The final day of Sail Auckland 2012 was plagued by light winds and extremely shifty conditions.

The first long term ISAF Internship has started this week with Japanese Olympic Committee funded and JSAF Nominated National Sports Intern Go Hashimoto arriving in the offices here in Southampton, UK.

Yachting Australia has announced the 2012 Australian Youth Sailing Team to contest the Four Star Pizza ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships with the team featuring a mix of seasoned campaigners and newcomers set to race in Ireland this July.

The Notice of Race for the 2012 Paralympic Sailing Competition taking place in Weymouth, Great Britain from Wednesday 22 August-Sunday 9 September has been released.

Due to a system upgrade, the ISAF Sailor Classification system will be unavailable to users from 09:00 UTC on Tuesday 7 February until 23:59 UTC on Wednesday 8 February 2012.

ISAF is pleased to announce that there will be a series of Kiteboarding format trials held in Santander, Spain from 21-25 March. The Prince Felipe High Performance Centre that is hosting the evaluation event will also host the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.

Applications to the ISAF Athlete Participation Programme for the 2012 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship have been extended until 13 February 2012.

Denmark, Finland and Spain took the remaining Women's Match Racing spots for the London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition after coming through a tough qualification regatta.

Strong winds and tough competition proved to be the knock out punch for three of the nine teams as they were eliminated from the 2012 Women's Match Racing International Country Olympic Qualifying Regatta.

Team Telefónica clinched their third victory from three legs in the Volvo Ocean Race on Saturday, as less than nine hours separated the top five teams at the finish of the 3,051 nautical mile (nm) second stage of Leg 3 from the Maldives to Sanya in China.

The six members of the 2012 U.S. Paralympic Team - Sailing were selected based on performances at US Sailing's 2012 Rolex Miami OCR, held between 23-28, in Miami, USA. And the IFDS Worlds held two weeks earlier in Port Charlotte, USA.

Afrodite Kyranakou and Jeske Kisters of Netherlands held onto their top position and became the Women's Junior World Champions with a small margin over the defending champion Annika Bochmann with Elisabeth Panuschka of Germany. In the Mixed/Men's fleet the Italian crew Simon Sivitz and Jas Farneti cemented their dominance of the regatta with a second placing behind New Zealand's Gareth Moore and Ben Goodwin.

As the ISAF London 2012 Olympic Sailing website is officially launched we take you back to where sailing's long Olympic history began...

With 177 days until the London 2012 Olympic Games, the International Sailing Federation has launched their Olympic website.

The Notice of Race for the 2012 ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship has been released.

The ISAF World Sailing Rankings for 1 February 2012 have been released.

Recommendation for full accreditation of the Omani National Sail Training Programme has been successfully approved by ISAF. The five day inspection from 10-14 November 2011 included a comprehensive review of the programme management combined with visits to sailing schools at Marina Banda Al Rowdha and Mussannah.

For the first time in its sixteen year history, Sail Auckland will be hosted at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club. More than two hundred competitors from thirteen countries begin racing on the Waitemata Harbour on 4 February and runs until 7 February in the Olympic, Paralympic and other invited classes.

Following the request for proposals, ISAF are pleased to announce that they have received entrants for, six Women's Skiff and seven Mixed Mutlihulls and wish to invite them all to the evaluation event in Santander, Spain in March.

Sydney sailors head the leaderboard at the end of the first day of the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta, with Jordan Reece and David Chapman both undefeated after a tough day on the water.