Keep an eye out for the hammerheads and turtles and embrace everything Hervey Bay throws at you – on and off the water. That’s the advice from eight-time Australian 16ft champion – and [...]
At Manly 16ft Skiff Club, a record number of females are entering the various classes on the back of the path paved by some of Australia’s finest women sailors. The likes of former Flying [...]
A good start, a good finish and a frustrating in-between. That’s the season summation from Modern Concept Constructions skipper Gerard Smith after he and crew-mates Chris Williams and [...]
Victorious Shebang skipper Anthony King has the perfect response to those questioning the validity of his drought-breaking win in last Saturday’s 12th short course pointscore race of the [...]
“You’ll never hear a bad word said about him.” It’s a line regularly trotted out when underlining someone’s popularity and personality. Truth is, we’ve all [...]
If first you don’t succeed…write it off as a shocker and go again. Sail Racing took the view that there was no point stewing over last Saturday’s first short course race after beating just [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
There was one moment that perfectly illustrated the impact Manly 16ft Skiff Club’s swap day can have on the next generation of sailors. Club commodore and Olympic champion Malcolm Page [...]
