Upcoming events
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South Australian Wooden Boat Festival
Goolwa will continue to host the most impressive freshwater wooden boat festival in Australia, recognised as South Australia’s Best Festival at the 2019 South Australian Tourism Awards.Get on board for a fun-filled weekend - 17th South Australian Wooden Boat Festival - April 2023. More information HERE
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival
Held across Hobart’s vibrant and bustling waterfront, the four-day festival brings together the largest and most beautiful collection of wooden boats in the southern hemisphere. From its humble beginnings in 1994, it has grown to become the most significant event of its kind in Australia.
Australian Couta Boat National Championship
The Couta Assn will once again stage its Nationals in NSW with a large number Coutas coming up from Sorrento to Pittwater. The Saturday format for the Coutas are 3 windward / leewards. The Sunday format will be a long Passage race, the 2 Islands plus fixed marks. For More information watch the Couta Boat Association Website
150TH Sydney Amateur Sailing Club GAFFERS DAY
In 2022 the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club will celebrate our 150th Anniversary and we are planning to include Gaffers Day on Sunday 16th October 2022 as part of our sesquicentenary celebrations.
Great Veteran Yacht Race (Sydney Harbour)
The Notice of Race ( NOR ) for the GVYR in May will be available in the soon on the CYCA website. The GVYR is a no extras race and we look forward to welcoming all eligible yachts to join us even if they are not regular competitors. This year there will also be an opportunity for yachts built more recently between 1976 to 1991 to be called the IOR Era Division. Entries on the SailSys system will be online and will require each yacht to advise Cat 7 Safety, Insurance, crew and compliance details.
Royal Brighton Yacht Club One Design Regatta
Royal Brighton have scheduled a first time one design regatta for Easter 2022. The Melbourne Tumlaren fleet have been invited to compete on a one design basis.The fleet that that started Port Phillip’s one design racing in 1937 will sail alongside Dragons and other classes that race as one design fleets on Port Phillip.
Geelong Wooden Boat Festival
The festival will again attract the highest caliber of boats from all around Victoria and interstate to compete in this our 9th festival. They will be competing in our extensive program which will comprise both on water and shore based activities, including a Grand Parade of Boats and Cavalcade of Sail, a Concourse d’ Elegance, racing for the Corio Bay Couta Boat Cup, the Corio Bay Classic Wooden Yacht Cup and the Passage Races from Portarlington to Geelong. More infomation here
RMYC Classic Yacht Regatta
Two Days of Classic Racing on Pittwater. Saturday 5th March & Sunday 6th March 2022 Divisions: Classic Spinnaker, Classic Non-Spinnaker, Couta/Ranger & 5.5 metre. Berthing Available at RMYC. Book early to avoid missing out
The Cup Regatta 2021
The 15th consecutive running of the event which has become Australia’s biggest multi-day event for racing classic boats has been rescheduled to meet covid requirements. It will now be sailed over three days on the 19th 20th and 21st February 2022 from RYCV. For More Information visit. www.classic-yacht.asn.au
Witness an eclectic fleet of up to 40 craft ranging from Couta Boats to centenarian Gaff Cutters, and everything in between.
Inverloch Classic Wooden Dinghy Regatta 2022
Dust off your Aussie, British or wherever designed wooden dinghy and join us to celebrate sailing history over a cracking weekend and relive why many of us got into sailing in the first place!
CYANZ Classic Yacht Regatta
This event is one corner stone of our CYAA/CYANZ relationship. If Covid-19 restrictions at the time allow an AUS/NZ travel bubble then consider the NZ Classic Regatt as too good an opportunity to miss for some brilliant classic yacht regatta racing. Details on visitor logistics will be provided at a later date.
The Kettering Wooden Boat Rally
Whether you are custodian of a much loved family dinghy, have just finished building your first kayak, are restoring a traditional Tassie cray boat, or are mad for sailing among other timber boats, this is your weekend to head down to the beautiful D'Entrecasteaux Channel on, or with, your wooden boat.
