By Peter Kovesi Making the trip to Walpole this year were Crazy Bird with John Longley and his team, Wee Birlinn with Jim Black and Dave Archer, and Whimbrel with myself and Paul Ricketts. To their great credit, with 100 entries and over 200 sailors, the Walpole Yacht Club now runs one of the largest…
By Jeremy Stockley. Sunday 8th November dawned fine, calm and cool, in pleasant contrast to the previous day’s showers and squalls. Thanks to the preparations by Nathan, the bosun, the RFBYC jetty was ready at 1000 to welcome the first few boats to arrive. By soon after midday we counted fifteen boats alongside the jetty,…
By Chris Robinson, President OGA of WA. On Sunday 27th September 2015, Tony O’Connor launched Fontana having started building her at his East Rockingham workshop in June 2014 in between his busy schedule of custom boat building, boat repairs and boat modification jobs. Tony’s target was to transport his workmanship to Hobart to exhibit the…
Follow the link below to enjoy the adventure 1718km of driving, 222km of sailing, and 84mm of rain Sail to exotic shores with red beaches. Navigate big seas… …to get to an island of giant dunes. Watch the sun set while becalmed 15km from the nearest land …and have a bath in a rain flooded…
By James BennettPhotos Adrian Dyson and David Gervas. Sunday 26 April dawned bright and breezy, in a similar manner to the previous three days when strong easterly winds had blown each morning, fortunately the wind gods decided to moderate Sundays wind to a more sociable but gusty 8 to 17 knots from the ENE. The…
Visiting Albany at Easter this year were: Gryphon with Chris and Jean, Araluen with Paul and Tracy, the nameless Vivier Jewell with Tony and Penny, Whimbrel with myself, and Peter and Helen Edmonds. Our contact at Albany was Lawrence Cuthbert from the Albany Maritime Foundation who looked after us superbly. We arrived at the Princess…
BY James Bennett. Six boats their owners and crew met at Port Bouvard Yacht Club on Saturday 29 November for a 10am departure, with the plan to sail down the inlet to Herron Point camp site. This was a similar format to last year’s outing The forecast for the weekend had changed throughout the week…
Chris RobinsonPresident OGA of WA Prior to the General Meeting on 25th November 2014, the OGA paid a visit to the Duyfken replica at the invitation of John Longley, Chair of the Duyfken Foundation and OGA member. John described the Duyfken and its construction to the OGA visitors. Photographs illustrating the ship were taken by…
The 5th Swan River Retro Yacht Series 2013-2014 by Manfred Speicher The Retro Yacht sailing series – sailed out of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in its fifth year; celebrated the 2013/14 season on a dedicated note of participation with a strong fleet of twenty one of West Australia’s finest classic yachts and a contagiously…
By Peter Kovesi. “I’m going to Rotto on Saturday, just for the day, with Mike. Do you want to come too?” Whoa! We had talked about going to Rottnest so many times. We would always end up saying “Yes, but you would need to pick your day…”and ‘that day’ was always off somewhere in the…
By Pauline Dilley OGA Secretary. I have been reminded that in our daily lives we are rarely really tested, but when you are on a small sailboat in a stiff breeze, way beyond the 15 rule, when things are beginning to fail or break, when you are getting wet and cold, when you can’t switch…
Manfred Speicher – Bacchante – RF 1939 “…. and they came again: For the 5th year running of the SWAN RIVER RETRO YACHT SERIES 2013-2014 season. 14 of WA’s finest vintage Gaff & Bermuda rigged assembled at the Swan Mid River start. ‘Hughie winked with a zephyr’ at first and then blew the fleet into…