Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw sailed in a league of its own at the three-day Farr 40 National Championship for the John Calvert-Jones Trophy. Eight wins from 10 starts saw the crew cream the rest of the fleet and create an extraordinary 22-point buffer back to second.
Alan and Tom Quick have added the Yoti Sydney 38 Australian Championship to their trophy cabinet at Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta, which finished late this afternoon.
Sailing is a rapidly growing sport and recreation creating demand for more facilities.
The Wollongong Yacht Club has occupied a small building at Wollongong Harbour for the last five years but it has always had limited space.
On Monday Wollongong MP Paul Scully had some good news for the club when he awarded it $15,000 for the construction of an awning and pergola. “This will expand their space in the cafe area,†he said.
Nick Press and Andrew ‘Noddy’ Hay (Sydney Sailmakers) have taken out the first major 12ft skiff regatta for 2018-2019, the Upper Harbour Championship, hosted by Lane Cove 12 Foot Sailing Skiff Club (LC 12ft SSC) this afternoon.
The 50th edition of the Largest Regatta in the World was held yesterday: 2,689 competitors, 28 thousand sailors & over 300 thousand spectators. Australia and New Zealand were well represented by few of our sailing members
With less than one month to go until the start of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 presented by Jaguar Land Rover, training for the sailing competition has been stepping up as experienced Sailability coaches hone the skills of former Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in Hansa 303s.
The vice-grip on Neville Crichton’s Maserati crew unexpectedly loosened when the umpire nabbed the chasing Marcus Blackmore’s Hooligan in the penultimate race of the MC38 season’s Act 4 on Sydney Harbour.
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Trusts raised just under $30,000 at a dinner held at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS) on Friday evening.
The Invictus Games is an international adaptive sporting event for wounded, injured and ill service men and women, both active duty and veteran. The Games promote the healing power of sport and physical activity to inspire recovery and support rehabilitation.
Renowned Coffs Harbour sailor Pierre Gal is putting the finishing touches to a bespoke, “home-made†IRC 34-footer with the aim of using the 2018 Pantaenius Newport Coffs Coast race as its maiden offshore outing.
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.
The South East Sports Academy (SESA) Individual Athlete Program (IAP) is a scholarship program that enhances the development of talented athletes in the South East region of NSW.