News & Events
Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup – Matador snatches Act 1 victory
March 27, 2023
David Doherty’s Matador, the reigning TP52 Gold Cup champion, has taken victory on countback in Act 1 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup, two further windward/leeward races deciding the winner on the Manly Circle today. The day’s third and second places were enough to…
Easter crackdown on wearing lifejackets
March 27, 2023
Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) is launching a crackdown on boaties failing to wear lifejackets across the state these Easter holidays. MSQ and the Queensland Police Service (QPS) will be out in force along almost the whole coastline between 1 April and 16 April. The…
Airlie Beach Race Week 2023: Early entries reach 100
March 24, 2023
Main photo: REO Speedwagon noses in front of the big boats in the mass start race. Photo by Andrea Francolini, ABRW Berthing for yachts and big multihulls for the 35th edition of Airlie Beach Race Week has been exhausted, as entries reach 100 early on,…
Golden Globe Race ‘Code Orange’. Paying the price for a Cape Horn rounding
March 24, 2023
Ian Herbert-Jones approaches Cape Horn in extreme conditions with a broken windvane, after days of ‘biblical’ conditions. The battle of the doldrums and the GGR crown between Kirsten Neuschäfer (ZAF) Minnehaha and Abhilash Tomy (IND) Bayanat is on! Dateline: Les Sables…
2025 Melbourne Osaka Cup – Launched, Ready to Race
March 22, 2023
The 9th Melbourne Osaka Cup, the longest longitudinal short-handed crewed race in the world, is open for entry. With 152 expressions of interest from around 11 countries, the 5500 nautical miles which traverses the Pacific from South to North is expected…
2023 Optimist Dinghy Victorian Championships
March 22, 2023
MYC’s Savannah Deeth in action Mornington Yacht Club hosted the 2023 Optimist Dinghy Victorian Championships over the Labour Day long weekend. 78 entries were spread across three Optimist fleets with competitors coming from WA, SA, Tasmania, NSW and all over Victoria.
Manly 16s – 100th Year Club Champions Confirmed
March 21, 2023
Why stop at four? That’s what victorious Moonen Yachts skipper Daniel Turner was asking after he muscled himself into rare company with a fourth straight Manly 16ft club championship on Saturday. Turner draws alongside Escapade’s Russell Slade (1939-43) on the list of skippers to…
2023 Offshore Superboat Championship – After the tempest comes the party
March 20, 2023
Indeed it did at Geelong. So after the abandonment of racing on the Saturday, it seemed like all the spectators who missed out went home and got reinforcements for the Sunday, so as to literally force the weather gods to let the Geelong Round…
Wildcat Mackay Hailed Australia’s Best New Tourism Business
March 20, 2023
The saying “from little things big things grow” rings true for Mackay entrepreneurs Asher and Julie Telford, whose fledgling company, ‘Wildcat Mackay’, has just been announced Australia’s best new tourism business. Accepting the Gold award at the 2022 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards, Julie Telford…
18ft Skiffs Queen of the Harbour
March 20, 2023
Main photo: Karly Zinga, 18 footer Queen of Sydney Harbour with the Yandoo team of John Winning, Fang Warren and Josh Porebski after the race Karly Zinga became the Australian 18 Footers League’s Queen of Sydney Harbour when she teamed with John Winning, Fang Warren…
Spice Islands Darwin Ambon Yacht Race
March 17, 2023
The annual Spice Islands Darwin Ambon Yacht Race is a 630nm international sailing classic starting in Darwin Australia and finishing in Ambon Indonesia. All types of sailors and sailing boats are welcome. The south-east trade winds dominate the weather and can…
Ocean Rower Michelle Lee – the countdown is on!
March 17, 2023
What a difference this week has made. Michelle has made incredible progress, completing almost 100nm in the last 5 day thanks to favourable conditions and great easterly winds. As of today, she has just under 400nm to go, with her end point set to…
