to go. Amongst the battle grounds there are 15 boats that will represent the Royal clubs for the Interclub Challenge, a trophy that hasn’t been contested for some time. Royal Akarana Yacht Club [...]
The Nifty Fifties
In less than a month the cannons will fire for the Royal Akarana Yacht Club’s 22nd race to Fiji, ANZ Sail Fiji. The entry portal has now closed but with less than 150 minutes before the deadline, ANZ Sail Fiji received it’s 20th racing fleet entry in the form of the TP52, Kia Kaha. Excitement [...]
80 Days To Go
A lot can happen in 80 days, you can go around the world, or you can get on a boat for the ANZ Sail Fiji race! The Royal Akarana Yacht Club race, starting on Saturday 7th June at 1300 hours, is set to be one of the largest offshore international events to leave New Zealand [...]
11 for a Monday morning! Wait – make that 12!
UPDATED! Within just a few minutes of posting this story about receiving our 11th ANZ Sail Fiji entry, we got another one! Outrageous Fortune, the Beneteau 45 owned and skippered by Quintin Fowler, has joined our line up! [divider] Wired A great way to start the week is by receiving an entry for [...]
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