In an effort to get the edge on their compadres come September, a dozen or so SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) entrants quietly put in successful practice at Port Douglas Race Week last week, while the rest of us were suffering the effects of the early winter chill.
The Etchells Gold Coast Championship and Australasian Championship were sailed from the Southport Yacht Club from 28-29 and 28-30 May 2022 respectively.
Australian Sailing confirms that we are aware of the state and nature of the situation regarding the Mooloolaba Bar and its current state as a hazard to navigation.
Local crew, Team Orange, took out the 2022 Mooloolaba Women’s Keelboat Regatta over the weekend of May 13 -15, in some of the most challenging conditions seen in the event’s history.
Following the success of the most recent Qoin Sail Paradise Regatta, coupled with positive feedback from competitors, sponsors and all involved, Southport Yacht Club, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, has announced that Qoin Sail Paradise 2023 will be “bigger and better than ever” come January 2, 2023. At the same time Qoin Sail Paradise will headline another Regatta, the “Summer of Sailing Series”, an event that will be open to all.
The first Instructor, Coach and Officials Information webinars, which have been supported by the Queensland Government funding for 2021-2022, have been successfully delivered.
After two years of COVID disruptions and re-schedules, the 2022 Mooloolaba Women’s Keelboat Regatta will be hotly contested on the Mooloola River from May 13 to 15, by teams from up and down Australia’s east coast.
It’s been a few years since we had the opportunity to show the wider community what we’ve got – and the community reciprocated!
We had an amazing 96 pre-registrations before the day and accepted walk-ins, resulting in an additional 60 people!
More than 100 entries across a variety of classes have so far been received for the 34th running of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), to be hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) in the Whitsunday Islands from 11 to 18 August, 2022.
Among the talk around the bar in most clubs is a discussion around who is the best all round skipper. Whitsunday Sailing Club took this as a challenge, with their inaugural Champion of Champions regatta on Saturday 5 March.
Within 15 minutes of entries opening for Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), the belle of the north was at 50 percent capacity in 15 minutes, and less than four hours later, was a complete sell-out – an unprecedented response for any major Australian sailing event.
Seen by many as Australia’s most progressive Yacht Club in recent times, Southport Yacht Club, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, has taken another significant step into the future with the opening of its spectacular Megayacht docking facility.