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Gold Cup Race 1

The Gold Cup Series is a collaboration with:

• Royal Akarana Yacht Club
• Bucklands Beach Yacht Club
• Richmond Yacht Club
• Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

Led by RAYC, the four of the five races are between 35-48 nautical miles with the final race, The Balokovic Cup, being approximately 87 miles.

Saturday 25 September Race 1 – Spring Regatta (Richmond Yacht Club) / Approx. 50nm

Saturday 9 October Race 2 – Roy McDell Memorial (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron) / Approx. 35nm

Saturday 6 November Race 3 – Bean Rock Race (Royal Akarana Yacht Club) / Approx. 44nm

Saturday 4 December Race 4 – Percy Jones Memorial (Bucklands Beach Yacht Club) / Approx. 48nm

Friday 4 February Race 5 – Balokovic Cup (Royal Akarana Yacht Club Yacht Club) / Approx. 89nm The Balokovic Cup is Race 4 of the Ran Tan II Memorial Blue Water Championship

What to See

There’s so much to see at the auckland anniversary day regatta.

With hundreds of vessels of all shapes and sizes taking part all over the city, it’s the biggest one-day regatta in the world.

For spectators, it’s a glorious spectacle featuring tall ships, gaff riggers, classic yachts and launches, modern keelers and multihulls, sailing dinghies, radio controlled boats, waka ama, dragonboats and tugboats racing throughout the day.

Here are some of the highlights not to be missed :

Tugboat Race & Display

Tugboats may not be designed to race, but when they do, they are a spectacular sight. Dozens of tugs will start off Westhaven at 10am, racing down to Orakei and back again, followed by a display.

Auckland has the largest fleet of vintage yachts and launches still on the water, anywhere in the world, and many of them are on display at Auckland Anniversary Regatta. Be at Westhaven from 11am to watch the classic launches race, and from midday to watch the classic yachts carry out their exciting manoeuvres as they line for their start.

Dinghy Sailing

The centreboard classes are the grass roots favourites of New Zealand sailing, and hundreds of dinghy sailors will take to the water to compete on Anniversary Day. Racing takes place at clubs around Auckland.

Radio Controlled Yachts

Incredibly dextrous for their miniature size, radio controlled yachts are fascinating for all ages to watch. Competitors regularly include America's Cup and top level sailors, as well as weekend warriors. Watch the RC yacht races at Westhaven and St Mary’s Bay.

Foiling Classes

See a whole new era in sailing take flight. Watch the incredible foiling fleets race at Takapuna, with fast and fun foiling dinghies like the Nacra 15 and 17 classes, Waszps Moths and A Class, plus wind foils, kite foils and wing foils taking part.

RNZN Flagship

Each year one of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s vessels will join the Anniversary Day celebrations as the flagship of the event.

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• Race Start: Auckland

Start Day: 14th January 2024

Group photos and yachts slip lines from Jellicoe Harbour , Wynyard Marina , at 12:00 .

14:00 off the breakwater at Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron . The start line will be between the Westhaven Yellow Buoy and the Westhaven Tower.

Where to Watch The Start?

From the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron the yachts will sail up the harbour to a rounding mark off the Royal Akarana Yacht Club then proceed towards North Head . You can view the action all along the coast from the Yacht Squadron to North Head.

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The PIC Harbour Classic

Bought to you by the organisers of the legendary coastal classic.

Be part of this one-of-a-kind experience

New Zealanders are never one to be left behind when it comes to new adventures, new challenges and yacht racing. Our philosophy is “if they can do it, so can we”. And so we are!

Introducing the PIC HARBOUR CLASSIC!

Based on the famous Barcolona Regatta in Trieste developed more than 50 years ago, this event combines a competitive yacht race, a bewitching spectacle, and a festival.

Just like the Coastal Classic the Barcolona Regatta started with a small number of boats.  It now holds the Guinness World Record as the largest regatta in the world with 2689 boats competing and is the biggest event for the city of Trieste.

And now it’s our turn!

Dedicated to all lovers of the sea and sailing and those who do not want to miss out on a one-of-a-kind experience, the PIC Harbour Classic will take place on 8th and 9th of March 2024.

On the same starting line expert sailors, sailing lovers, enthusiasts, and your simple family yachts race side by side on boats of different sizes divided into several divisions according to their overall length.

Wynyard Quarter and Jellicoe Wharf is our host venue where competing boats will be moored, and the party and prizegiving will be held.

More comprehensive details will be updated in due course.

Watch live: Coastal Classic yacht race from Auckland to Russell

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Watch the start of the iconic sailing contest from Auckland to Russell.

