The initial signs didn’t look great when Heidi Bates and Orlando Sadlik first joined forces on Harken ahead of Manly’s 2023/24 13ft season. The teenage pair spent just as much time in [...]
They’ve won Olympic gold medals, national 16ft titles and state championships. Now Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page can add another honour to the list – Manly 16ft Skiff Club Champions. The [...]
Heidi Bates may have to adjust her season goals as the first-year skipper continues to make huge inroads in the 13s fleet. After cutting her teeth in the Optimists dingy class before graduating [...]
It was a victory 15 years in the making – celebrated with a spicy rum and ginger ale after attending to parenthood duties. Manly’s Daniel “Ruffy” Turner is finally a NSW 16ft [...]
Dave O’Connor admits he’s still not completely over the national title he “lost” in extraordinary circumstances almost a year ago. In fact, he reckons there’s a [...]
It takes a lot for Mal Page to pull out of a race. But after being crook for over a week and losing seven kilos and a number of days off work, the Olympic gold medallist started ringing around [...]
James Hopkins can remember a time when Manly’s 13ft fleet could be counted on one hand, with a finger or two to spare. Even though the class has been around since the early 2000s, numbers [...]
It took six years for the Port Jackson 16ft Championship to be revived – and only two hours for the fleet to be reminded just how brutal a race it can be. The famous event was first held just [...]
Asked why he thought it had taken longer than expected to gel as a team so far this season, Moonen Yachts skipper Daniel Turner replied: “It took a bit of time for us to stop sailing like [...]
Sail Racing skipper Felix Grech was so ill the night before the start of Manly’s club championship opener, it was touch and go whether he’d make it to the start line. One lap into the [...]