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18s – Queensland Championships Races 3 & 4

18s – Queensland Championships Races 3 & 4

What an absolutely fantastic day of 18 sailing. Four boats faced the starter for Races 3 and 4 of the Queensland championships – Brisbane18footers.com, APC Logistics, Insert Sponsor Here and Blue Wave Rigging. The breeze was up and down with squalls as we lined up for the first start. Adam (Blue Wave) pulled a kamikaze [...]

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Early Bird Registration for Harsco Infrastructure 53rd 12ft Skiff Interdominion closing!

Early Bird Registration for Harsco Infrastructure 53rd 12ft Skiff Interdominion closing!

A quick reminder that the early bird registration for entries to the Harsco Infrastructure 53rd 12ft Skiff Interdominion is closing this Friday, 7th December 2012!  Get on to our regatta home page, complete and ensure payment is received by the secretary by Friday to avoid the $50 late fee.

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18s Race Report – End of Days

The BOM said 20-25 knots all afternoon with a S.E. change. Seabreeze said 15 knots early, down to 5 and back up to 20 in the afternoon. This guy predicted a ‘super storm’, and the end-of-days, and every other weather report said something different. 4 boats turned up to battle it out for the first [...]

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Calling all volunteers!

Calling all volunteers!

Like all sporting events, our fair sport needs help in getting the races up and running… someone with a loud voice to take entries and ensure those entrants are on the water with sufficient time to make the start area BEFORE the scheduled start, and drivers and crews for our support boats which act in [...]

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Winning Appliances

Shane and the lads on Winning Appliances have been hard at it training down on the Gold Coast, away from the prying eyes of the rest of the Brisbane fleet.  Check out the action!

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Bert Spring Trophy

Spring has sprung – oh yeah!

Yep, it’s that time when spiders get flushed from masts, booms and spinnaker bags, leaves and other assorted crap is removed from the boat, and skippers and crews alike scratch their heads and try to remember what goes where.  IT’S SAILING SEASON!! Looking forward this season, we’ll be linking in with the newly established greenandgoldsailing.com to help [...]

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