Last year’s OK Dinghy world championship bronze medalist, Jan Kurfeld, from Germany, has opened his challenge for this year’s world title fight with a win at the 2019 New Zealand National Championship after two very different days on the Hauraki Gulf. Five-time world champion, Nick Craig, from Britain, took second while Luke O’Connell defended his national title as first Kiwi in third overall. Continue reading Jan Kurfeld wins pre-worlds OK Dinghy Nationals in Auckland
Preview: Part 2 – Olympic champions, America’s Cup winners, round the world sailors and a host of former world champions will go head to head next week when the Symonite 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship gets underway at Wakatere Boating Club on Auckland’s North Shore. Continue reading Huge fleet to contest Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship in Auckland
The largest ever OK Dinghy event ever to be held outside Europe begins in just over 10 days in Auckland, New Zealand. The Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship has attracted 110 entries and is being held at Wakatere Boating Club on Auckland’s North Shore from 7-15 February. Continue reading Kiwi OK Dinghy fleet anticipating fantastic World Championship on home waters
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The 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship is due to begin in just 100 days time in the iconic sailing area off Takapuna on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. The championship will run from 7-15 February 2019 and will be based at Wakatere Boating Club and, with just over three months to go, preparation is in full swing.
Continue reading 100 days to 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship
The OK Dinghy Worlds in 2019 is to adopt the “sailors for the sea” best practices to produce a clean regatta.
The Sailors for the Sea’s Clean Regattas programme is designed to assist events and local communities to adopt standards and practices that will mitigate the effects of unsightly and environmentally unsafe refuse. The programme defines 25 best practices with guidelines on how to run any water based event in a sustainable way.
For more information please see sailorsforthesea.org
Entries now open for the 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship to be hosted from 7-15th February 2019, at Wakatere Boating Club, Auckland, New Zealand.
Continue reading Kiwi OK Dinghy fleet invite the World to Wakatere in 2019