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Historical 18ft Skiff ANZAC Regatta 2013 – Regatta Page

Historical 18ft Skiff ANZAC Regatta 2013 – Regatta Page

With regret, the Brisbane 18 Footers has elected to cancel this event due to the limited number of entries received. The Club would like to encourage Members and skiffies to get to the Queensland Maritime Museum to see their display on the 18ft skiffs in lieu.  More details to follow.  

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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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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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H10s – 2012 Aust Champs Heat 4

H10s – 2012 Aust Champs Heat 4

Heat 4 saw 10 starters head to the start line, with Keriki and Wrecker being non-starters. The breeze about 15 knots but thankfully the tide was at the top of the flood so would play no part in today's race. The course again was a reach across the start line to Bulimba Point, a work [...]

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H10s – 2012 Aust Champs Heat 3

H10s – 2012 Aust Champs Heat 3

Heat 3 was set down for a 2pm start but was delayed till 2.10pm. The course was to be the same as this morning's, up to Comslie and set kites to head for home. This may not sound much but it's a very long work to the top mark and back, battling gusts and swell, [...]

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H10s – 2012 Aust Champs Heat 2

H10s – 2012 Aust Champs Heat 2

With Heat 2 down to start at 11am, the fleet was greeted with a 15 knot southerly, slack tide and a small swell at the Colmslie mark. Again the fleet hang back at the start which was a broad reach up to Bulimba Point, only Avro was on the line at the gun. This morning [...]

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