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Tasmanian sailors line up for Kiel Woche 2018
Olympic aspirants, Tasmanian high-performance female sailors, Jasmin Galbraith and Chloe Fisher, begin their European campaign in the 49erFX skiff Olympic class in Germany this week. Joining them at the huge Keiler Woche (Kiel Week) regatta is another young Tasmanian with Olympic aspirations, Jock Calvert, this week ranked as 29th in the world in the single-handed […]
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Few hardy sailors out for Winter Series start
Only six of the 25 boats entered for the Derwent Sailing Squadron/Battery World Winter Series braved today’s miserable winter weather for the opening race. Who could blame those crews who stayed at home, in warmth, rather than heading out onto the Derwent on such a bleak, cold and wet morning. But heaps of praise for […]
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Top class fleet entered for DSS Winter Series
An excellent fleet, in quantity and quality has been entered for the opening race of the Derwent Sailing Squadron/Battery World Winter Series, which starts on Sunday. In change from recent winter series, races will start and finish off Castray Esplanade, with ‘Biddy’ Badenach again the race officer. The first division of the 23-boat fleet starts […]
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Last race wins clinch Autumn Short-Handed Series
Last race wins on Sunday clinched overall victories in four of the six divisions of the Derwent Sailing Squadron/Quantum Sails Autumn Short-Handed Series on the Derwent With the five races sailed in mostly light, at times very light, breezes, the light displacement boats did well in overall results. Winning the last race hinged on finding […]
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Mother’s Day Short-Handed win for Felicity Allison
Hobart sailor Felicity Allison celebrated Mother’s Day today with a win in the SB20 sports boat division of the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Autumn Short-Handed Series, with her husband Will has crew, helming the rather appropriately named boat, Cook Your Own Dinner. “I think Will will be cooking dinner tonight,” quipped the mother to two […]
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Dynamic Dynamo couple sailing short-handed
Husband and wife team Steve and Trina Davidson on Sunday sailed their I550 sports boat Dynamo to a second successive win on in the Derwent Sailing Squadron/Quantum Sails Short-Handed Series. Revelling in the light and rather flukey breeze, the Davidson’s took out a line and handicap double in Division 5 (non-spinnaker). On handicap they […]
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Short-Handed Sailing in Autumn Airs
Come autumn and many keen Hobart yacht owners find they don’t have the problem of rounding up a full crews to help them race on the Derwent. It’s now all about two-handed racing with just two sailors on board (in some divisions three) as against summer racing crews of between three and ten crew, depending […]
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Melbourne to Osaka Race re-starts
Yachts competing in the Melbourne to Osaka ocean race that were forced to shelter in Queensland ports from Cyclone Ibis early this week re-started their 5,500 nautical mile voyage to Japan on Friday. They headed out to sea from Southport, Brisbane, Bundaberg and Gladstone for a designated re-start from their suspended racing latitude, irrespective of […]
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Osaka Race yachts dash for shelter from Cyclone Iris
Almost half the fleet in the 5,500 nautical mile yacht race from Melbourne to Osaka in Japan have sought shelter in ports along the south Queensland coast as reformed Cyclone Iris moves south. Iris has become a Category 3, potentially category 4, cyclone with fierce winds and high seas off the Queensland coast between Bowen […]
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Zephyr wins at Barnes Bay in more than a zephyr
Zephyr means a ‘light, gentle breeze’ but it was quite the opposite when the yacht named Zephyr won the Barnes Day Regatta on Friday. In fact, it was howling out of the north-west at 25-38 knots in the afternoon, with Division 2 yachts not racing because of the near galeforce winds and several Division 1 […]
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