Visitors to Geelong’s waterfront are in for a triple treat over the Australia Day long weekend, with a stellar line-up of artists set to entertain crowds at the 2019 Festival of Sails.
The sporty VX One class is set to add international sparkle to the Festival of Sails in 2019 when a team from the USA, where the class originated, joins a national fleet for the Australian Championship on Geelong’s Corio Bay, January 26-28.
The Festival of Sails 2019 has its first entry in Hugh Ellis’ Reichel/Pugh 63 called Voodoo, which last campaigned the popular Geelong regatta in 2009 as Limit and now sails for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria.
We seek a Club Keelboat Sailing Coordinator to manage club keelboat sailing activities including the club’s summer, twilight and winter series and major regattas such as the Festival of Sails (annual event), Wooden Boat Festival (biennial event) and other state, national, and world championship events and possibly work as an instructor in our Learn to Sail Programs
Finding full crew for the growing major racing events market has become challenging Australia-wide, but the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) in Melbourne, Victoria has come up with an innovative solution to keep competitors romping on the offshore racetrack.
The 2019 Australian Yachting Championship will now to be held at the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) on January 22 to 24 as a lead in event to the Festival of Sails.
Albert Sailing Club's annual winter regatta for monohull dinghy classes was sailed on Melbourne's Albert Park Lake over the 23th and 24th June weekend.
The Fireball World Championships are coming back to Victoria, Australia for the first time since January 1998. They have been scheduled for February 2022 at Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC). RGYC are also running the 2018/19 Australian Fireball Championships in February 2019 as a warm up for the event.