Emirates Team New Zealand Youth Training Programme

10/04/2026

18/09/2025

🌎✨ The Women’s Match Racing Worlds have kicked off in Chicago and we’re stoked to see two former YTP teams taking on the best in the world!

🔥 Megan Thomson’s 2.0 Racing opened with 4 straight wins 💪 (crew: Tiana Wittey, Josi Andres, Charlotte Porter, Hattie Rogers).

⚡️ Also representing is Edge Women’s Match Racing – skippered by Celia Willison with Clare Costanzo, Phoebe Buckland, Serena Woodall & Ruby Scholten.

We’re so proud to see our YTP alumni flying the flag on the world stage – go hard girls! 💙⛵️

08/09/2025

Incredibly proud of our two RNZYS teams who flew the flag at the John Messenger Women’s Match Racing Regatta, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia over the weekend.

🥈 Silver for Performance Programme team YTG Racing- Ella Arnold, Alissa Marshall, Maddie Rist, Phoebe Buckland & Sophie-Jo Hawkins after a nail-biting 3–2 final against the home team 👏

💪 A strong 4th for our Mastercard Youth Training Programme team -Teaghan Denney, Apikera Baker, Georgia Howlett, Rye Brady & Sienna Walsh who won 50% of their round robin races and just missed the podium in the petit final. These girls are loaded with potential! 🌟

Huge congrats to both teams, awesome effort and amazing ambassadors for RNZYS! 💙⚓️
Full results: https://www.matchracingresults.com/2025/cyca-john-messenger/

31/08/2025

Stunning day out last week with the YTP crew scattered across boats supporting the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS)'s Women’s Day Out. Such a fun way to bring people together, and the squad represented themselves brilliantly!

18/08/2025

A massive congratulations to Noah Malpot's Performance Programme VMG Racing, who last week took out the New Zealand Youth Match Racing Championships. 🏆
The team overcame Lucas Day's 'Happy Days Racing' 3-2 after dropping the first two races.
Read the full story here: https://rnzys.org.nz/vmg-racing-stay-chill-to-claim-oceanbridge-nz-youth-match-racing-title-in-blustery-southerlies/

13/04/2024

NEW ZEALAND KEELBOAT NATIONALS:

Equal 1st at the end of day 1 for Our Youth Training Programme (YTP) and Performance Programme (PP) sailors.

With Sam Scott’s YTP team currently leading on count back to Josh Hydes Waitemata racing PP team.

Our Youth sailors are really making waves at the New Zealand Keelboat Nationals. With representation in 6 out of the 11 teams competing, we're so proud of our sailors competing this weekend at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club (RAYC).

📊 RESULTS: https://rayc.co.nz/sail.../24_KeelboatNationals_Results.htm
📸 Suellen Hurling / Live Sail Die

27/02/2024

Our 2024 YTP sailors couldn't be more excited to take these boats out for our first sailing day this weekend!! 👀⛵️

It’s been 14 years since the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) launched 10 Elliott 7s for the Mastercard Youth Training Programme, and with that fleet now safely delivered to their new owners at Buckland’s Beach Yacht Club (BBYC), the time has come to launch the brand new boats. Gifted by...

26/02/2024

Nathaniel Short’s mum offered one sage snippet of advice as he began learning to sail on Lake Ngaroto, deep in the Waikato. "Don’t get stuck in the mud."

08/02/2024

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) presents an afternoon dedicated to the exceptional women making waves in the marine industry and across New Zealand. Coinciding with the Moana Auckland festivities, this gathering serves as a platform for inspiration, empowerment, and motivation for women...

08/02/2024