Sydney Amateur Sailing Club Metre Boat Rally
See Sydney Amateur Sailing Club Website for more information
CYANZ Mahurangi Regatta
More than 100 racing vessels and an accompanying fleet of spectator craft, depart the Waitemata on a Friday afternoon. Managed by the Devonport Yacht Club, the boats race north up the east coast, arriving in the relatively well protected bay on dusk, at Mahurangi.
Having anchored that night the sailing fleet prepares for the Saturday Regatta Race held around Te Haupa Island and the small harbour. A large Launch Parade kicks off Saturday morning boating events with a running commentary from the beach as Launches motor past close to shore. The day concludes with a band and bbq in a marquee on the beach. More Information HERE
Wooden Boat Shop CBA Portsea Cup
See Sorrento Sailing And Couta Boat Club Website for more information
CYCA Sydney-Hobart Classic Yacht Regatta
A three-day Celebration of the Veteran’s of the Bluewater Classic on Sydney Harbour. Non Spinaker Race Friday pm Saturday Points Score Race, Dinner after racing on the Saturday, Sunday Points Score Race and prize giving after . Eligibility is pre 1975 ex S2H boats or by invitation. More information HERE
Wooden Boat Association of Queensland, Point Talburpin Sailing fun day
These are friendly get- togethers designed to encourage both local and visiting sailors to get out on the water in the company of other, like-minded souls, and enjoy the facility provided by high tide at Point Talburpin. Although activities are held at or near high tide, the relatively ‘thin’ waters in these parts necessarily restrict participation to dinghies (of all sorts and sizes), centre boarders, catamarans, and other shallow draft vessels.
Woody Point SummerSeries
Race One of the Summer version of this famous weekly series begins on 6th October on Pittwater. Founding Members of the Woody Point Yacht Club were a dedicated group of social drinkers with a boating problem.
Hamilton Island Race Week
If six Classic Boats enter, we have been promised our own Classic Yacht Division. Having taken part in a few Race Weeks, there’s very little that beats waking up after a night spent sitting on a balcony with a glass of wine, over looking the marina, debriefing the day before, sharing breakie, then wandering down to the Marina in your kit, with a bit of lunch and doing it all again. I love it. Image HIRW. Credit Andrea Francolini
Noosa Yacht & Rowing Club Second Noosa Gaff Rig Regatta
The Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club held the inaugural Noosa Gaff Rig regatta in 2019 in conjunction with a local charity on the banks of the Noosa River. The three race Sunday regatta was a great success with merry time had by all competitors. Unfortunately, due to Covid 19 restrictions the follow up 2020 regatta had to be cancelled. Now, in 2021 we have the Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club Gaff Rig regatta planned for Sunday the 6th June. Entries are basically for yachts with Gaff, Gunter or similar rigs and can be constructed of any material. NYRC can arrange launching, mooring, accommodation, crew and anything else if required.
Great Veteran’s Race For Sydney-Hobart Classic Yachts
To be sailed on Sydney Harbour, the Great Veterans Race is open to all boat that were launched prior to 1976 and that have completed a Sydney Hobart Race, or other veteran yachts invited by the OA.
The CYAA 2021 Winter series
The Victorian Classic Yacht Association Winter Series is due to start this Saturday 2nd May. Perhaps slightly counter intuitively, the winter series on Port Phillip, provides the best sailing conditions of the year. Be Part of it!
The 100th Lipton Cup-Ponsonby Cruising Club , Auckland, New Zealand.
The Lipton Cup is New Zealand’s oldest yachting trophy competed for by the same class. This race is sailed in 22ft L-Class yachts which are commonly referred to as Mullet Boats. Some of the race fleet are now over 100 years old and are still very competitive. The trophy, made by the same silversmith who made the America’s Cup, was donated by Sir Thomas Lipton who raced the America’s Cup 5 times, but never won.
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