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Gweilo claims IRC victory in Bird Island Race

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.
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Bolle Australia Match Cup

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.
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Lazy Dog wins and InfoTrack debuts

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.
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Captain Rountree Cup Success

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.
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CYCA COVID-19 Update

Following an active Member of the CYCA and their partner testing positive for COVID-19, the Club wishes to provide the following update.
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First MC38 regatta win for Swish

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.
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MC38s long-awaited return to 2020 season

Winter sailing on Sydney Harbour is often fraught, light winds and plenty of shifting potholes to catch the unsuspecting out. For the MC38s crews who returned to their season after months of COVID isolation, getting the fleet back together and completing the seven-race program was more than enough compensation for the tricky conditions.
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