The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron open team has taken out the debut National Sailing League Oceania event, earning the honour of ‘best club’ plus a wildcard entry to the Sailing Champions League Final in St Moritz in August.
Nominations for the 2019 New South Wales/ACT, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania Australian Sailing Awards open today, with applications being accepted across a range of individual and club categories as well as two new categories for 2019.
The 2019 Australian Para Sailing Championships will be held as part of an Inclusive Classes Regatta at Queensland’s Southport Yacht Club from August 2-4.
Entries are now open for the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with the just-launched Notice of Race (NOR) encouraging sailors from around the world to join the historic 75th running of the ‘Everest’ of ocean racing.
Australian Sailing and the Australian National Maritime Museum are excited to announce that nominations have opened today for the prestigious Australian Sailing Hall of Fame.
If early indications are anything to go by, Hamilton Island Race Week 2019 could already be on course for a record fleet when it is staged on the beautiful, island-laced tropical waters of the Whitsunday Passage from August 17-24.
​​​​​​​The inaugural TP52 Gold Cup resumed in earnest on the final day of SailFest Newcastle, with the seven-strong fleet completing four windward-leeward races in challenging offshore conditions.
The fastest rooster on Newcastle Harbour will be crowned on Saturday March 30 when Port Hunter 16 Foot Skiff Sailing Club holds its legendary Cock-of-the-Harbour as part of the inaugural 2019 SailFest Newcastle Regatta.
Despite the disappointing news in September last year that sailing would not be included in the International Paralympic Committee’s 2024 Sports Program for the Paris Games and beyond, Australian Sailing will be maintaining a Para Sailing Program in 2019.
On March 7th, the Special Olympics Australian team will leave Australia with all the other team Australia members to compete in the Special Olympics World Summer Games.