Festival Dates 25th - 27th January, 2020
MacGlide Festival of Sails has teamed up with leading sustainability and innovation company Joco, to help raise awareness about reducing plastic waste and how small changes in our daily habits impact our environment. Founded in Torquay in 2008, Joco creates eco-innovative, reusable drinking cups which are 100 per cent plastic free and designed for […]
Billy Parker is hoping for a double celebration this weekend, when the MacGlide Festival of Sails kicks off on Saturday with the historic Passage Race. The Royal Geelong Yacht Club stalwart will celebrate his 82nd birthday on Saturday, competing in the spectacular 56km Passage Race from Williamstown to Geelong – the curtain-raiser to the […]
A fleet of 245 boats will set sail tomorrow for the spectacular 56km Passage Race from Williamstown to Geelong. The oldest race in Australia will mark the start of the 177th MacGlide Festival of Sails, which runs in Geelong until Monday afternoon. More than 100,000 people are expected to flock to the Geelong […]
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) has announced it will contribute $10,000 to kick start a ‘Festival of Sails’ bushfire appeal in the wake of cancelling its traditional Australia Day Fireworks show, next Sunday January 26. While the fireworks display is normally one of the highlights of the MacGlide Festival of Sails, Chairman Stuart […]
