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| QUEENSLAND SHARPIE ASSOCIATION NEWS!
69th SHARPIE NATIONALS AT RQYC, QUEENLSAND New shortened format for the 69th SHARPIE NATIONALS - sailing from Thursday 29th December to 5th January 2012 gets underway in strong conditions on Waterloo Bay, Manly, hosted by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron... read more on sailworld.com Scratch
Results
April 2011
At least, on the Saturday we did, around 14 – 16 knots, probably the best wind we’ve had all this season. Having an inkling the wind was going to be light on Sunday, we crammed in 3 short 40 minute races on Saturday, and it was all great fun. Elke, Sam and Rowan on the Gingerbread Man gave us all a great lesson in boat speed on the Saturday, and came from behind to win the light heat on Sunday proving excellent consistency and skill to win in the testing 5 – 7 knot breeze for Heat 8. The local guys on Ullman Sails skippered by Jonno Freeman were also consistent, getting mostly second places, with Damian from Yeppoon performing well to grab 3rd place overall. We were all thankful for the great courses and organisation by the Sandgate Yacht Club crew, including the hot snags and cold beers after the races. It was also great to see the new home built boat launched by the veteran Sandgate crew led by Owen Hutchison on the Sunday. She had a bit of a shake-down cruise and managed to stay afloat and get spinnakers set, so all bodes well for her future racing. Download results for the state title racing at both Lake Cootharaba and Sandgate here. The format of holding the States at 2 different venues over more heats seemed to work well. We look forward to a bigger fleet next season racing regularly leading up to the Brisbane Nationals. To finish off this season, there is racing at the Lake
Cootharaba regatta over Easter, the May regatta at Yeppoon, and the Sail
Mooloolaba event in June.
14 February 2011 It's exactly the right time to be planning ahead for the next nationals to be held at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadran in Brisbane, Queensland.. There will be more info coming out shortly, but yes there will be camping allowed on site at the club. You might like to contact the club directly as it is yet to be confirmed if if they want to take bookings or just let people turn up. Although there's plenty of room for camping, there may be quite a few Laser sailors camping there as well. There has been great feedback at Black Rock from sailors from all states wanting to come to the Qld titles, so it should be a great series. Download, print and distribute this flyer at your local club - 69th Sharpie Nationals at RQYC Easter 2011 - State Titles at RQYS Pass the word around that we're holding the last 4 heats of our state titles at RQYS on the weekend of April 2 & 3, with the intention to invite NSW boats up for a preview of the club and sailing conditions.
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