Page 5 - Jack Macartney News Today

For more than 100 years there has been a strong family influence over the generations in the 18 Footers. Last Sunday, when Zac Barnabas sailed in the bow of Tom Cunichs Vintec, it created some very interesting competition within the Australian 18 Footers Leagues fleet at the 2020-2021 Australian Championship on Sydney Harbour. For a number of seasons, John Woody Winning and his son John Herman Winning have been locking horns at the highest level as skippers of Yandoo and Winning Group respectiv...

Championship leader tech2 on the way to winning Race 2 - Frank Quealey pic Skipper John Winning with crew Jay Harrison and Grant Pollitt (Flora Triple M) in the late 80s - pic courtesy 18 Footers Close× Family rivalry on the race track 6 February 2021 For more than 100 years there has been a strong family influence over the generations in the 18 Footers. For a number of seasons, John ‘Woody’ Winning and his son John ‘Herman’ Winning have been locking horns at the highest level over t...

18ft Skiffs: Change of fortune needed for rookie team by Frank Quealey 22 Jan 06:21 UTC As the championship end of the 2020-2021 Australian 18ft Skiff Racing Season moves toward the JJ Giltinan world Championship on Sydney Harbour in March, one team looking for a change of fortune is Birkenhead Point Marina, which is being led by rookie 18s skipper Tim Westwood. Although Tim is a rookie skipper in the 18s this season, he is definitely not new to the high-speed skiffs or high-speed inter...

Sail World - The world's largest sailing news network; sail and sailing, cruising, boating news

18ft Skiffs back on Sydney Harbour this week by Frank Quealey 7 Jan 06:26 UTC 10 January 2021 The 18ft Skiff fleet will be back on Sydney Harbour this Sunday when the Australian 18 Footers League will conduct the 4th race (Race 5) of the 2020-2021 NSW Championship. The championship was originally scheduled to finish this week with Race 5 of the series, before extreme wind conditions forced the postponement of Race 2 on November 29. The re-sail of Race 2 will now be sailed on Jan...

Winning Group wins Race 4 of NSW 18 Footers Championship 14 December 2020 The 2020-2021 NSW Championship continued to produce some of the best 18ft Skiff action seen on Sydney Harbour for several seasons when the defending champion Winning Group team of John Winning Jr., Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton hung on grimly to score a narrow win in Race 4 of the championship today.   After grabbing the lead at the start, the Winning Group led for the entire course but had to hold off a strong challenge...

With a decision still pending about the outcome of the abandoned Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship, the series is in an unusually unclear position as it goes into Race 4 on Sydney Harbour next Sunday. As a five-race championship, each team can discard its worst performance, but as a four-race series there is no provision for a discard so the decision will have an impact on the points table as many teams, including the defending champion Winning Group, currently have large discards. That...