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The 2024 Australian Marine Industry Awards Celebrating Success
2024 Australian Marine Industry Awards Winners – Photo By Salty Dingo The remarkable achievements of the Australian Marine Industry were celebrated last night, 22 May 2024, at the annual Australian Marine Industry Awards Gala Dinner, the concluding event of the ASMEX 2024 Conference, held…
Expresso Martini to take on best at Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week
Expresso Martini and crew are ready to face their foes – Photo By Judi Marshall Entries for Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 continue to flow in and competition is set to ignite in the Trailable Yachts and…
Still time to enter Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta 2024
Australia’s longest running women’s keelboat competition, the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), has so far attracted 26 entries, with organisers at Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron expecting up to 35 boats for their annual event, traditionally sailed over the Kings Birthday weekend on Port Phillip. The 32nd running…
Near record fleet for 2024 Apollo Bay Race and ORCV Coastal Championship Decider
As the sailing season draws to a close, offshore sailors are now focusing on the Melbourne to Apollo Bay Race which starts at 9am on Saturday the 25th of May. The 52 nautical mile Category 3 coastal sprint is the final event of the…
Mooloolaba Yacht Club Women’s Keelboat Regatta Hits the River, May 31 to June 2
After last year’s feisty competition – which saw the top three teams barely separated on points – the 2024 Mooloolaba Women’s Keelboat Regatta will be hotly contested on the Mooloolah River from May 31 to June 2, by crews from up and down Australia’s…
Wet And Wild End To Huge Sail Port Stephens Regatta
Main Photo: Sail Port Stephens Bay Series 2024 – Day 1 – J70 fleet and Black Betty – Photo By Promocean Media Sail Port Stephens 2024 has wrapped up after 11 huge days of sailing, spanning three weeks and involving 215 boats. It culminated…
Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week – 100 entries and counting
Main photo: Thrill seeking Extreme 40’s are returning. Photo by Andrea Francolini ABRW Entries for Ocean Dynamics and Mount Gay Airlie Beach Race Week 2024 have already touched 100 and continue to grow as organiser, Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC), announces a new Regatta Director, Jenni Birdsall.
First entries in for 32nd Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
Main photo: Monica Jones and her Sequel crew on a run last year. Photo by Andrea Francolini / AWKR Australian sailing identity, Wendy Tuck and Queensland sailor, Lea Foster, were quick off the bat when Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron opened entries for the 2024 Australian…
Sail Port Stephens attracts biggest and best ever fleet
Just when it looked like the Sail Port Stephens Passage Series couldn’t grow any further, the iconic regatta has once again surpassed trends and expectations with a record fleet of 115 entries gathering ahead of the Monday April 15 start. The timing coincides with…
2024 Around French Island Catamaran Challenge
Well, the 2024 Around French Island Race has been run and won! The event ran extremely well, and we were very lucky with a moody Gippsland day greeting just over 40 competitors providing good winds to enable them to successfully complete the circumnavigation of…
Best of the best to contest national yachting title in Newcastle
Main photo: Cock of the Harbour Race. Photo by Salty Dingo Australia’s fastest and foremost racing yachts will arrive in Newcastle early next month to contest one of the premier prizes in offshore yachting, the Australian Yachting Championships, from April 5-7. Newcastle Cruising Yacht…
Coral Coast Rally 2024
The Coral Coast Rally began many years ago and was originally called the Dent to Dunk yacht race. After Cyclones Yasi and Larry twice over destroyed the Dunk Island Resort, the race was scaled down and renamed the Coral Coast Rally.
