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Light airs mix it up at Airlie Beach Race Week

Competitors in Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30thAnniversary Airlie Beach Race Week sailed in conditions quite different to yesterday’s when a light 7 plus knot breeze wafted across Pioneer Bay and beyond, giving the light air specialists their chance to shine in the game of concentration.
QLD

Mass start to kick off Airlie Beach Race Week

For the first time in the history of Airlie Beach Race Week, Race Director Denis Thompson and his race management team have organised a mass start for the 119 entries on the opening day, a fine start to the 30th anniversary celebrations.
QLD

The many attractions of Airlie Beach Race Week

Entries have closed and Whitsunday Sailing Club organisers are pleased with the large jump in numbers to119 received for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, which for a range of reasons, continues to attract a profusion of boats every year.
QLD

The Last Valmadre

Almost thirty strong fleet will depart North Mole for the Voladora Race. With the fleet spread across the standard Div 1 & 2, with IRC and YAH handicaps, and the cancellation of Race 3 due to weather the leader boards are compact, and everything is still to play for.
WA

A Month Alone

It has been a month since the 18 intrepid adventures departed Les Sables d’Olonne, France, for the 2018 Golden Globe Race. A fraction of the 30,000 miles, non-stop, alone with no outside assistance journey is behind them but already the fleet is down to just thirteen.
WA

The Carnarvon Wolf

Always a pleasure to talk with our outlying clubs, this week was the Carnarvon Yacht Club as they are hosting the inaugural Horizon Power Wolf Lantzberg Regatta next weekend on the 11th and 12th August.
WA

Chutzpah: Bridesmaid no more

Bruce Taylor’s Victorian 40-footer called Chutzpah has been officially declared the IRC overall winner of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race after a 15-hour wait for the only challenger still on the course to drop out of contention.
QLD NSW

CLUB KEELBOAT SAILING COORDINATOR - The Royal Geelong Yacht Club Inc

We seek a Club Keelboat Sailing Coordinator to manage club keelboat sailing activities including the club’s summer, twilight and winter series and major regattas such as the Festival of Sails (annual event), Wooden Boat Festival (biennial event) and other state, national, and world championship events and possibly work as an instructor in our Learn to Sail Programs
VIC

2018 Queensland Clubs Conference

The 2018 Queensland Clubs Conference was hosted by the Southport Yacht Club on the 28th and 29th of July. The clubs Main Beach venue welcomed 60 representatives from over 25 clubs across Queensland and the Northern Territory.
QLD QLD Club News

The perennial and the bridesmaid vie for Gold Coast race top spot

Bruce Taylor’s hopes for a first major offshore handicap victory with his 40-footer Chutzpah from Victoria hang in the balance with the perennial Komatsu Azzurro, Shane Kearns’ two-time Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race overall winner sliding north and meeting its required average speed target with 60 nautical miles to go, as of 0900 hours on Tuesday July 31, 2018.
NSW QLD