Marine photographer Jane Austin was the official photographer for the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta and many of her pictures can be seen on various web sites, including sail-world.com. Here is one of her best shots from the weekend:
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Marine photographer Jane Austin was the official photographer for the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta and many of her pictures can be seen on various web sites, including sail-world.com. Here is one of her best shots from the weekend:
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According to owner Harold Clark ‘I just went along for ballast’ when his son Darren helmed the family yacht Invincible to a treble handicap victory in the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta sailed on Hobart’s River Derwent over the weekend.
Intrigue broaches on...
Young Tasmanian dinghy and sailboard sailors today gave a fine exhibition of their racing versatile skills and seamanship in winds that ranged from 8 knots to 30 knots in a demanding day on Hobart’s River Derwent.
Being on the water did little to reduce the oppressive 36 degrees heat and near gale-force northerly winds sweeping down the Derwent Valley, yet few of the young off...
Despite a morning breeze that disappeared around midday, race officers of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta managed to complete four races today, as scheduled for the huge fleet of 101 off-the-beach regatta entries.
As the river turned into a glassy pond and temperature soared...
Bellerive yachtsman Colin Denny spends much of his life ashore dealing with Tasmania’s nautical history; afloat, he looks for the very latest in state-of-the-art racing yachts.
Colin Denny helming The Protagonist today, Photo: Peter Campbell
Denny is...
Hobart turned on a superb late summer twilight evening for the opening of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta, with more than 100 keelboats, sports boats and trailable yachts enjoying a relatively placid sail around the cans. Jane Austen captured some of the racing....
Tony Lyall’s ocean racing yacht Cougar II unleashed her remarkable boat speed this evening in the opening race of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta, her first round-the-buoys race on Hobart’s Derwent River.
Cougar II powers to windward in the twilight opener....
A fleet of a dozen Paper Tiger catamarans will provide an added spectacle to this weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on Hobart’s River Derwent.
Nick Browne will be sailing his Paper Tiger this weekend. Photo: Peter Campbell
It will be...
When more than a dozen International Cadet crews compete in the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta this weekend it will be more than just another regatta. It will be an important step in their program to represent their club and their nation at the Cadet worlds next summer.
Their club, Sandy Bay Sailing Club on the shores of Nutgrove Beach, will be hosting the Nationals and the Worlds...
This weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta can trace its roots back to one of the earliest regattas on the River Derwent, the Kangaroo Point Regatta held on 4th January 1854.
However, according to historic book “A Hundred Years of Yachting”, there may have been earlier regattas on the eastern shores, 1851 or 1852, which fixes the birth of the Bellerive Regatta...