News & Events
ORCV launches new series aimed at transitioning crews into ocean racing
August 7, 2019
In the midst of launching its new Category 3 event, the Coastal Sprint Series, aimed specifically at helping crews make the move into ocean racing, the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) is pleased to announce online entry is open and the Notice of…
William Bligh – Hero or Villain?
August 7, 2019
Australian National Maritime Museum opens ground-breaking new exhibition ANMM Bligh Exhibit – Hero or Villain? The Australian National Maritime Museum will open their latest exhibition Bligh – Hero or Villain? this week – the first major exhibition the Museum has created after…
Top ten world championship finish for Aussie 29er sailors in Poland
August 7, 2019
At the Zhik 29er World Championship in Gdynia, Poland, Australia’s Archie Cropley and Max Paul combined skillfully on a tough Baltic coast track to finish sixth in the open results from a starting list of 175 skiff teams. Zhik 29er World Championship – Cropley…
Great Barrier Reef poachers fined and convicted
August 7, 2019
Marine parks helicopter patrols across North Queensland are continuing to catch fishers out poaching in green zones, with several offenders fined and convicted last month. A series of no-take green zone poaching offences recently went before the Cairns, Townsville and Mackay Magistrate Courts, with fines up to $2850 and…
Sydney Smuggler pockets key trophies in Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race
August 7, 2019
Sebastian Bohm’s Rogers 46 Smuggler pocketed all the key trophies in the 13th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race, redemption for three years ago when a penalty cost the crew first place on corrected time. The start of the annual Royal Queensland Yacht…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week entries reach capacity
August 7, 2019
Organisers from Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) are thrilled to announce that entries for SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) have reached capacity before the event’s closing date; with more than a dozen boats waitlisted should space become available at ‘Maggie Island’. “Apart from all…
Death of Geoff Ruggles – one of two surviving men from first Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
August 6, 2019
Photo at top: Wayfarer crew in the 1945 Sydney-Hobart race. Left to right: Geoff Ruggles, Len Wilsford, Brigadier Arthur Mills, (behind him Peter Luke, Bill Lieberman, a lawyer and Freddie Harris, who was a fruit and flower agent. Geoff Ruggles, one of two surviving…
Coral Expeditions to share Christmas with the King of Saparua
August 6, 2019
Guests to spend Christmas Day with King on December voyage to Raja Ampat Coral Expeditions surprise guests on its 12-night Spice Islands and Raja Ampat cruise, departing 21 December 2019, with an unforgettable experience of Christmas lunch with the King of…
Noakes Shipyard responds to local concerns
July 31, 2019
The ABC reported yesterday, on a variety of outlets, about a development application by Noakes shipyard to remove two jetties and replace them with a floating dry dock in Berrys Bay. Noakes welcomes the public discussion. Noakes Berrys Bay Drydock Some neighbours made statements that deserve…
Mooloolaba Yacht Club Wins Sailing Australia SheSails Award for QLD
July 30, 2019
Main photo: The winning Mooloolaba Youth team of Emily McGregor, Paris Van Den Herik and Sarah Johnson Mooloolaba Yacht Club’s Womens’ Skills Development Program took out the SheSails award for QLD at the annual Australian Sailing gala awards night, held at the Royal Queensland Yacht Club…
Fleet flocks to Gold Coast as leaderboard takes shape
July 29, 2019
Main photo: Bush Paul Group, one of 11 TP52s in this year’s race crosses the finish line in the Gold Coast. Photo byMichael Jennings. What was a jog for the first day and a half has turned into a stroll for the majority of…
Out-of-Control Superyacht Crushes Yacht
July 29, 2019
Super yacht Blue Magic went out of control while berthing at Lecce, southern Italy destroying a berthed yacht. …