What do you get when you mix together 28 boats, an abandoned race, a four-hour long drifter and a confused weather system swapping between torrential rain with a dash of rainbows?
The second race of the ORCV Winter Series brought with it a sunny day with a light northerly wind. The day started at 9 am with 246 crew onboard 42 yachts who made their way out to the start line for the annual flare shoot on a very reflective bay. The forecasted 10-15 knot northerly had not arrived, and sadly never did, as the fleet slowly made their way south to Blairgowrie.
ORCV Coastal Sprint Races is a new initiative from ORCV Sailing for 2019/20 season in response to skippers asking for more Category 3 races. They have been designed to provide crew development and a pathway for longer ocean races. Each ORCV Coastal Sprint race aims to have skippers and crew home Saturday evening.
Parents, are you over the ‘I’m bored’, ‘There’s nothing to do’ and the dreaded ‘Are We There Yet’ already experienced these school holidays? Quit their grumbles and get them out of the house.
Entries across all classes and divisions are shaping up well for Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing as the organiser, Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC), announced the winner of the early entries prize draw which offered the full value of the event’s entry fee in food and drink vouchers at the club.
Chris Symonds (TAS) and Alison Weatherly (VIC) have claimed Silver at the 2019 Para World Sailing Championships competing in the Hansa 303 Men’s and Women’s fleets.
The Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club was the big winner of the 2019 NSW/ACT State Sailing Awards, taking out the Club of the Year Award and members Jan Howard and Mary Holly winning the inaugural SheSails Award.
South of Perth Yacht Club will hold the annual Ti-Tu Trophy - an event commemorating the fine steam powered vessel built in 1901 for WA’s first Attorney-General, Septimus Burt.Â
The 2020 dates for Australia’s oldest annual sporting event, the Festival of Sails in Geelong have just been finalised with tens of thousands of people expected to enjoy Australia Day festivities along the Geelong Waterfront from January 25 to 27, 2020.