Weekly Sailing Summary
Transfusion wins Farr 40 regatta, wet and no wind for Melbourne to Stanley race, rough conditions in Gosford to Lord Howe race.A fleet of 32 yachts started the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s Melbourne to Stanley Race. Gusto, the line honours winner, arrived into Stanley on the top of Tasmania with virtually no breeze, but plenty of rain. 22 vessels and their crews decided that no wind and a lot of rain were more than enough reason to turn back. www.orcv.org.au
Heavy seas and strong winds in the northern Tasman Sea forced six of the 17 yachts to retire from the 414 nautical mile Hempel Paints 37th Gosford to Lord Howe Island Race. The rough sea conditions abated on Monday. www.gosfordsailingclub.com.au
France’s Claire Leroy and her team of Elodie Bertrand, Marie Riou, Claire Pruvot and Morgane Gautier defeated Australian Katie Spithill and her team of Angela Farrell, Nina Curtis, Maryanne Thomas, and Amanda Scrivenor 3-1 in the finals to win the 2010 Busan Cup International Women’s Match Race. www.wimra.org
The Australian Sailing Team has a new world number one with Australian Women’s Match Racing Team skipper Nicky Souter jumping to the top of the latest Women’s Match Racing world ranking list. www.yachting.org.au
The popular biennial MyState Financial Australian Wooden Boat Festival returns to Hobart's waterfront on 11-14 February 2011. The Enterprize, James Craig, Lady Nelson, Windeward Bound, One and All and Young Endeavour will be some of the 620 wooden boats at the world-class festival, which will be free to the public. The 2011 highlights will include an appearance by small-boat designer Iain Oughtred, and a replica five-hundred-year-old Hachoro fishing boat from Hobart's sister city Yaizu in Japan. www.australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au
Nov 7 -- Go Sailing Day helps people go sailing from various clubs throughout Victoria. Register your interest at www.gosailing.com.au
Nov 12 -- Book Launch - Bligh: Master Mariner - with Rob Mundle at the National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney. www.anmm.gov.au
Nov 13-14 -- The Copper Cove Marina Festival in South Australia will combine the best products and produce from local boating, seafood and wine suppliers. www.coppercove.com.au/marina_festival
Nov 20-21 -- 2010 Lipton Cup Regatta, held on Port Phillip. www.liptoncupregatta.yachting.org.au
Dec 6-9 -- Sydney International Regatta - Olympic Class regatta on Sydney Harbour www.nsw.yachting.org.au/
Dec 12-18 -- Asia Pacific Regatta, part of the ISAF Sailing World Cup, is a grade one Olympic Class regatta. www.sailmelbourne.com.au/
Dec 14 -- CYCA's SOLAS Big Boat Challenge - the biggest yachts in Australia race on Sydney Harbour in a countdown to the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. eBay auctions a number of places aboard competing boats with the proceeds raised going to the SOLAS Trusts. The opportunity to fire the 19th century replica cannon to start the race will also be auctioned on eBay at the end of November. www.cyca.com.au
Dec 26 -- Rolex Sydney Hobart starts on Sydney Harbour at 1.00pm on Boxing Day. Charter boats of all shapes and sizes and a variety of costs are available to watch the start of this iconic event. http://rolexsydneyhobart.com
Dec 31 -- New Year’s Eve - Spectacular fireworks are fired off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, barges, and city skyscrapers at 9.00 pm and midnight. Charter vessels participate in a themed parade following the 9.00 pm fireworks. A special area is set aside for charter vessels in the Harbour. www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nye/
Photograph: Transfusion, winners of the Pittwater Farr 40 regatta courtesy of Sam Crichton
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