Yachting NZ
New Zealand sailing coach Rosie Chapman (R) gives advice to Laser Radial sailor Sophia Morgan out on Auckland s harbour.
Rosie Chapman is succeeding in her mission to get more Kiwi girls sailing, she tells Suzanne McFadden, in the first of a series on female coaches and leaders making a difference in high performance sport. It’s fitting that one of Rosie Chapman’s first boats was a dinghy called Trial and Error. She admits that’s exactly the path she took early in her sailing journey. She obviously got it right, going on to sail for Great Britain in the women’s 470, and now coaching the top Kiwi yachtswomen in the Laser Radial class.
Press Release – NZ Maritime Museum
In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled
It Takes a Village on the 3rd of March.
Creatives and experts line up to each riff in under seven minutes and referring to only 20 slides on the many and intricate elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner
America, to the art of photographing the foiling challengers and defender on the Waitematā Harbour in 2020-21.
Yacht-designer, America’s Cup Hall of Fame inductee, and according to the lippy and starry Cup-veteran Dennis Connor ‘the best brain in yachting’ Tom Schnackenberg will deal to the evolution of Auld Mug yachts over the competition’s 170-year history. Hamish Ross, the lawyer who wrote a doctorate on Cup legalities, will stick to his knitting as well as point out some of the race’s peculi
It
Takes a Village on the 3rd of March.
Creatives and
experts line up to each riff in under seven minutes and
referring to only 20 slides on the many and intricate
elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the
design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner
America, to the art of photographing the foiling
challengers and defender on the Waitematā Harbour in
2020-21.
Yacht-designer, America’s Cup Hall of Fame
inductee, and according to the lippy and starry Cup-veteran
Dennis Connor ‘the best brain in yachting’ Tom
Schnackenberg will deal to the evolution of Auld Mug yachts
over the competition’s 170-year history. Hamish Ross, the