Organised By Queensland 29er Association
Hosted By Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron Ltd
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The F11s march back in to Qld is on, and we’ve decided to celebrate our conquest by shouting the first eight Flying 11 entries to the OAMPS Australian Midwinter Youth Championships (by way of reimbursement) from NSW or Tasmania, as well as covering two crews from Queensland in the event – enter here or go to http://www.qldyouthweek.com/ Read more…
By Ian Grant.
Sunshine Coast Ocean racing helmsman Mike O’Brien had a reasonable excuse to have missed relaxing at home in the brilliant autumn weather over the ANZAC weekend.
Mike O’Brien also temporarily placed his preparations for the 2010 Musto Etchells Australasian Winter championships on hold to accept the principal helming role on Bill Wild’s Wedgetail for the Yachting Queensland State IRC championship on Brisbane’s Moreton Bay.
It was an invitation he could not resist after playing a pivotal crew role with the exceptionally talented and determined Wedgetail crew when the sloop powered to a deserved overall win in the Brisbane to Gladstone Race over the Easter weekend.
Wedgetail has accumulated and impressive log book of results in the major Australian offshore races including her 2010 Brisbane to Gladstone race win over the Peter Harburg owned and Mark Bradford skippered Black Jack but has been sparingly raced in shorter course events. Read more…
First up a quick congrats to NSW Sailor Annelise Gilbert for her efforts at winning the recent QLD Youth Champs, well done Annelise.
QLD Youth Week: July 2010:
Now on to future events. The QLD Youth Week is taking place at the RQYS in Brisbane during July. I have had lots of interest from Techno sailors looking to take part in this event and would encourage sailors to schedule it into the calendars for July. Read more…
Sailing was held over the three days, 20 – 22 April in 4 disciplines completing 6 races each in the Regatta series:
Level 1 SO Athlete responsible for headsail trim with a unified partner
Level 2 SO Athlete responsible for helming 100% with a unified partner
Level 4 SO Athletes sailing in partnership
Level 5 SO Athlete sailing single handed
• Two divisions
o Male
o Female
Tuesday 20th April – Races 1 and 2 Lacklustre winds less than 5 knots on the first day of racing and racing postponed to 11:30 when the wind picked up slightly. A strong northerly current also played havoc with the East Coast sailors. Sailors from the ACT, SA, NSW and Qld completing in Levels 1 and 4 managed to get in two slow races in the morning. Victoria joined the others in the afternoon with slightly stronger 6 – 8 knot winds in Levels 2 and 5.
In Level 1, NSW’s Bradley Alderton with Dad as his unified partner shared equal 3 points with fellow NSW sailors Melissa Nelson and unified partner Bruce Schofield.
The ACT’s Stephen Ponder with Michael Leydon as unified partner in Level 2 showed a consistent
second in both races with their fellow team members, Catharine Keir and unified partner Gerda Lambeck also totalling 4 points with a creditable 3rd and a win.
Level 4 showed the ACT’s pair of Athletes, Bronwyn Ibbotson and Allister Peek clear ahead on 3 points from the Qld pair of Belinda Hill and Sonja Gilmore on 6 points.
In the single handed Level (level 5) Allister Peek from the ACT on 4 points, showed a clean stern to his fellow competitors, with Victoria’s Martin Waller close on 5 points and Mark Thorpe on 6 points. Read more…
Bill Wild’s Hugh Welbourne designed and Kevin Costin built Wedgetail scored another impressive win in the Yachting Queensland State IRC championship on Moreton Bay over the weekend.
The month of April has proved to be hugely successful for owner Bill Wild and his Wedgetail crew.
They clearly showed they could ‘drag race’ with the best to score a popular overall win in the Brisbane to Gladstone blue water coastal classic over the Easter weekend and have followed this up with relatively comfortable 8 point win over the new Reichel Pugh 42 Black Jack Too and the Farr 40 Bribie Star in the six race Queensland championship.
Normally Bill Wild has accepted Wedgetail to be more suited to the longer offshore events including the Rolex Sydney Hobart and the Audi Sydney to Gold Coast races however both he and his talented crew have shown they were equally impressive over the short course format. Read more…
Sunshine Coast World Masters Games sailing champion Mark Kennedy has developed a unique family and sporting bond with his teenage children Mitchell (17) and Madison (15).
The Buddina sailing family all won major individual championships during the past summer to lay claim to be Queensland’s most successful in the sport of strict one-design dinghy sailing.
However while father Mark is proud of his children’s results he remains adamant that his Matthew Flinders College students Mitchell (year 12) and Madison (year 10) achieve high marks later this year.
“It’s become very much a balancing act with sailing hardly mentioned before the assignments and homework is done”.
“Besides we have plenty of time for sailing talk when travelling between home and Brisbane where we race in Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron events on Waterloo Bay every weekend”. He said. Read more…
By Ian Grant.
Australian crews will face up to another test of Trans-Tasman rivalry when the battle lines are drawn for the 2010 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week Grand Prix IRC trophy later this year.
Champion Cruising Yacht Club of Australia skipper Ray Roberts and his highly talented crew who proved they are on the pace with outstanding results on the South East Asia circuit will contest the series with the high performance New Zealand designed and built Cookson 50 Evolution Racing.
The 2008 champion who lost the 2009 series under the count-back rule to the Victorian Michael Hiatt’s Farr 55 Living Doll has already lodged his entry documents with regatta Director Denis Thompson. Read more…
After one week in Hyeres, we are now ready for the start of our next competition, the fourth round of the ISAF World Sailing Cup. Over 110 boats in the 470 Men class have registered, one of the largest fleet sizes we have experienced in recent years.
The 470 is always continually building in popularity by strength in numbers, by nations competing and by the quality of the fleet. Due to the large number of boats the fleets will be split into two groups possibly three. Read more…
