Late on Sunday July 28, 2019, Wild Oats X, the Oatley family’s Reichel Pugh 66 skippered by Mark Richards, took line honours in the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race for the third time – and on ‘Ricko’s’ birthday. Wild Oats X’s official finish time for the 384-nautical-mile season-opener was 10:28:27 pm, giving them an elapsed…
DetailsOne of Australia’s most successful maxi yachts, the vintage Bumblebee IV, will celebrate its 40th birthday at Hamilton Island Race Week next month. Now owned by well-known offshore sailor Graham ‘Scooter’ Eaton and based on the Gold Coast, the sleek 73-footer, which contested the inaugural Race Week in 1984, will be back this year for…
DetailsEntries are now open for the Gold Coast’s 2020 premier sailing event the Bartercard Sail Paradise, Australia’s east coast sailing scene will become even more exciting next summer with the staging of the 11th Bartercard Sail Paradise series on the beautiful Gold Coast. The last few years we’ve had amazing feedback on what a great…
DetailsThe Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is pleased to announce another offshore race has been added to its 2021 150th celebration calendar – the 2021 Auckland to Gold Coast Ocean Race . The proposed start date is Sunday 30th May 2021* from the RNZYS in Auckland New Zealand, and finishing 1,270nm away at the Southport…
DetailsCats and tris will be flying hulls in close encounters at Australia’s premier offshore regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week, which will be staged from August 17-24. And while those remarkable multihulls do their aerobatics, they will be surrounded by 200 or more monohull sailboats, ranging from Grand Prix level offshore racers to production yachts, classic…
DetailsMedia Release – 13 June 2019 Event: Inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race organised by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron starts August 2, 2019 from Moreton Bay, race distance 530nm The fleet for the inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race is taking shape with the…
DetailsMEDIA RELEASE May 30, 2019 by Rob Mundle Chinese Whisper, the yacht that claimed every possible prize in last year’s 5500-nautical-mile Melbourne to Osaka two-handed race, is among the latest in a record run of entries for this year’s Hamilton Island Race Week. The 18.9m sloop was raced to Osaka by…
DetailsMedia Release 28 April 2019 Event: National Sailing League Final, April 26 – 28 hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron with fleet racing onboard Elliott 7s on Sydney Harbour over three days Host wins battle of the clubs at the debut National Sailing League Oceania event The Royal…
DetailsMedia Release 27 April 2019 Event: National Sailing League Final, April 26 – 28 hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron with fleet racing onboard Elliott 7s on Sydney Harbour over three days CYCA storms the National Sailing League on day two The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia was the big mover on…
DetailsMedia Release 26 April 2019 Event: National Sailing League Final, April 26 – 28 hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron with fleet racing onboard Elliott 7s on Sydney Harbour over three days National Sailing League makes its Australian debut Day one of Australia’s first-ever league style sailing event on Sydney Harbour…
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