Just over a month after Hobart’s biggest summer of sailing, the Tasmania’s young dinghy sailors again turned out in strength for the 2013 Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on the Derwent.
More than 80 off-the-beach boats, ranging from tiny Optimists to hull-flying B14s and Paper Tiger...
Bellerive Yacht Club members dominated keelboat results at the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta, with Invincible (Darren Clark) taking out Group 1 AMS and IRC overall and Host Plus Executive (Jeff Cordell) winning the PHS category. Host Plus Executive also finished third in AMS.
Prominent Hobart yachtsman Scott Brain yesterday added another impressive victory to his long sailing career when he convincingly won the Tasmanian championship in the high performance SB20 sports boat class.
The popular one-design SB20s held their State championship as part of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on the River Derwent over the weekend, with more than 180 keelboats, sports...
Australian International Cadet champion Sam Tiedemann reiterated the helming skills he showed in the nationals last December with three impressive wins today at the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta.
A dozen Cadets are contesting the two regatta for dinghy classes, with close competition in each of the three races sailed on the Derwent today.
While he came out the winner, Tiedemann...
Bellerive Yacht Club members not only strongly supported the Crown Series, but with one day of racing left, are dominating the keelboat results.
The regatta began with a twilight race on Friday evening and today saw the 80 keelboat and sports boat fleet joined by some 60 off-the-beach dinghies, skiffs and catamarans. Weather conditions so far have been ideal, although the breeze faded...
Hobart’s River Derwent this evening turned on perfect weather for sailing as 75 keelboats and SB20 sports boats contested the opening twilight race of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta.
A 12-15 knot north-easterly breeze gave the fleet ample room on an otherwise empty harbour, with close results in each of the eight fleets.
In Racing Group 1, the Farr 1104 Invincible,...
The ninth annual Crown Series Bellerive Regatta, starting this evening, Friday, 22 February, has attracted an outstanding fleet of 96 keelboats, sports boats and trailable yachts.
A similar number of off-the-beach dinghies and small catamarans will join the yachts in racing over the weekend...
A new Production Yacht division has been added to this year’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta, aimed at enticing owners of Beneteau, Jeanneau, Bavaria and other production cruising yachts to compete in the popular regatta.
“There has been a notable growth in production yachts at southern Tasmanian yacht clubs and many of them compete in twilight races; we are now encouraging...
The 9th Crown Series Bellerive Regatta will
be held in February 2013. Since it began in
2005 the Regatta has more than doubled in
size and continues to go from strength to
strength. The Regatta attracts the largest
combined fleet of any event in Tasmania,
with well in excess of 200 entries in 2012.
The regatta is a coordinated e ort involving...