Northern Beaches Cluster update
Australian Sailing is closely monitoring the most recent COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
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InfoTrack beats Black Jack again in Near-Perfect Performance
InfoTrack owner Christian Beck and his crew continue to firm as the ones to beat for line honours in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after they produced a near-perfect performance to win the 2020 Grinders Coffee SOLAS Big Boat Challenge on Tuesday.
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Exciting Cabbage Tree Island Race start gives a taste of things to come
If the events of 2020 dampened any memories of grand-prix yacht racing on Sydney Harbour, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Cabbage Tree Island Race start has brought them flying back in truly spectacular style.
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Lazy Dog looms over Act 6 and MC38 season pointscore
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Lazy Dog team closed out the 2020 MC38 calendar with a third series triumph, giving Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s crew the overall season trophy from six acts.
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Extreme Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship tests crews
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) coincided with Sydney’s record-breaking hot weather weekend, 28 crews enduring 40 knot gusts for race two and brutal temperatures in the low 40s both days of the longstanding annual series.
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Harken Open Championship 2020 - Winners Crowned
The final day of racing saw a light to moderate NE breeze on beautiful Pittwater for the Grand Finale of the inaugural Harken Open Championships.
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Port Stephens Yacht Club Marine Outlet Womens' Series
In a first for the Club, there will be a Womens' series conducted concurrently with the Summer Pointscore.
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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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43rd Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship open for entry
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.
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Middle Harbour Yacht Club announces Super Group Spring Regatta
Middle Harbour Yacht Club has announced a new regatta to promote competition in Sydney for a range of sports yachts with asymmetric gennakers.
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New female series set for Sydney
The 2020-21 Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series will bring together female sailors from across Sydney – and we want your participation too!
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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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Moonen Yachts Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race - Postponed until January 2022
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.
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A message for the sailing community of New South Wales Â
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.
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New guidelines relating to COVID- 19 for community sport in New South Wales
The NSW Government has issued new guidelines relating to COVID- 19 for community sport.
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2020 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race cancelled
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.
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