Hamilton Island Race Week 2023 got underway in stunning conditions, with sunshine and a south-easterly breeze of 18-22 knots for the fleet of close to 180.
World Sailing is pleased to announce the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia as the host of the 2023 World Sailing Youth Match Racing World Championship, to be conducted from Saturday 9 December to Friday 15 December 2023.
Australia’s internationally renowned Hamilton Island Race Week gets underway this Saturday evening with the traditional skipper’s sunset welcome party before racing commences Sunday August 20.
The final day and no wind to speak of on the horizon on an otherwise beautiful sunny day, as officials at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) 35th Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sail waited until near the 1pm cut off, unable to drum up a skerrick of wind, so all racing was abandoned and results stand as they are.
The 4th NT Women's Regatta hosted by Darwin Sailing Club on the waters of Fannie Bay attracted 56 competitors. It was champagne sailing at it's best, in more ways than one.
The Clermont Outback Regatta was an incredible event that has shown what can be achieved when a small group of motivated and like-minded people get together and collaborate, on what may have appeared to be an outlandish idea at first.
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.”
There are two Victorian sailors in the contingent of 51 Australians sailing the World Championships for the 10 Olympic classes from the Hague, Netherlands (10-20th August)