Matt Donald & Chris Townsend’s Gweilo has held off six rival TP52s and a plethora of strong challengers to claim IRC victory in yesterday’s Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore (Audi Centre Sydney BWPS) Bird Island Race.
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is pleased to announce an exciting new event scheduled for November 2020. In partnership with Bolle eyewear, the Club will host a new open match racing regatta, the ‘Bolle Australian Cup’. The regatta will be contested over four race days from 24 to 27 November with up to 20 teams invited to participate.
Sydney returned to deep winter for the MC38 class’ penultimate act of their 2020 season, temperatures in the low to mid-teens with rain and southerly gusts up to 30 knots on Sydney Harbour blowing up Ginger’s kite and sending hundreds of litres of saltwater cascading over the decks of the eye-catching 38 footers.
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s longstanding Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) will go ahead over the weekend of November 28-29, another positive bounce back from the New South Wales major sailing event doldrums.
The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron hosted the Captain Rountree Cup on Saturday 3 October. Run as a pursuit-style race around Sydney Harbour, the event attracted 15 entries and more than 80 competitors and provided an opportunity for female sailors to race, either with an all-female crew or female helm and mixed crew.
It is with great disappointment that the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron announce the postponement of the Moonen Yachts Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race, until January 2022.
Community sport has never known a time like the past five months. No one could have imagined or foreseen the challenges and strains that 2020 has put on all sectors of the sport whether at club or elite levels.
The 2020 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual 384-nautical-mile challenge due to commence on Saturday 3 October, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please note, due to the current COVID-19 public health advice and the safety plan adopted by Double Bay Sailing Club, the format of the regatta will be different from previous years.
Earlier today the CYCA was advised an active Member of the Club and their partner had tested positive for COVID-19. As a result of this news, the CYCA has closed its Clubhouse until further notice.
Close to two years of shooting for a MC38 one design class top result finally yielded Steve Proud’s Swish team the main prize, on dreary Pittwater in the shortened five-race Act 4 winter pointscore.
What a fabulous way to get back to sailing and racing after the lay-off, on arguably one of the best venues in Australia! The event is well-run, and the club is proud of its great courses and stellar race management.