The NSW Government is extending its long-standing commitment to Sail Port Stephens, Australia’s second largest sailing regatta, with funding allocated for 2024 and further renewal options secured for 2025 and 2026. The announcement comes in the wake of the most successful regatta in the event’s 16-year history, which injected an estimated $2million into the region’s…
By Promocean Media Off-the-beach sailing was the winner today as more than 90 boats, comprising sports boats, J70s, International Canoes, RS Aeros, Finns, OK dinghies, Windsurfers and a smorgasbord of other classes, competed on three race tracks in Day 2 of the Sail Port Stephens Bay Series. Hosted by Bay Sailing Centre, and under the…
“I was watching the weather models all night and we were not expecting the weather to get fresh until around 1pm.” Denis Thompson, Principal Race Officer. The third and final day of the NSW Yachting Championships and Act 3 of the TP52 Gold Cup at Sail Port Stephens was an exciting one for competitors, and…
Saturday sunshine and up to 22 degrees made for a perfect morning at Sail Port Stephens as crews prepared for the second day of the NSW Yachting Championships and Act 3 of the TP52 Gold Cup. The wind forecast was for light and variable, and the race committee confirmed it as a passage race day…
The sun gods were being kind but not so much the wind gods at the beginning of the first day of the three day windward leeward series at Sail Port Stephens. The event is comprised of the NSW Yachting Championships (IRC), the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup, and the inaugural Rob Hampshire Trophy (ORC), raced…
With the Sail Port Stephens Passage Series now successfully run and won, the regatta gets its game face on from tomorrow as 23 yachts contest the 3-day Windward-Leeward Series comprising the NSW Yachting Championships (IRC) and inaugural Rob Hampshire Trophy (ORC). Headline attraction of the weekend is Act 3 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold…
The Sail Port Stephens Passage Series came to an early conclusion on Saturday with the fleet poised to start Race 5 until racing was abandoned due to a lack of consistent breeze. It was a stark contrast to the previous four days which featured the sort of conditions sailors long for but rarely get. Crews…
Day 4 at Sail Port Stephens saw crews on the 107 boats enjoy flawless conditions perfectly aligned to the scenic offshore courses set by Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson. A squeeze at the pin end of the start line in Division 1 resulted in Julian Bell’s 51st Project being recalled but slick crew work aboard the big Beneteau…
An enticing combination of sunshine, steady breeze and some fast sailing between Port Stephens’s magnificent offshore islands made for a banner Day 3 of the Sail Port Stephens Passage Series. The wind gods bestowed their fickle favours upon the race fleet comprising 107 boats across five divisions, dispatching a building nor’ east breeze for the…
Sailors were prominent among the big crowd that turned out for the traditional ANZAC Day dawn service at Nelson Bay. More than 500 people bowed their heads in respect for the ANZAC tradition and Australians who’ve served and died, as the first rays of sunlight filtered through the masts of the big fleet in town…