They’re usually harder to herd than cats, but as many as 20 crews will contest the Australian Sport Boat Association’s (ASBA) national titles from April 7-9 as part of the 2017 Sail Port Stephens race week. At the same time, around a dozen super-charged Super 12s will vie for their NSW state title, the strongest…
Sail Port Stephens is welcoming Sailability and Special Olympics sailors for the first time, contesting the Port Stephens Cup Regatta at Grahamstown Dam, near Newcastle, this weekend (11-12 March). Jason Elwes, secretary for the Grahamstown Dam Sailing Club and treasurer for the Sailability program, is expecting up to 20 boats for the first sponsored event in Sail Port Stephens’…
Everywhere you look these days, women’s sport is coming out of the doldrums. So it’s not surprising that the 2017 Sail Port Stephens race week will have its strongest ever representation of yachtswomen. The Women Who Sail Australia (WWSA) group will be staging their second annual Gathering on the Bay as an entrée to Sail…
The 10th anniversary Sail Port Stephens regatta is expanding and moving to a new timeslot in April 2017, avoiding a clash with the peak Easter period. The revised dates for the fast-growing event are 3-9 April 2017, preceding the NSW school break, with the iconic Commodores Cup scheduled for the first three days and the…
A morning drifter delaying the race starts both inshore and offshore graduated to a gloriously warm light air afternoon for the first-ever Sail Port Stephens’ Broughton Island Passage Race. IRC division 1 contested the full 31 nautical mile course and the other divisions a shorter version in 10 knot average nor’easterlies. Once again Matt Allen’s…
Port Stephens turned on a stunning autumn day and better than expected winds for the opening races of Sail Port Seasons’ second stage, called the Port Stephens Trophy, for near to 100 boats. Fleets fanned out under separate race management teams for the spectacular passage race in building afternoon nor’easters around the three islands off…
Matt Allen’s NSW IRC Championship title quest is in full swing with three straight wins and an early IRC division 1 series lead for his TP52 Ichi Ban on the opening day at Sail Port Stephens. Three IRC fleets ran through three windward/leeward races offshore in building NE winds north of Cabbage Tree Island, at…
Two junior off the beach classes completed their two-day series on Thursday April 14 as part of Sail Port Stephens, the final event of a long summer season that has taken many young sailors interstate and some overseas to compete. Jack Ferguson, 13, won the Optimist division from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s Oliver…
Six of the seven known original skippers from the inaugural Sail Port Stephens in 2008 gathered today at the regatta headquarters at d’Albora Marina Nelson Bay, along with members of the original management team, to reminisce. The skippers group was presented with a special jug of ‘Sail Ale’, brewed in Newcastle as a one-off for…
Close to 1000 sailors are resting on the layday and tinkering on boats ticking off the last of the job list in preparation for a light and tricky Port Stephens Trophy, the top gear second half of the annual week-long regatta. The light weather boats and sailors are expected to fare well, the forecast indicating…