New Zealand Team Sailing Association

01/10/2026

Royal Akarana Yacht Club - RAYC putting on a show with a group of locals interrupting racing! 🐬

Great for our sailors to see a pod of dolphins hanging out around and through the race course. A wind delay meant we got to watch them for a short time, before heading into shore to wait for wind.

30/09/2026

⛵ Welcome to Interdoms 2026!

Welcome to Royal Akarana Yacht Club for the 2026 JetPark Secondary Schools Interdominion Team Racing Regatta! 🇳🇿🇦🇺

Our 10 competing schools have arrived, boats are rigged, teams are briefed, and everyone is ready to go! 🔥

We’re looking forward to three days of top-tier team racing, with the best school teams from Australia and New Zealand battling it out on the water.

Who will come out on top? 👀🏆

AP is currently up, but we’ve got a beautiful day here in Auckland and we’re hoping the breeze decides to join us soon! 🌤️⛵

Let the racing begin!

28/09/2026

🇳🇿 🇦🇺 THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! ⛵

We’re getting ready to welcome some of the best secondary school team sailors from across Australia and New Zealand to the 2026 Secondary Schools Interdominion Team Racing Regatta, proudly sponsored by JetPark and hosted at Royal Akarana Yacht Club!

From Thursday, the battle begins as the top 3 Open teams and 3 All Female teams from each country go head-to-head on the water. 🇳🇿 🇦🇺

Over the coming days, these teams will battle it out for:
🏆 Interdominion Open Champions
🏆 Interdominion All Female Champions
🇳🇿 🇦🇺 Top Country

Meet the teams competing in 2026:

🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND
Auckland Grammar School
Macleans College
Westlake Boys High School
WGHS - Westlake Girls High School
Nelson College for Girls
Whangārei Girls' High School

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA
The Hutchins School
Fahan School Hobart Australia
Ascham School
Moreton Bay College

The boats are getting ready, the teams are arriving, and the countdown is almost over…

Australian Team Sailing Association

18/04/2026

Well, what a regatta!

269 races later, we have our National Championship holders!

Congratulations to:
🥇 Westlake Boys High School
🥈 Auckland Grammar School
🥉 Macleans College

Tops Women's Teams:
🥇 WGHS - Westlake Girls High School
🥈 Nelson College for Girls
🥉 Whangārei Girls' High School

We had a fantastic finals round, with all sailors cheering on from changeover and support boats.

Also congratulations to our Silver and Bronze Fleet winners:
Rangitoto College
Nelson College for Girls

Thank you to Sail Northland, Whangarei Cruising Club and Parua Bay Yacht Club for an outstanding event, and to all the volunteers and support that goes into an event like this.

17/04/2026

Day 5 briefing - a huge effort by the race committee yesterday with 98 races sailed.

Plan for today is to complete 1 round of Swiss, then move into finals round.

Forecast is looking breezy from the north, so reefs are in.

Let's go for finals day!

16/04/2026

Briefing for Day 4!

Very light winds at the moment, waiting to see it fill in a little bit more to get underway.

15/04/2026

Bit of a wet start, but all teams are ready to hit the water!

15/04/2026

Let's go for Day 3!

We have almost completed our second round - and results are just starting to show with the hybrid Swiss Legue system.

All results can be found here:
https://events.ksail.co.uk/2026/NZSchoolsChampionships/

For results, search by team, look at the schedule for all races and results in the draw, or Results, Summary for overall placing and tie-breaks within the Fleet.

NZ Schools National Championships Event Homepage, Information, Online Notice Board and Entries

14/04/2026

Let's go for Day 2!

Reefing sails in case the forecast of 30+ kots comes through later today...

13/04/2026

Welcome to Sail Northland for the NZSS Team Sailing National Championships!