News from January 2012

Ben Nossiter skippering Sirius shook off the Hoodoo of recent times and claimed his second title in over 20 years of sailing Adams 10s. For as long as some can remember Ben has been the top boat in the Middle Harbour Yacht Club fleet, however each time the championship came around  success eluded him. This year however, with 4 wins and a second in 7 races, Ben showed the fleet his transom....
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Australian sailors have won two medals on the final day of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami, Florida, with Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page claiming Gold in the 470 class and Olivia Price, Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty picking up Silver in the Women’s Match Racing. For Belcher and Page Saturday’s win was the first time that either of them had stood on the top step o...
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Paralympic sailors Daniel Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch have picked up Australia’s first medal at the ISAF Sailing World Cup round in Miami, Florida, winning Gold in the Skud 18 class. The pair started the day tied on points at the front of the fleet with the 2012 World Champions from Great Britain with two races left to run on Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Fitzgibbon and T...
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A local sailor and his eight-year-old crew have taken the title of Australia’s top Heron sailors after winning the 53rd Heron National Championships last week. Greg Harris, 40, and Kai Johnston, from Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club, battled against 61 boats from all over the country to win the 10-day regatta, held at Lake Macquarie last week. It was a close finish with second placege...
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Congratulations goes to Greg Harris and Kai Johnston on winning the Heron Nationals. Fantastic racing to watch throughout the fleet as there were battles up the front and all the way to the back end! Big thanks to Iain Jensen for attending the presentation night as special guest. A special mention goes to Goughy and Ian Milton who managed to get their boats on the water just in time! Photo ...
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Craig Heydon, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 In a year of sporting ups and downs, it was Australia’s sailors that provided a shining light at the end of 2011, taking an impressive three gold medals at the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships. The newly crowned World Champions are some of the athletes selected today by the Australian Olympic Committee to compete at the Londo...
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On Boxing Day 2011, I was lucky enough to compete in my first Sydney to Hobart alongside my old man, Clyde ‘Camel’ Freeman (17 Hobarts). After more that 15 years of competitive sailing, including Sabots, Flying 11s (with Mel), 29ers and a multitude of other skiff, dinghy and yacht classes and now the Sydney to Hobart yacht race aboard Strewth. Starting my yachting career as a bo...
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Phil yesterday went for a bit of a drive up to Wangi Wangi.  Good luck to all of the A Class competitors sailing this week.  We will have more photos during the week.   Photo Album ...
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Coming to the end of 2011 the first half of the season has ended. And I have had an awesome time, done very well and picked up some major achievements on the way. Like the states, my first ever win and some tiring training in the Heron. To start we had our State Titles at Belmont Yacht Club. I picked up an awesome 1st Junior and 1st Lady Trophy as well as picking up 11th of 23 which is an o...
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