YACHTING NEWS That’s a Wrap on the 2025 Cat Weekend! Thank you to our Race Officer Jeff and sponsor ‘Club Marine’. Our volunteers out-did themselves, a great weekend of racing. Paper Tiger Division 3rd Damien Widdy Finger Jam 2nd Kelvin Holdt Gotanuddawoody 1st Phil Kellond-Knight Rumpleteaser Division 2 3rd Daniel Thompson & Bentley O’Sullivan Hot…
YACHTING NEWS QCYC SURF TO CITY 2025 The 32nd Surf to City Yacht Race was raced once again last weekend, organised by our friends at the Queensland Cruising Yacht Club. 2 strong fleets raced from the GC Seaway to Brisbane, with 26 monohulls and 13 multihulls racing inshore, whilst 29 monohulls and 5 multihulls will…
YACHTING NEWS TED ELKES MEMORIAL REGATTA 2024/25 Well done to all skippers and crew who competed in our Ted Elkes Memorial Regatta over the Australia Day weekend! Saturday’s grey skies and choppy sea state gave contrast to Sunday’s blue skies and much calmer conditions, with a passage on Day 2 sending both divisions…
YACHTING NEWS JULIAN ROCKS YACHT RACE Congratulations to all skippers and crew who braved the very wet conditions offshore and raced 84nm from the GC Seaway to Cape Byron and back in our Julian Rocks Yacht Race on Saturday! Incredibly, Line Honours was one of the tightest finishes we’ve seen with just 2…
YACHTING NEWS JULIAN ROCKS YACHT RACE Congratulations to all skippers and crew who braved the very wet conditions offshore and raced 84nm from the GC Seaway to Cape Byron and back in our Julian Rocks Yacht Race on Saturday! Incredibly, Line Honours was one of the tightest finishes we’ve seen with just 2…
YACHTING NEWS HOLLYWELL SAILING OFFICE The Sailing Office has now reopened for 2025! AUSTRALIAN PAPER TIGER CHAMPIONSHIPS (Adelaide) SYC Members Damien Widdy and Kelvin Holdt have just completed the Australian Paper Tiger Championships at Somerton Yacht Club in Adelaide. They enjoyed a good mix of conditions with a day of light air, a…
YACHTING NEWS SUMMER ON THE LAKE Date: Saturday 18th January 2025 Location: Oxenford Watersports Centre – Oxenford Lake (on-shore and on-water) Event Time: 9am to 6pm Enter and find out more on the event page here. HOLLYWELL SAILING OFFICE IS CLOSED FROM 23rd DECEMBER to 8th JANUARY 2025. UPCOMING SYC SPECIAL…
YACHTING NEWS The Moreton Group Optimist Queensland State Championship took place over the weekend of December 7th and 8th, delivering two days of exciting racing at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, with 13 Cadet Sailors representing Southport Yacht Club The event offered a valuable opportunity for the sailors to familiarise themselves with the conditions before…
YACHTING NEWS NEW JUNIOR COMMODORES Congratulations to our new Junior Commodore Teegan Mitchell, and Junior Vice Commodore Stirling Kelly! COOK ISLAND YACHT RACE Sunday treated an 18 strong offshore fleet to some fast conditions for the annual 35 nautical mile return yacht race to Cook Island. The Navigators prize was in tight contention, grasped by…
YACHTING NEWS JOHN MCNAMARA MEMORIAL RACE Saturday saw the running of the 2024 John McNamara Memorial Yacht Race with 9 entries, fabulous conditions saw the fastest elapsed time being just under 4 hours, competitors raced from South of Pelican Banks in Moreton Bay towards Peel Island, Banana Banks and finish south of Pelican Banks to…