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18ft Skiffs: Spring Championship, Race 4 for Eric Bowen Memorial Trophy
The Noakes Youth team of Tom Cunich, George Richardson and Jed Cruikshank took full advantage of the 3-buoys handicap system to come from behind over the final lap of the course and take out Race 4 of the 18 footer Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today.
71st JJ Giltinan: Tech2 retain their lead after two races
tech2’s team overcame an epic, race long battle with her arch rival Yandoo Winning Group to score a sensational, and possibly controversial, win in Race 2 of the JJ Giltinan
SB20 national title to be held on the Bay October 24-27, 2013
For the first time in Australian SB20 class history, the sportsboat fleet’s national title will be held on Victorian waters drawing up to 20 electrifying one-design 20 footers…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Pioneer Bay Race today
With another light on for breeze weather forecast today, the record fleet of 178 boats competing at the 34th Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) will shift gears as the much anticipated Bay Race, which normally occurs on the final day, has been moved up to today.
Why I’m cheering for New Zealand
I’m a very proud Australian. I will never dispose of my Aussie passport, and I won’t become a New Zealand citizen unless the laws change and I’m…
Entries are open for Hamilton Island Race Week 2020
Within two hours of the Notice of Race for Hamilton Island Race Week 2020 being posted, the first entry had been lodged. And, for the second consecutive year, the yacht
Sailing Champions League Returns for Geelong’s 2023 Festival of Sails
The ‘club versus club’ sailing competition – the VIC Sailing League – will be returning to the 2023 Festival of Sails as local teams battle it out for a shot at the Asia Pacific finals of the SAILING Champions League in May 2023.
A Tight Finish for the Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Race
A huge congratulations to Malcolm Dickson and the beautiful Sarau taking Line Honours and First Place in the Adventure-Monohull division at 1453 Yesterday in a race time of 10 days, 1 hour, 53 minutes, 50 seconds. This sets the first race record for a new destination of Southport.
Airlie Beach Race Week: Will conditions play ball at all on Day 4?
Day 4 of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) after competitors made the most of lay day yesterday, sightseeing and shopping locally, or on adventures further afoot, returning this morning to find organisers at Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) had displayed AP ashore with a 9.45am advising, “No breeze on the race course.”
18ft Skiff Racing Sponsorships
Long-term sponsorships in sport are rare and any sport which has been fortunate enough to have one must be either lucky or be doing something ‘right’, or both. To have two sponsorships which have been on-going for the past 27 years, and are preparing for another season of racing, can only mean that the ‘product’ is a very good one.
New Zealand Olympic Team marks 99 days until Tokyo
The New Zealand Olympic Team marked 99 days to the Tokyo Olympics today with a call for Kiwis to get on board and back the athletes in the home stretch.
Festival of Sails Delivers Spectacular Day as Division Winners Decided
It was another magnificent day on Corio Bay for the final day of racing at the Festival of Sails. Racing got underway on time with the yachts heading out for a special course out the channel in a building sea breeze.
Half of the fleet still at sea in 50th Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race
While the crew of line honours winner Maritimo 11 is celebrating their win and have their fingers crossed for a clean sweep of all handicap divisions, half of the fleet is still at sea in the 50th anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race.
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week: Big winds return for Round the Island Race
Competitors were rubbing their hands with glee as a decent breeze returned in time for the famed Lowes Petroleum Race Day Round the Island Race at Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW).
Big Pete (Noakes Sailing) takes charge after four races at the 73rd JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship
The two short course races on Day three of the Winning Group 73rd JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship produced close racing on the track, and laid a wonderful platform for a close contest over the remaining five races of the regatta on Sydney Harbour.
Menace leads heading into final round of the MC38 Aussie Champs
This coming weekend the only Kiwi MC38 Menace will hit the start line for the final regatta of the MC38 Australian Season Championship. Currently sitting just one single point ahead…
Sydney Harbour Regatta day one smiles and spills
Sydney Harbour Regatta’s opening day brought together a multi-club effort spanning the harbour and offshore for the 185-strong fleet from around the state of New South Wales and Victoria. Conditions
Tight TP52 competition at Hamilton Island Race Week
CYCA Rear Commodore and TP52 Zen crew member Tom Barker experienced a full-circle moment as he lifted his two-year-old daughter Bella onto his shoulders during the post-race presentation area on lay day eve at Hamilton Island Race Week (HIRW) 2022.
Peccadillo set to smash the 2023 Melbourne to Hobart Race Record for Multihulls
Peccadillo set to smash the 2023 Melbourne to Hobart Race Record for Multihulls. It’s been 30 years since a multihull has competed in the Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, and there’s every chance this year’s only multihull entrant might smash the existing race record if the weather forecast shared by Race Director David Schuller holds tru
andoo Comanche and Rex to chase Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race records
When the gun fires sending the fleet on its way in the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race at 1pm, on Friday 31 March, Andoo Comanche’s crew will be chasing the race record of 17 hours 10 minutes 31 seconds, set by Black Jack just last year.