2020 has been the year of uphill battles, and the PIC Coastal Classic yacht race today will see no different. From 9:30am, 165 sailboats will quite literally begin an uphill battle from Auckland's Waitemata Harbour to Russell in the Bay of Islands, sailing against the wind into light winds from the north.

With the wind strength on the start line near Devonport Wharf expected as low as 5 knots, and an incoming tide pushing backward on progress that is made, it will be a very tactical start to the 119 nautical mile journey.

Conditions are set to improve as the day progresses, with the wind strength building and shifting slightly east for a straight-line drag race up the coast. However, competitors will again need to be intensely strategic as they enter the Bay of Islands into the night with a dying breeze to battle their way to the finish line off Russell Wharf.

Among the lead pack expected at the finish line is the New Zealand Ocean Racing team, co-skippered by Bianca Cook and Darryl Wislang. While this is Darryl's first PIC Coastal Classic and Bianca's 6th, he has won The Ocean Race onboard a V065 sailboat similar to what they are sailing today, twice. They are joined by fellow Ocean Race veterans including Ryan Houston and Tony Rae: a total team of 12 talented kiwi yachties who among them have completed at least 64 editions of the PIC Coastal Classic. Based on weather modelling, they are expected into Russell around midnight tonight.

Competitors have until 3pm Saturday to finish, and it looks like the smaller boats especially will need all the time they can get. The smallest boat in the fleet again this year is the Elliot 7 called Elevation, a sport boat from the Bay of Plenty that is clever enough to be put on a trailer and towed home behind a car from Russell, rather than the rest of the fleet that will turn around and sail home on Sunday.

Among the other notable entries in today's race include Emotional Rescue, a Davidson 55 yacht that became the first monohull boat to win the PIC Coastal Classic in 1989, the year it was launched. The boat was recently purchased from the original owner by Carl Whiting, a name known to many from his 20 years sailing professionally from the Americas Cup to the Olympics. The 1989 race was described as "Atrocious" with winds of up to 70kn, a far cry from what is likely to be experienced today.

The PIC Coastal Classic is the annual event that signals the start of the summer boating season. Sailed every labour weekend since 1982, the New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club event has grown into much more than a yacht race, with now over 25 boats taking part in a non-competitive cruising rally division too.

Family and friends can follow the race on Friday morning from 9:30am with live streaming of the start, and yacht tracking by PredictWind online on www.coastalclassic.co.nz.

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America's Cup Sailing Experience

• Duration 2 Hours
• Category Sailing
• Location Auckland
• Operating Season Year round
• Price $195 Adult $135 Child
• America's Cup Sailing Experience

Feel the thrill of the wind in your face as you sail across the Waitematā Harbour. Join our professional crew to help sail an authentic America’s Cup race yacht...

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A unique opportunity to participate as crew on an actual America’s Cup yacht - we offer everyone the opportunity to sail these grand-prix racing machines, no experience necessary.

With guidance from our professional crew you will become part of the team sailing this authentic race vessel. Take the helm, exert energy on the grinders or sit back relax and enjoy the action as we sail the beautiful Waitemata Harbour.

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• Opportunity to participate in sailing as part of our crew; take the helm or exert energy on the grinders with guidance from our professional crew
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• Enjoy an informative commentary from our knowledgeable crew about the harbour, the America’s Cup and its history

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Do you want to join the fleet click here for more information on ownership/share options, who and what we do, the mrx fleet in auckland is made up of  of 11 identical 10.3m bruce farr designed, nz made purpose-built racing yachts. they are used for national and international match racing, fleet racing and club racing., available for charter, these yachts give the thrill of racing and a chance for everyone to race like dean barker and russell coutts on the sparkling waters of waitemata harbour..

The fleet has been a key element in the development of NZ's vast talent of young sailors to national and international elite keelboat sailing culminating for many in successful America's Cup careers.

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Rnzys mrx sprint series 3rd, 17th, 31st oct 14th, 28th nov 12th dec 20th feb 5th, 19th march 2nd april rnzys ladies series 5th , 19th oct 2nd, 16th, 30th nov 14th dec 8th, 22nd feb 7th march 4th april ponsonby cruising club women's  series 10th, 24th oct 7th, 21st nov 5th, 19th dec rnzys wednesday night series 11th, 25th oct 8th, 22nd nov 6th dec 31st jan 14th, 28th feb 13th, 27th march ryc wednesday night series 4th, 18th oct 1st, 15th, 29th nov 13th dec 24th jan 21st feb 6th, 20th mar rnzys havana club rum race each friday.   ponsonby thursday rum race.        .

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Mrx championships 18th feb women's keelboat nationals   new zealand keelboat national championships                        , mrx ltd 2018.