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SB3s: If at first you don’t succeed…

SB3s: If at first you don’t succeed…

Jono Shelley and his crew of Clare and Chris Molloy have won the SB3 William Angliss Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week after another strong performance in this morning’s final race. Two years ago the British team raced this event in the one-design SB3 keelboat class at Royal Geelong Yacht Club and had to be content [...]

McDougall aims for International Moth trifecta

McDougall aims for International Moth trifecta

Mach 2 Moth designer Andrew McDougall today added the McConaghy – KA Sails International Moth Victorian Championships to the Australian Moth title he won earlier this month. Next step will be the International Moth class world  championships at the start of March in Dubai, UAE, where the Victorian sailor hopes to make it a trifecta. Racing at [...]

Mach 2 Moths vying for the lead

Mach 2 Moths vying for the lead

Mach 2 Moth designer Andrew McDougall has climbed to the top of the leaderboard in the McConaghy – KA Sails International Moth Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week with three strong results today, but he is tied on points with fellow Mach 2 sailor Lochlin Byrne. The two Victorian sailors were best of the nine-boat fleet [...]

New design wins F18 nationals

New design wins F18 nationals

Steve Brewin and Jack Benson have won the Club Marine Formula 18 Australian Championship at Audi Victoria Week with a masterful display of tactical sailing in a brand new C2 design called BO. Brewin and Benson were always in the top three finishers in the 25-boat fleet while their rivals were less consistent in the tricky [...]

Commanding lead for multinational SB3 team

Commanding lead for multinational SB3 team

Jono Shelley and his crew of Clare and Chris Molloy hold a commanding lead after the third day of racing in the SB3 William Angliss Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week. Shelley’s Credo-Group.com was again the outstanding boat in the 15-strong one-design keelboat fleet, racing from Royal Geelong Yacht Club in a light to moderate south-easterly [...]

Sports Boats: Chaotic first day in Geelong

Sports Boats: Chaotic first day in Geelong

It was a baptism of fire for the 22-boat sports boat fleet in today’s opening race of the Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Championship at Audi Victoria Week. Strong winds and a missing mark on Geelong’s Corio Bay resulted in retirements, confusion and then an abandonment and restart. While the remainder of the sports boat series [...]

Just a Minor Hickup for Audi Victoria Week Passage Race provisional winner

Just a Minor Hickup for Audi Victoria Week Passage Race provisional winner

Peter Coleman’s Hick 39 Just a Minor Hickup from Royal Brighton Yacht Club provisionally took out the Audi Victoria Week Passage Race honours in IRC Division 2, sailing a near perfect race, although the boat did finish slightly heavier than its start weight. “The only hiccup was when the nuff nuffs forgot to close the front hatch [...]