The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.

REGATTAS Mark Chew REGATTAS Mark Chew

Sydney Hobart Classic Yacht Regatta 2025

What I really like is the inclusion of an IOR Division that is open to any yacht that has a launch date after 1975 and prior to 1991 and has competed in a Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. This brings new purpose to a whole style of racer that has been left floundering in the wake of rule changes over the last three decades.

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RACING Charlie Salter RACING Charlie Salter

THE 2022 CUP REGATTA - A CLASSIC COMMUNITY

This was a weekend to celebrate the boats and the shipwrights who maintain them. The willingness to share information, answer questions and put in for each other is the way. While we like to sail well, winning races has small interest for this classic community.

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