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…
By James Bennett Bay Raider 20 “Kailani” I had a very rushed morning due to various minor family emergencies. Constantin Lindner (a young German shipwright visiting Australia on a work visa) my crew was getting a bit concerned and texted me as I ran in to the Royal Fresh Water Bay Yacht Club grounds . After…
BY: Owen Stacy The gaff-rigged sloop Canobie was first launched in Hobart on 1 November 1912. An article was published in The Mercury on that day, to celebrate the event. Her original design came from the American stable of William Hand Jr, USA, published in the “Rudder” in February 1900. The design was modified by…
by Chris Robinson Matilda Bay to Canning River. Five boats turned out for Day 2 of the Swan River Raid and lined up in bright sunshine on the Matildas Bay foreshore along with some admiring onlookers. Those starting were: Jim Black – Wee Birlinn Wally Cook – Karina Tony O’Connor – Weedy Seadragon Paul Ricketts…
by James Bennett Matilda Bay to Maylands Yacht Club Six boats were smartly lined up on the foreshore in front of the Matilda Bay restaurant at 9am on Saturday morning drawing appreciative looks and comments from passers-by. Taking part were, Jim Black; WEE BIRLINN John Horley; MATILDA BAY; Special Effort Prize Tony O’Connor, Tony; WEEDY…
by Jim Black The real benefits of email: on Friday afternoon the C Fleet group receive an email from Tony O’Connor (Weedy Seadragon) advising that Sunday (21 October) looks great for a sail and that he plans to launch at Rockingham at about 1030. A couple of emails later and there are four boats rigging…
By Jim Black. Retro Series Race1Sunday 14 October at 10:00 precisely the starting gun fired over Melville Water for the first of the 2012/2013 Swan River Retro Yacht Series races run by Royal Perth Yacht Club. For the C Fleet entries this was the culmination of a couple of weeks fairly intensive emailing to notify…
By Colin Aburrow Sunday August 19 at 10.00 hrs saw a group of Gaffers hanging around the Western most car park at Fremantle wharf opposite the entrance to the “A” shed. The event was the invitation from Bill Leonard to view the museum’s collection of historically significant boats that are not on public display. It…