On Tuesday evening Southport Yacht Club recognised it’s high achieving sailors for their results over the Summer Sailing Season. Mathew Belcher, Will Ryan, Victor Kovalenko and Shane Smith presented the awards to our junior, youth and adult sailors who finished in the Top 5 in their division or age group. Victor spoke to the sailors…
Five members of the SYC Performance Team contested the 2018 Australian & Oceania Laser Championships held at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. All performed well in their respective divisions with variable conditions. Tom Wright fought hard to get 4th Australian Youth Male in the 4.7 Class and Junior Commodore Melanie Watson also ended up with 4th…
Ashleigh Swadling and George Morton take out Sail Sydney Nacra 15 Titles and Harry Hogan 1st in the Optimist Green Fleet! There were seven SYC members competing at this year’s Sail Sydney and all had great results. Blake Wilson 3rd and Austin Cross 23rd in the Optimist Gold Fleet, Jack O’Hagan 16th & Leonardo Hughes…
We joined the performance program when it started last year. We are 10 and 8 and sail our Sabot ‘Tomahawk’ together as a 2up team. All week we look forward to training days. Since we started with the team we have learned how to gybe properly in higher wind, improve our upwind sailing and mark…
My name is Oscar Gray and I’m 12 years old. At the moment, I sail an Open Bic. I first started sailing on and off on Sundays with the Fun Sail Program, at 6 years old. When I was 10 years old I decided to progress to the next stage, as I found sailing fun.…
My performance journey: I first joined the Performance Program at the start of 2017 in my O’pen Bic ‘Instead of a Pony’, except I wasn’t sailing a lot until recently this year. Before joining the team I had been sailing in my O’pen Bic for a couple of years. The Performance Teams training sessions…
My sailing journey My name is Jack. I first started sailing in x3’s in the Sunday morning fun sail. I really enjoyed sailing and progressed to the Opti class where I sailed for 5 years. I went a couple of regattas including the states in Mooloolaba and the nationals at Mornington peninsula. When I became…