The 2024 Festival of Sails has opened in sensational style with ‘Hooligan’ skippered by Marcus Blackmore snatching a nail-biting win in the 181st running of the iconic Passage Race from Melbourne to Geelong.
Some of the world’s elite cyclists competing in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race will be swapping bikes for boats at Festival of Sails as they head for the waters of Corio Bay tomorrow (Tuesday, January 23) for a ‘Pro-Am Challenge’.
Visitors to this year’s 2024 Festival of Sails will be welcomed through a new ‘Tipi on the Bay’ entrance taking pride of place on Fairnie Park on the Geelong waterfront, as the Royal Geelong Yacht Club ramps up the excitement at the 181st running of the largest keelboat racing regatta in the Southern Hemisphere.
Young local sailing star, 17-year-old Evie McDonald from Geelong has been appointed the Festival of Sails’ inaugural Youth Ambassador.
The popular emerging music artists’ competition presented by Forte Magazine will be making a return to the 2024 Festival of Sails and the call is now out for aspiring artists to register.
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is proud to announce that Australian sailing personality Nic Douglass has signed on to continue as Ambassador and Master of Ceremonies for the 2024 for Festival of Sails 2024, and her company Adventures of a Sailor Girl will officially become the media partner of the event.
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is proud to have delivered another successful Festival of Sails, seeing both the Geelong Waterfront and Corio Bay come alive…
A grey sky, light breeze and showers prefaced the final day of Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s 2023 Festival of Sails, but nothing was going to…
As the curtain closes on the 2023 Festival of Sails, the Royal Geelong Yacht Club is celebrating a regatta full of twist and turns for…
More than 125 enthusiastic volunteers have joined forces to work at the 2023 Festival of Sails, contributing more than 4000 hours of unpaid work hours…
