Category: Sailing News

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18 Footer Nationals Go To Brisbane

  35-year wait will come to an end in January 2025 When the 2024-25 Australian 18 footer Championship is sailed on Waterloo Bay, Brisbane next January, it will become

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William ‘Billo’ Hayward

Second only to the immortal Chris Webb” William J. ‘Billo’ Hayward was not only one of the great champion 18 footer skippers at the NSW (now

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Vale Bob Ross

A great Australian sailing photo-journalist, editor and author When Bob Ross passed away recently Australia lost one of its greatest sailing and yachting photo-journalists, magazine founder

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Australian 18 footers Head to Italy

 25-year challenge for the European Championship The Australian 18 Footers League will continue its international 18ft skiff program when a strong 10-team challenge heads off for

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The Oak Double Bay 4 Pines 2024

Outstanding 2023-24 performance by the young, rookie team One of the real highlights of the Australian 18 Footer League’s 2023-24 Sydney Harbour season was the

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International 18s in the 1950s

A period of New Zealand-led design & innovation   Following the first major change in the 18 footers from the big boats of the early

JJ Giltinan 2023-24

Victorian team at the 2024 JJs

Reflecting on the “bucket list experience”   Just six months ago, November 2023, Scott Cunningham and Brody Riley came to Sydney and picked up the