News & Events

February 22, 2021

The defending Australian 18ft Skiff champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake retained the title when the team won the 2020-2021championship, which concluded on Sydney Harbour. 2020-2021 Australian champions, from left Lewis Brake, Charlie Wyatt, Jack Macartney tech2 finished the…

February 19, 2021

The BIA (Boating Industry Association) has declared an optimistic outlook for boating events in 2021 with both Sydney and Brisbane shows slated to go ahead. BIA President Darren Vaux said the Board of Directors were confident measures taken throughout 2020 had put the organisation…

February 18, 2021

In 2015, an old prop was found in the Clubroom cupboard (by Commodore Bruce Callaghan), polished up and timber mounted (by Past Commodore Roy Bowyer) to create – The BHCC Perpetual Fundraising Prop and confirm the statement that “Everything is of value”! BHCC has a constitutional…

February 16, 2021

Race Start:  1300hrs, Friday 26th March, 2021 Entries are flowing in fast for the 36th running of the East Coast classic race. Originally starting the day after the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, crews would gather on Pittwater for the very…

February 15, 2021

Didac Costa, a Spanish skipper with an international reputation He may be relatively small in stature, quiet and reserved in nature but the Catalan fire-fighter Didac Costa once more captured the hearts and minds of the Les Sables d’Olonne public and…

February 14, 2021

Main photo: Start Heat 3. Lindsay Preece Ironbark Photos Heats 3 & 4 State Championship held at Perth Dinghy Sailing Club On Saturday 6th February with weather unpredictable due to a low off the coast and winds predicted to be around 15-20 knots Easterly,…

February 14, 2021

By Bob Chapman, Sydney Flying Squadron. Main photo: Tangalooma and Top Weight crossing tacks in Race 1. Photo Bruce Kerridge. The 2021 Historic 18 Footer Australian Championship for the Galloping Ghost Trophy was conducted by the Sydney Flying Squadron (SFS) in conjunction with the…

February 14, 2021

First Asian skipper ever to finish the Race Kojiro Shiraishi, the 53-year-old Japanese solo skipper of DMG MORI, crossed the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at 10:52:58hrs UTC this Thursday 11th February to take 16th place in the Vendée Globe…

February 13, 2021

British solo skipper Pip Hare, 47, fulfilled the dream that she has held since she was a teenage sailor in her native East Anglia, England when she crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe solo non-stop round the world race at 00:57:30…

February 13, 2021

Propspeed, leading innovator of underwater foul-release coatings, announced a massive investment in global expansion. Building on the brand’s recent…

February 10, 2021

Four state championships and the addition of Super Group racing to Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta will intensify the kaleidoscope of colour and course area changes will spread the action around the natural amphitheatre of Sydney Harbour over the two-day series, March…

February 10, 2021

After 93 days of racing on the Vendée Globe there is a head to head, France v Switzerland match race for 17th place. Racing in near identical Finot Conq IMOCA Stéphane Le Diraison and Alan Roura have been duelling within two miles of each…