Festival of Sails 2026 continued on Sunday 25 January with racing filling Corio Bay with action and colour. Several divisions completed their series today, with tight results reflecting the staunch competition on the water. In the J24 Division Hugo Ottoway’s Bruschetta VI won their four-race series by three points from Daniel Gallagher’s Dutch Tilt, who held the same margin over Simon Grain’s Convicts Revenge. The Passage Mini Series saw Reverie with a win in race two today to secure a...
The Festival of Sails presented by TLC Healthcare is underway with spectacular scale and tradition, drawing more than 260 boats to Victoria’s waters for one of Australia’s premier sailing events. At the heart of the action is the Holiday Inn & Suites Geelong Passage Race, which today marked its 183rd edition, with more than 200 yachts starting their journey from Melbourne at the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria and racing toward the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. Conditions were glorious for...
On the race track, in Passage Rating Division 1, Team Hollywood skippered by Raymond Roberts claimed victory in race 2 to lift themselves into the lead on IRC and AMS. Fargo skippered by Ari Abrahams leads on ORC, with Damien Thomas’ PP1 holding top position in the Super 40’s series. Clockwork’s co-skippers Andrew Lloyd and Mary Ann Harvey still continue their lead on IRC in Passage Rating Division 2. Nigel Jones and Cam Mckenzie’s Ginan near-perfect scorecard means they remain...
Race Results From 25/01/25: After corrected time, Chutzpah are second overall in Passage Rating Division 1 on ORC, AMS and IRC. Just beating them into first place for the Lou Abrahams Memorial Trophy for first overall leaderboard for all classes of handicap in Division 1 is Phoenix 3 skippered by Royal Geelong Yacht Club local, Brenton Carnell. “It’s a little bit too good,” Carnell joked. “I think we did what everybody didn’t do, off the start line, we backed off...