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First Tracks win International Etchells 2023 Coffs Harbour Championship
Peter “Billy” Merrington, Steve “Mothy” Jarvin and Ian McKillop on AUS1485 First Tracks have won the International Etchells 2023 Coffs Harbour Championship offshore from the Coffs Harbour Yacht Club. With a picket fence scorecard, 1, 1, 1, 1, [2], the only boat to take…
Ocean Race Sailors struggle … Dude, there is no more Nutella!
Main photo: The Ocean Race 2022-23 Leg 7 Team Malizia. Rosalin Kuiper at the bowsprit. Photo Antoine Auriol / Team Malizia / The Ocean Race Fleets making steady, if slower than desired, progress towards Genova If there wasn’t already enough urgency…
Female 18 Footer Opportunity
Main photo: Two all-girl teams at the Giltinan Championship in 2013. Photo by Frank Quealey photo The League’s search is on for 2023-24 season Female participation in sport in 2023 is reaching very high levels of achievement and spectator approval as…
Last Sailor in Golden Globe Race 2022 finishes with no food
Main photo: After 277days the last Chichester, Jeremy OLLEANNA crossing Les Sables d’Olonne finishline. Photo: JL Lhomond It’s all over! Once again, the third edition of the Golden Globe Race has delivered an incredibly spectacular human adventure that no one could ever have imagined…
Farewell ‘Gentleman’ Jim
Vale Jim Hardy Sir James Hardy, perhaps the best-known Australian yachtsman of the 20th Century, has died peacefully in Adelaide aged 90. The three-time America’s Cup helmsman, Olympian, world champion and Admiral’s Cup winner embodied the Corinthian ideals of the sport during a time…
Prizemoney and Subsidies for 13ft & 16ft Skiff Sailing in Sydney
Manly 16ft Skiff Sailing Club and St George Sailing Club are increasing prize money for the 13ft and 16ft Skiff Classes and offering generous subsidies for new and 2nd hand boats including the junior pathway classes of Flying…
Winners declared as all celebrate Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
One final windward/leeward race on Port Phillip in Melbourne decided the winners of Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s (RMYS) Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) today and Melbourne dished up another beautiful winter’s day on the water, one to be remembered. Claire…
Magpie swoop second Etchells regatta in a row
The third day of the International Etchells Australasian Championship was sailed on Sunday 11 June and despite the best efforts of their competitors, the team onboard AUS1486 Magpie skippered by Graeme Taylor, with Richie Allanson and James Mayo swooped in to…
Paddleboarder rescues three men on giant inflatable duck
From Marine Industry News UK: A paddleboarder has been credited as a ‘real lifesaver’ after assisting three men on a giant inflatable duck as it drifted out into the Bristol Channel. According to an eyewitness, three men pumped up an inflatable duck on the beach…
Pearling Lugger Penguin Restoration Update
Great progress is being made at the Queensland Maritime Museum by a small team of volunteers to restore the 115-year-old Pearling Lugger, Penguin, and preserve her for another 115 years. Work started last year. The hull has been…
Experience and youth a panacea for success at Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
Main photo: Salamander III (second from right) on the first work yesterday. Photo Andrea Francolini, AWKR Sabina Rosser is on her 29th AWKR. Photo Andrea Francolini, AWKR Sabina Rosser has plenty of knowledge to impart and a wealth of stories to share when it…
International Etchells 2023 Australasian Championship Day 1
The first day of the International Etchells Australasian Championship was exceptionally challenging with breeze from west, round to sou’east, and sou-west over the course of the day. “It was lovely Mooloolaba winter weather” said Malcolm Page, tactician on RacerCC currently placed…
