Weekly Sailing Summary

KEEL BOATS

Barry, skippered by Damien King with crew James Ware, Simon Cunnington and Andrew Butler, won the Musto Etchells Australian Winter Championship off Mooloolaba. Mark Johnson and his Roulette crew of Nik Burfoot and Christian Allen were second. Click here for more.

Race six of the Audi Winter Series 2009 commenced in 8-10 knots of westerly breeze with the full Course A sailed. Larki Missiris' recently purchased Wild One finished first in the Sydney 38 One Design Division. Click here for more.

Col Forster steered Esoteric to a 19 second win in the first race of the Maurice Drent Boating Services trophy on the warm waters of Pioneer Bay, off Airlie Beach. More here.

Two new 'Gun Boat' trophies will be introduced at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week in August this year to recognise the yachts that dominate the race for line honours. Find out more here.

Geelong Week, Victoria's oldest sporting event and Australia's largest sailing regatta, prepares to expand horizons without Skandia. More here.

A new Category One ocean race has been added to the Australian bluewater calendar, with the inaugural Butlers Newcastle Round Lord Howe Island Yacht Race to start on Mother's Day 2010. See more here.

INTERNATIONAL

Australia's highest ranked women's match racing team, Wot Chicks, finished third overall at the grade 1 BoatU.S Santa Maria Cup sailed in Annapolis after being forced into a sudden death situation when the breeze failed to play ball on the final day. More here.

Paolo Cian's Team Shosholoza defeated Ian Williams' Bahrain Team Pindar in the final of the Korea Match Cup at Gyeonggi, Korea. Australians Peter Gilmour's Yanmar Racing team and Torvar Mirsky's Mirsky Racing Team placed sixth and seventh respectively. More details here.

USA's Bliksem, with Australian Nathan Wilmot calling tactics, won the Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series in Italy. More.

The Dubois Cup 2009, an exclusive rally of racing superyachts designed by Dubois Naval Architects, was held at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, from June 6-8. See more here.

The Royal Ocean Racing Club has secured the support of Skandia to undertake a feasibility study into the revival of the Admirals Cup as one of the premier offshore racing regattas on the world circuit. Find out more here.

AROUND THE WORLD

The Volvo Ocean Race fleet left Galway Bay on 6 June for the 1250 nautical mile sprint leg to Marstrand in Sweden, venturing out into the teeth of a gale. Ericsson 4 was caught in a huge gust and broke their leeward steering wheel and its cage. Telefónica Black leads the fleet in the Dover Strait - see here.

OLYMPIC CLASSES

Perth 2011 unveiled its new Master Brand for the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships at the Perth Convention Exhibition in front of an audience of Australian media and key Western Australian sporting and political identities. More here.

The first batch of the new Elliott six metre keelboats selected as equipment for the Women's Match Racing event at the 2012 Olympic Games are on their way to Germany to make their worldwide debut at the sixth event of the ISAF Sailing World Cup. More here.

Thirty nations, including Australia, are set to go head to head on Lake Traunsee, Austria, at the 2009 470 European Championships from June 8. More here.

OFF THE BEACH

Australian Matthew Wearn wins the Byte Championship at the Singapore National 420 & Byte Championship & Singapore Laser Trophy. More here.

The fifth edition of the Sentosa Optimist Sailing Open Championship starts 9 June, and will run till 13 June 2009, in Singapore at the National Sailing Centre. Find out moer here.

CRUISING

Treleavens' Travels – Ian and Andrea Treleaven's entrance over the shallow sandbar into the Rio Dulce in Guatemala is unexpectedly dramatic, and the captain's blood pressure rose. Twelve yachts assumed the spring high tide to be enough water to cross but three of them didn't make it. More here.

NEWS BRIEFS

Boatson.tv has been re-launched on its own platform, free at the point of use with five dedicated channels, Sail, Power, Volvo Ocean Race, Focus and World On Water® and is available on MAC and PC. Details here.

Online ticket sales for the BIA Melbourne Boat Show are available for the 2009 show, with discounted prices and a special two-day pass. Details.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

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. More here.

June 17 - Weather Wise Seminar at Frankston Surf Life Saving Club - RSVP by Friday 12 June. More here.

July 2 - 6 -- Melbourne Boat Show, Melbourne Exhibition Centre. More here.

July 16 - 19 -- Adelaide Boat Show, Adelaide Convention Centre. See here.

July 18 - Sail Indonesia Yacht Rally departs from Darwin. Entries closed June 5. More details.

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

July 30 - Aug 3 -- Sydney International Boat Show, Darling Harbour. Links here.

Aug 6 - 21 -- Festival Cairns - Telling Our Stories.

August 12 - 16 -- Perth International Boat Show, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. Details here.

Aug 13 - 20 -- Airlie Beach Race Week, Meridien Marinas Abel Point Marina. See here.

Aug 21 - 29 -- Audi Hamilton Island Race Week: links.

August 28 - 31 -- Brisbane International Boat Show, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. More details here.

Sep 11 - 13 -- The Great Tropical Jazz Party on Magnetic Island follows on from Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, with many crews lingering on to relax after a week of competitive sailing. More here.

Oct 8 - 11 – Mandurah Boat Show, Mandurah Ocean Marina. More here.

Oct 17 - 18 -- Darwin Boat & Leisure Show, Darwin Convention Centre. Details here.