Thirteen WA Youth Sailors are competing in Queensland from Saturday to Tuesday in the OAMPS Youth Australian Mid-Winter Championship.We have representatives in the Optimist, Laser 4.7, Laser Radial and 420 classes. Full coverage of results, daily blog and photographs can be found at www.qldyouthweek.com
This is a great intitiative by YA: Due to the overwhelming success of last year's winter lecture series this has been recalled for this winter. A number of key presenters have been lined up to address sailors of all ages on a range of relevant topics. Keep an eye of the website for all the latest information www.wa.yachting.org.au
We entered the final day of the Slovenia Match Cup 2-1 down to Ian Ainslie from South Africa and had a must win match to even the score. Unfortunately we didn’t sail to our best and this along with a dubious penalty against us meant we were knocked out of the semi finals.
Heres some shots and media release of the relaunch of BACCHANTE, a 30sqm scurry cruiser at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club on Sunday 28/06/2009.Sweet!
Bacchante” was one of two first ever 30 square metre yachts to be built in Australia over 1936 and 1937. The other being “Lewan” with the former being built in S ydney and the latter in Tasmania .
The team arrived yesterday for our first event in Europe for 2009. Following our successful 2008 tour we hope to continue our march up the rankings this year with more success. Our core team for this year is Keith Swinton (AUS), Ed Hill (GBR), Jakob Gutaffsson (SWE) and Nick Bastow (NZL) and we are also joined by Pete Nicholas (AUS) for this regatta as our 5th man.
Sailing around Australia is one of those things every sailor wants to do during their life. Australia is the largest island continent to sail around. Surprisingly, it's only a small band of yachtsmen and yachtswomen that have done it.
The last fleet race around Australia took place 21 years ago as part of the bicentennial celebrations. Why not a regular race or rally around Australia since?
Western Australian company Ocean Events is on a mission to do something about this. Welcome to the 2011 Around Australia Ocean Race and Rally.
Due to a current Gale Warning having been issued by the Bureau of Meteorology and the impending forecast of increasing winds the decision has been made by the Race Committee that the Ensign Race will be cancelled.
