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Close racing in DSS Winter Series
Only one point separates the two top-placed yachts in Divisions 1 and 3 of the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Winter Series. Sunday saw day three of the DSS series, sailed in a steady northerly breeze on a bleak and showery morning on the Derwent. The forecast saw all three divisions depleted by non-starters. A third place […]
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New program for Combined Clubs racing 2017-2018
Major changes have been made to Hobart’s Combined Clubs racing programme for the 2017-2018 summer yachting season on the River Derwent, aimed at boosting fleet numbers. Instead of separate Combined Clubs Harbour and Long Race Series, nine Pennant races will be scheduled over the summer, approximately every second Saturday, comprising five long day races and […]
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Women skippers show their skills in SB20s
Hobart women sailors today continued to demonstrate their skills in the SB20 one-design sports boat class, gaining top placings on the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s second day of its winter racing on the Derwent. Champion sailor Rob Gough, steering Difficult Woman, had a fight on his hands to two win the first race (race four […]
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Bugg’s silver medal at Para Worlds
Two Tasmanian sailors, Matt Bugg and Chris Symonds, have won silver medals at the Para World Sailing Championships at Kiel, Germany Bugg, from Hobart finished on equal first points with German Heiko Kroger but was placed second a countback in the singlehanded 2.4 Norlan one-design keelboat. Third overall was Frenchman Sequin, the gold medallist at […]
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SB20 champion to sail for UK at Worlds
SB20 sports boat mid-winter champion Paul Burnell will contest this year’s one-design sports boat class world championship at Cowes, England, steering an English boat rather than an Australian entrant. Burnell, with his sons Toby and Ollie and young Optimist sailor Bailey Fisher in the crew, today won the mid-winters on a chilly River Derwent by […]
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Close racing in Hobart’s SB20 mid-winters
The depth of talent in Hobart’s SB20 sports boat fleet has been underlined on day one of the class mid-winter championships on the Derwent today The first three races of the weekend event for the 15-boat fleet produced three different winners and seven difficult placegetters. The racing was in the near perfect sailing conditions, a […]
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Derwent workout for SB20 Worlds contenders
Hobart yacht watchers will see some talent in action this weekend, with five of the seven Tasmanian helmsmen entered for this year’s SB20 sports boat World championship taking part in the SB20 Mid-Winter championship on the Derwent. The Mid-Winters are being conducted by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and the Derwent Sailing Squadron with […]
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Hobart women set for AWKR win
With four wins out of five races so far sailed, the Tasmanian crew led by Colleen Darcey, look set to win the IRC division of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta. Sailing Absolut, an Archambault 35, the Tasmanians crew of mainly SB20 sports boat sailors today were in top form, winning both the IRC and AMS […]
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Jo Breen already a ‘Cape Horner’
At the age of 28, Tasmanian woman Jo Breen has already sailed 30,000 nautical miles in oceans around the world, including rounding Cape Horn. In May next year she will skipper her own small yacht Morning Star in the 5,500 nautical mile two-handed race from Melbourne to Osaka, Japan, with a Russian woman as […]
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Clean sweep for Rob Gough in SB20s
World sailing champion sailor Rob Gough yesterday made a clean sweep of the SB20 sports boat division of the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s opening day of its club Winter Series. Gough steered Difficult Woman to three straight, albeit narrow, wins off scratch and was also the topscoring boat of the day on corrected times. It was […]
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