The 73rd Australian Championship for 12ft Skiff class sailing boats was held at the Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff Club over Easter 2008. The Club has been conducting sailing boat races since 1896 and has been involved in 12ft Skiff racing since 1916. For more interesting facts ...  click here.
News from Karyn Gojnich ... the Beijing Campaign
Audi Cruising Yacht Club Youth Academy Squads
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Seven Lane Cove sailors have been selected to join 2007 Audi Cruising Yacht Club Youth Academy Squads. The CYC’s three squads provide an opportunity to extend the sailing skills of competent sailors. Over winter the squad members will work with coaches from the CYC Youth Academy and visiting sailors such as Sydney Olympic Gold Medalist Tom King and head sailing coach at the NSW Institute of Sport Eric Stibbe. The development work will include both fleet racing and match racing skills.
Lane Cove Flying Eleven sailors Tim Forbes-Smith, Alex Paton and Claire Lunsmann together with Sabot sailors Oliver Hartas and Andrew Lee have been selected for the Academy’s Talented Sailor Squad. Cherub sailors Jay Griffin and Catherine Trew have been invited to join the Academy’s Advanced Squad.
Past News items
NSW Youth Match Racing Championship, (posted August 2006)
Lane Cove's current Flying Eleven Club Champion Jay Griffin put in an awesome effort in the recent Club Marine NSW Youth Match Racing Championship finishing seventh overall. Sailing in his first major match racing series fourteen year old Jay was up against much older and more experienced opposition yet still managed to claim some big wins.
The series, sailed over two days at the CYCA, featured some of the State's top young sailors.
Overall winner of the Championship for the second year was the current Yachting Australia Youth Sailors of the Year Evan Walker. The series was sailed over two days with the final day sailed in a fresh and gusty 18kt Southerly.
Another Lane Cove Flying Eleven sailor Kate Brown was part of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron crew who finished ninth overall.
12ft Skiff Australian Championship double to Lane Cove (posted April 2006)
Nick Press and Brad Yabsley have done it; they now have the Australian title to their credit after earlier this season winning the NSW title and last year winning the Interdominion. Abbotsford turned on a really enjoyable series and we managed to get one solid fresh breeze to keep the spectators (and sailors) happy.
In addition to the win by Nick & Brad in Yabba Dabba, our other Nick, Nick Bernard sailing with Glenn Farquhar in Bush Oyster cleaned up the handicap.
Second overall were Brett Hobson and Alex Johnson in Garde and third were Jonathon Temple and Richard Jones in P&O both from the Sydney Flying Squadron
New racks for Sabots and Manly Juniors (posted March 2006)
Well done to the large and enthusiastic team of volunteers that turned up the Sunday before last and turned to good use some racking which was no longer required by the Sabot Association. If you haven’t seen it, take a look - we now fit 4 extra boats in the same area and are storing them on their cradles thus getting the cradles off the floor, and the aisle is considerably wider.
Yabba Dabba takes out Garde Series (posted March 2006)
Lane Cove’s Nick Press and Brad Yabsley were overall winners of the Garde Series sailed over 5 days during the season out of the Sydney Flying Squadron. For full results go to: www.skiff.org.au/garde.htm.
Chappos take Flying 11s Nationals - Lane Cove takes the teams’ event (posted January 2006)
We've done it! Congratulations to all the Flying Eleven sailors on their performances at Belmont in the Australian Championship but particularly Andrew and Alison Chapman (River Rat) on their big win, Jay Griffin and Amy Gojnich (JynX) on a well sailed 3rd and Evan Williams and Alex Paton (The Rat) on their 10th in a massive fleet of 72 boats. Well done guys, we’re proud of you.
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Aussie Angels...4th in the world (pdf, opens in new window) (posted 28 July 2005)
Mrs Carolyn Biggs (posted October 2004)
At the Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 10 June 2004, Mrs Carolyn Biggs was awarded the highest honour the club can bestow on anyone, Life Membership, which was formally awarded to her on 22 October 2004.
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News from Ray Holland (posted 8 July 2004)
Some emails to club members from our commodore before last, Ray Holland, who with wife Leanne is enjoying life in his Bavaria 44 in the other hemisphere.
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They've done it! (posted Tue 6 April 2004)
Congratulations to our club patron, Adrienne Cahalan! From a start in Lasers at Lane Cove in her early teens, our club patron and Australian Female Sailor of the Year, Adrienne Cahalan, playing the pivotal role of Navigator, has been part of the team, at 43 minutes past midnight on 6 April (local time), to break the Round the World Sailing Record aboard the 125' maxi-catamaran Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne crew member Fraser Brown's onboard news (posted Tue 9 March 2004)
Fraser Brown, Kiwi 12 footer sailor, was another crew member on board Cheyenne on its record-breaking voyage. This email news from Fraser was forwarded to the club commodore by Jimmy Walsh on March 1. It's well worth a read!
Fraser Brown's news from Cheyenne
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