Weekly Sailing Summary

OLYMPIC CLASSES

The Australian Sailing Team's Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen won the 49er class at the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Holland. In their first regatta together Outteridge and Jensen showed the fleet that their long hours of training in Australia had paid off by claiming six top three finishes in the regatta's 12 races. Click here for more.

KEEL BOATS

Race five of the Audi Winter Series 2009 commenced in 10-15 knots of easterly breeze with a full course being sailed on course B. The rain clouds held off for most of the afternoon, providing a light shower or two and the breeze was the most consistent yet of the Audi Winter Series. A fleet of 137 yachts took to the start line for a very enjoyable winter's day sailing. Click here for more.

Kevin Fogarty's Idle Time is on the pace to contest the Performance Handicap class trophy during the 2009 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week series over the Whitsunday Sailing Club's courses in August. Click here for more.

- INTERNATIONAL

Quantum Sails is accepting entries to win an all-expenses-paid trip to be part of the crew on board TP52 Quantum Racing for the Audi MedCup event in Portimao, Portugal. The regatta will take place on August 18-23, 2009. Click here for more.

An estimated 45,000 people experienced the sights and sounds of Langenargen when the town played host to the second stage of the World Match Racing Tour. Match Race Germany ended with Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Team Origin winning the event in a first to three points final against Damien Iehl (FRA) and his French Match Racing Team. Click here for more.

The Australian Mirsky Racing Team placed tenth at Match Race Germany. They had to win three from three races to stay in the competition. Click here for more.

Sailing cow images - Groupe Bel skipper Kito de Pavant and his new crew François Gabard will race together in the next two handed Transat Jacques Vabre. Gilles Martin Raget’s images at Click here for images.

AROUND THE WORLD

Volvo Ocean Race - Puma won the in-port race series in Galway, Ireland, after two races were held on Galway Bay. This is the first time that PUMA has been on top of the podium for the Volvo Ocean Race and it brings her closer to second place in the overall standings. Leg eight from Galway to Marstrand, Sweden, starts 6 June. Click here for more.

New rules for the 2011 Volvo Ocean Race will allow 'female' teams to carry twelve sailors, including the media crew, two of whom may be men. The maximum weight for the keel fin and bulb will be set at 7,400 kilograms in the future. There will also be a minimum keel fin weight to be defined at a later date. The fin will be required to be solid, with no fairings permitted. Click here for more.

More than 300 adventurers travelled from all over the world to Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard on Saturday 30 May to discover which of the ten teams they will participate in for the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race. Click here for more.

OFF THE BEACH

Teenage Noosa schoolgirl Morgann Stanton is combining a busy study and sail training schedule in preparation to represent Australia at the 2009 SB3 World Championship in Cascais, Portugal, later this year. Click here for more.

Over 280 of the world's top young sailors will travel to Buzios, Brazil this July for the 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship. Click here for more.

CRUISING

Treleavens' Travels - From West End on Roatan, Honduras, to the outer atolls of Belize, Ian and Andrea Treleaven have a perfect 80 nautical mile daylight sail and manage to hook two dorado. As provisions have not been easy to find, they have become hunters not gatherers. Click here for more.

NEWS BRIEFS

Nestled in the south east corner at the estuary end of the Dawesville Cut in Mandurah is Port Bouvard Yacht Club, one of Western Australia's newest yacht clubs. Click here for more.

The ISAF Sailor Classification Code and Classification FAQs have been updated in relation to the Classification of owners who occasionally charter out their boats and then race on them. Click here for more.

MARINE INDUSTRY

The Boating Industry Association of Victoria (BIA) has updated the categories and criteria for this year's Victorian Marine Industry Awards. Click here for more.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

June 6 – 7 -- The Oceanic Whitsunday Boat & Leisure Show, Meridien Marinas Abel Point Marina, Airlie Beach. Click here for more.

June 12 – 14 -- Fire Water will present from 6pm to 8pm a dramatic interpretation of the fire that devastated the nineteenth century convict ship the Three Bees which sank in Sydney Cove 195 years ago. Click here for more.

June 17 - Weather Wise Seminar at Frankston Surf Life Saving Club - RSVP by Friday 12 June. Click here for more info.

July 2 - 6 -- Melbourne Boat Show, Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Click here for more.

July 16 - 19 -- Adelaide Boat Show, Adelaide Convention Centre. Click here for more info.

July 18 - Sail Indonesia Yacht Rally departs from Darwin. Click here for more.

July 25 - Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race. Click here for more.

July 30 - Aug 3 -- Sydney International Boat Show, Darling Harbour. Click here for more.

August 12 - 16 -- Perth International Boat Show, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. Click here for more.

Aug 13 – 20 -- Airlie Beach Race Week, Meridien Marinas Abel Point Marina Click here for more info.

Aug 21 – 29 -- Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. Click here for more.

August 28 - 31 -- Brisbane International Boat Show, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Click here for more info.

Photograph courtesy of the Australian Sailing Team: Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen