Competitors in Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week sailed in conditions quite different to yesterday’s when a light 7 plus knot breeze wafted across Pioneer Bay and beyond, giving the light air specialists their chance to shine in the game of concentration.
What a way to start Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Airlie Beach Race Week – a mass two-line downwind start with billowing spinnakers sailing towards Double Cone Island in a light breeze – and a little sports boat, aptly named ‘Heat’ leading the fleet.
Entries have closed and Whitsunday Sailing Club organisers are pleased with the large jump in numbers to119 received for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, which for a range of reasons, continues to attract a profusion of boats every year.
Airlie Beach Race Week on track for all-time record entries
Just over two weeks out from the Close of Entries, the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week is heading for the record books with more entries received to-date than ever before and edging closer to the all-time record of 133 in 2016.
Airlie Beach Race Week - soaring numbers and a ‘Clash of the Titans’
Officials from Whitsunday Sailing Club are gearing up for possible record numbers and a ‘Clash of the Titans’ between the top two TP52’s in the country at the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, to be held from 9-16 August.
Airlie Beach Race Week: First local entry is ‘one to beat’
If Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban is the ‘one to beat’ in the IRC class, then multihull racers should watch out for Paul Mitchell’s Ullman Sails at Airlie Beach Race Week 2018.
Mitchell, a sail-maker and life-long Whitsunday sailor with national and international titles to his name, was determined to be the first local entry to the 30th anniversary of his home regatta.
Ichi Ban No. 1 entry for 30th Airlie Beach Race Week
Entry for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week has opened, and Matt Allen is the first of three high profile owners announcing their intention to take part – he is entering his newest Ichi Ban, winner of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Ichi Ban No. 1 entry for 30th Airlie Beach Race Week
Entry for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week has opened, and Matt Allen is the first of three high profile owners announcing their intention to take part – he is entering his newest Ichi Ban, winner of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sails was a light weather regatta - race officials were even forced to abandon all attempts at racing yesterday - and for a short time it looked likely to happen again today, but just after 11am all that changed.
The weather gods smiled, answering competitors' prayers in the Whitsunday Sailing Club hosted event, a light zephyr of breeze filtering across Pioneer Bay in time to start a bay course.
