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Date: 15th June 2009
By: Jodie Bakewell-White

Aleh and Powrie finish 3rd at 470 Europeans

Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie have claimed a podium finish at the 2009 Women’s 470 European Championships just concluded in Lake Traunsee, Austria.

The New Zealand pair, campaigning this year in the Olympic double-handed class for the first time have finished 3rd in the regatta dogged by cancelled racing. The regatta is an important event on the Olympic high performance circuit.

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Yachting Australia announces Peter Conde as High Performance Director

Australian Sailing Team High Performance Director Peter Conde Craig Heydon, Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Yachting Australia has appointed Peter Conde as High Performance Director, to lead the Australian Sailing Team and the supporting high performance programs.

An accomplished sailor with podium finishes in Etchells and Laser World Championships and architect of Yachting Australia'... Read More

Yachting Australia President joins AOC Executive

Yachting Australia President Andrew Plympton

Craig Heydon, Saturday, 9 May 2009

Yachting Australia President Andrew Plympton has been elected to the Australian Olympic Committee Executive.

Plympton was elected to the board at the AOC's Annual General Meeting in Sydney on Saturday, with John Coates re-elected as AOC President.

Plympton is looking forward to working alongside the AOC in... Read More

OSTAR START< 5 June 1976

With 125 entries, 1976 was the biggest race. The entry list also featured the largest yachts, the giant 236ft Club Mediterranée and 1972 Entry Vendredi Treize renamed ITT Oceanic. Two deep low pressure areas passed through course during the race and were the main cause of the large retirement list, particularly to those on the northern route. This was the first OSTAR appearance of the now famous British yachtsman Tony Bullimore. Bullimore became... Read More

Isn't it funny that an event can drag other stories out of the woodwork.

I have been amazed this week at the number of multihull owners and sailors that are able to sympathise with the crew of Catabatic as they too have been on a multihull that has turned turtle.

Click here to see the salvage story

This got me to thinking about just how many multihulls turn over and why this could be. I also have a sneaking suspicion that most of the multihulls involved in these kind of si... Read More

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