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Roger Hickman heads Yachting NSW |
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Well known expatriate Tasmanian yachtsman Roger Hickman has been elected President of Yachting New South Wales, the peak administrative body for sailing in that State. His election follows a distinguished career in yachting, including two Sydney Hobart Race overall wins, and long service as a director and flag officer of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and a director and vice-president of YNSW. |
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Sailing South Regatta 2009 |
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The opening race of the 2009 United Financial Services Sailing South Regatta will be sailed in conjunction with the Wrest Point King of the Derwent Race, with the four-day Regatta running from Friday, 2 January through to Monday, 5 January. The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania has begun distributing copies of the Notice of Race and Entry Form to all past competitors for what will be the eighth annual Sailing South Regatta on the waters of south-eastern Tasmania and the River Derwent. |
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Yachting Australia has honoured Murray Jones, a Director of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, with the Volunteer Of The Year Award for his dedication to all areas of sailing. Murray received his award at the Go for Gold Gala in Sydney last evening (2 May), an event that was also a farewell to the Australian sailing team for the Beijing Olympics. |
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Farr 40 skipper 'tough nut' |
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 Farr 40 skipper Hughie Lewis (Eurocentral) showed just how tough he is by returning to the water only eight weeks after suffering a major head trauma, to take victory in Hobart’s unofficial Farr 40 State Championship. The five race series, sailed in light but steady conditions on the River Derwent in April, was tightly contested with each race producing close tactical sailing and numerous lead changes.
Local race followers were looking forward to a day of intense rivalry between former world champion International Dragon Class sailor Stephen Boyes and Andrew Hunn, but the blue and red boats could not match the class of Eurocentral. As is often the case in one design sailing, the day belonged to the fastest and most consistent boat on the water. Eurocentral got the gun in three of the five races, finishing the series two points clear of War Games (Wayne Banks-Smith). In third place was Voodoo Chile (Lloyd Clark/Andrew Hunn) followed by Stephen Boyes (Wired) and POW (Craig Clifford. |
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Woman skipper wins Bruny Is Race |
 For the first time in its 110-year history, Tasmania’s historic Bruny Island Race has been won by a woman skipper, with Hobart yachtswoman Dianne Barkas sailing the Sydney 38 Asylum to provisional first place in both the IRC and PHS handicap divisions.
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s Principal Race Officer Roger Martin has confirmed Asylum as the winner of both divisions with the fleet now finishing the 89 nautical mile race by mid-morning today. All but one of the 19 starters completed the course.
The Bruny Island Race, first sailed in 1898, circumnavigates Bruny Island, the elongated island south of Hobart. It is the oldest regularly conducted ocean race in Australia. |
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Bruny fleet at Tasman Head |
Dianne Barkas, one of two women skippers in the 82nd Bruny Island Race, tonight is battling for the lead with two much more experienced male skippers as the fleet nears the halfway mark in the 89 nautical mile race along the southern coast of Tasmania.
Barkas, skipper of the Sydney 38 Asylum, late this afternoon reported her position as abeam of Tasman Island, 1.5 nautical miles north of the Friars, the treacherous rocks off the southern tip of Bruny Island.
Asylum was sharing the lead with Dr Who (Rod Jackman) and Intrigue (David Calvert), two yachts which have each previously won the Bruny Island Race on handicap six times. This is the first Bruny Island Race for Asylum. |
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Bruny Island Race under way |
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A fleet of 19 yachts is heading down the Derwent River from Hobart this morning in the historic Bruny Island Race, the 82nd running of Australia’s oldest regularly run ocean race since 1898. Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania Race officer Roger Martin has sent the fleet on an outside/inside course – passing the Iron Pot to sail out into Storm Bay and down the Oceanside coast of Bruny Island – on a fine and sunny morning.
After rounding Tasman Head and Cape Bruny, the yachts will sail back to Hobart through the winding reaches of the d’Entrecasteaux Channel, a total distance of 89 nautical miles.
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 Intrigue The fleet of 20 modern ocean racers will sail the same course that eight gaff-rigged wooden boats took when they set sail from Hobart on March 17 1898 - down the Derwent River to circumnavigate elongated Bruny Island that runs almost to the southernmost shores of Tasmania. The Bruny Island Race will start from Hobart’s Castray Esplanade at 9.30am on Saturday, when the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania race committee will signal yachts in which direction they must circumnavigate Bruny Island, depending on the weather forecast. The fleet will sail either straight out from the river past the Iron Pot into Storm Bay and down the ocean side of Bruny Island to round Tasman Head and Cape Bruny before entering d’Entrecasteaux Channel and then sail up the inshore passage back to the Derwent and Hobart – or a reverse course. The race is a demanding combination of ocean and inshore racing, with its variety of offshore winds and seas in Storm Bay and inshore, the currents and tides and wind variations of winding d’Entrecasteaux Channel. |
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