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DSS Wins 2022 AWKR
Champions!!! In the last race of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta, skipper Jo Breen and her Spartan 34.7 crew needed to finish 3 places ahead of overnight leader 2Extreme to secure the regatta win. The team nailed it! These great sailors have had a wonderful regatta, recovering from a broken main halyard at the end […]
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DSS to host 2025 Aus. Yachting Champs
The Australian Yachting Championship is heading back to Tasmania in 2025 and the Squadron is very proud, and excited, to have been selected to host this event on behalf of Australian Sailing. The Australian Yachting Championships “will be run either in conjunction with or alongside existing keystone events” helping to unpin the assembly of awesome […]
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COMBINED CLUBS PRIZE PRESENTATION
Friday 6 May 2022 The 2021-22 Combined Clubs sailing season was celebrated in style as skippers and crews gathered for the annual Combined Clubs prize presentations and dinner, hosted by the Derwent Sailing Squadron Inc. The flag officers came together from the Combined Clubs Committee to share in the presentations of the following series:• Harbour […]
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Oskana – S2H
The 2021 Sydney to Hobart will be Mike Pritchard’s valedictory race as owner and skipper of the mighty Cookson 50, Oskana. Racing on the boat this year, alongside Mike, will be new owner Paul McCartney. After a major refit over the COVID months of 2020 and 2021, Mike and his loyal crew have not left […]
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Sidewinder – S2H
Squadron members and great mates John Saul and Rob Gough have clocked up over 5,000 Nm sailing two up together over the last few years. While many of these miles were done delivering Rob’s previous boat, the beautiful Hallberg Rassy 46 ‘Grace’, around the South Pacific, of more recent times the pair have stepped it […]
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Are you a bit InnQUIZitive???
The club will be hosting the InnQUIZitive Trivia Quiz Event on the 1st Tuesday of every month. The bar will be open from 4om with bar meals available from 5pm with the quiz to start at 7.30pm – FREE ENTRY with lots of prizes each week. Tables can be 2 people up to 10 people […]
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The 53rd Ronald Young & Co Builders Pipe Opener, a firm favourite not to be missed!
Derwent Sailing Squadron and Kettering Yacht Club’s opening event of the yachting season, the Ronald Young & Co Builders Pipe Opener Series, is celebrating its 53rd year on Friday the 17 September 2021. A firm favourite and most eagerly anticipated sailing weekend, this year’s event has been kicked off with record breaking entries. Growing in […]
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THE FIRST RACE OF THE 2021 COMBINED CLUBS WINTER SERIES IS WARMING UP TO BE BUMPER EVENT
It’s that time of the year when the winter woollies come out in Hobart, the Catabatic wind pushes downward with cool air and the Bridgewater Jerry fog creeps down from the Derwent Valley. Where else would our Tassie sailors rather be when there is a race to be won on an early Sunday winter morning […]
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Combined Clubs Race Four Preview
Tomorrow’s Combined Clubs Summer Pennant Race will be the last local long-distance race for skippers and crews to test their teamwork and tactics before competing in this year’s Christmas offshore events, the TasPorts Launceston to Hobart (L2H) and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht races. Nearly half of this year’s 35-boat fleet for the L2H Race […]
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A Mixed Bag for Hobart Sailors
The River Derwent served up the proverbial box of chocolates to the fleet in the first race of the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant Series. The fleet got away in a 12-knot westerly breeze but the patchy airs and strong current from recent heavy rains, kept the fleet on its toes. After a short postponement, the […]
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