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Australian Yachting Championships hosts announced

The Australian Yachting Championships are set to be run alongside some of Australia’s biggest keelboat regattas after Australian Sailing today locked in the host clubs of the event for the next four years.

Australian Yachting Championships 2020: Winners decided

Matt Allen has claimed a third successive Australian Yachting Championship title today in Hobart, with Ichi Ban claiming victory in four races and finishing third in Race 5, with Race 6 abandoned for Division A.

Final day to decide Yachting Championships

Today’s two windward/leeward races will decide the Australian Yachting Championships 2020 in Divisions B and C, while 2017 and2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart winner, Matt Allen and his Ichi Ban look set to replicate their wins of the past two years.

Australian Yachting Championships: Be careful what you wish for

After yesterday’s light airs, some yachties were heard saying “Geez we’d love some more breeze”, and as the old saying goes, ‘be careful what you ask for’, as Day 2 was a completely different beast, with sudden high winds testing competitors and boats at the Australian Yachting Championships 2020.

Entries building for Australian Yachting Championships 2020

Entries for the Australian Yachting Championships, to be hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania from 3-5 January 2020, continue to build, with last year’s three division winners on the ready to take on old foes and a host of the uninitiated.

The diamonds and the dusty at Airlie Beach Race Week

Day 4 at 2019 Airlie Beach Race Week and the 31st running of Whitsunday Sailing Club’s largest sailing event, which reels in the big tourism dollars to the region, hit a new high note today, with winds reaching in excess of 20 knots and gusting 24 at times.

The countdown is on

Preparations for the Australian Yachting Championships to be hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania on the River Derwent, Storm Bay and d’Entrecasteaux Channel from 3 - 5 January 2020 are well underway. Late entry fee applies from Weds 18th Dec.

Newcomers looking to dominate Australian Yachting Championships 2020

Some of the country’s highest profile yachts and crews are to take part in what will be one of the most competitive Australian Yachting Championships on record, when the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania hosts racing on the River Derwent, Storm Bay and d’Entrecasteaux Channel from 3-5 January.

2019 Australian Yachting Championship winners declared

Three champions successfully defended their divisional titles and one new 2019 Saint Moritz by GURNERâ„¢ Australian Yachting Championship winner was declared after Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron rolled out a full series over three days.

Pretty Port Phillip shines for passage race

Boats contesting the 2019 Saint Moritz by GURNERâ„¢ Australian Yachting Championship shifted gears on day two with the short and sharp mode for the opening windward/leeward races replaced by stamina and picking shifts during the Port Phillip passage race.

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