Early February and the 2017 18 Foot Skiff New Zealand Skiff Champs got off to a spectacular start in Auckland. Hosted by the Royal Akarana Yacht Club and stunning close boat contact footage.

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Day Two of 2017 18 Foot Skiff New Zealand Skiff Champs with the boats flying around Auckland Harbour. Hosted by the Royal Akarana Yacht Club with Dave McDiarmid and Yamaha crew crowned Champions. Looking good for the JJ's...

Video Producer: Live Sail Die - Brad Davies

Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Today is the Invitational Race where the skiffs get a chance to rev their engines...

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Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Today is the George Calligeros Trophy - Day One and Yamaha putting their marker down to the loca...

Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Race Two and Yahama hammering the locals...

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The 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship regatta began on Sydney Harbour when the Australian 18 Footers League conducted the traditional Invitation Race for all 26 regatta entrants. Unfortunately for the crews, there was little, or no, wind for the duration of the race and the course had to b...

New Zealand champion Yamaha came from behind to score a brilliant win in Race 1 of the 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, sponsored by The Winning Group, on Sydney Harbour.

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New Zealand champion Yamaha team tightened the grip on the 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, sponsored by The Winning Group, with another stunning victory in Race 2 of the championship on Sydney Harbour.

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Australia finally broke the New Zealand dominance so far in the 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, sponsored by The Winning Group, when Appliancesonline.com won an incident packed Race 3 of the championship on Sydney Harbour.

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Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Race Three - Alan Cole Memorial Trophy - Not a great day for Yamaha with some gear damage but Kn...

Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Race Four - A.J. Reynolds Trophy - Bad day with Knight Frank OCS and Yamaha picking themselves b...

Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Race Five - Bill Miller Memorial - C-Tech gets into top 3 with a third, Knight Frank pick up a 9...

Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney with strong chances for the front of the fleet with Yamaha, C-Tech, Knight Frank and Maersk Line. Race Six - 'Big Kite' Memorial - It's the weekend and wind has increased so Director of Fizz, St...

The recently crowned Australian champion Thurlow Fisher Lawyers continued the excellent form the team have shown recently with an outstanding victory in Race 4 of the 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour.

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The Asko Appliances team totally dominated the international fleet with a brilliant victory in Race 5 of the 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour.

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New Zealand’s Yamaha 18ft Skiff team responded brilliantly to a dramatic week when they dominated the high class fleet in Race 6 of the 2017 JJ Giltinan Championship on Sydney Harbour in Race Six. Despite the domination by David McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins on Yamaha, the 2017 title ha...

The Thurlow Fisher Lawyers team of Michael Coxon, Dave O’Connor and Trent Barnabas were already declared 2017 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff champions before the final race but there was tremendous interest on the result as only five points separated the next six boats.

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Live Sail Die are following the New Zealand 18 Footer fleet at the iconic JJ Giltinan Trophy in Sydney. Director of Fizz, Stephen Jones, picks up the mic and chats with Graham Catley "GC" or Godfather of Kiwi 18's - three boats in the top ten and Yamaha third overall with four out of seven race w...

Hanz & Franz Show - This time Franz went solo and took a trip to Auckland, New Zealand. He discovered a passion for the 18 Foot Skiffs - is this the end of a beautiful International 14 relationship with Hanz...?

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The European 18 Foot Skiffs are out in force competing at the Hungarian leg of the Euro Grand Prix. Hosted by the Spartacus V.E. on Lake Balaton - conditions look perfect for the flying gladiators.

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Second day of the 18ft Skiffs Hungary Grand Prix at Spartacus VE. Majestic conditions for the gladiators on Lake Balaton with local Be Light dominating the international fleet.

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Final Day at Spartacus VE and the breeze came in - racing was called off so local boat, Be Light, took the honours with Steve McLean's LED (GBR) taking top foreign boat. Excellent footage and the boats are now off to Lake Garda to compete with the Southern Hemisphere teams in July.

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The 2017 18ft Skiff Europeans Champs hosted by Circolo Vela Arco on Lake Garda. Simply said Yamaha won it - 14 races, 13 bullets and a DNF - the rest were playing catch up in the most stunning conditions so not too bad for topping up the tan. C-Tech (NZL) and Line-7 (AUS) took the other podium pl...