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The annual Queen of the Harbour (originally known as the 'Queen of the Waves') is one of the most important events to the Australian 18 Footers League and has a history almost as long as the League itself. Next Sunday's 2021 event will be a resumption of the annual race, which had to be cancelled last year with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and will feature an 18-boat fleet with a female member in each team. The League was formed in 1935 and by 1936 had inaugurated a competition to raise funds for the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Camperdown. To achieve their goal, a decisio...

The tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake added another title to their already impressive 2020-2021 list of championship victories when it took out the Australian 18 Footers League's Club Championship series, which concluded on Sydney Harbour today. tech2 had won the NSW Championship earlier in the season, then last Sunday retained the Australian Championship after a wonderful battle with the Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Trent Barnabas. In the Club Championship, which has been sailed over 15 races during the season, tech2's consistently good performances ...

18ft Skiffs: Rookie team takes on the big guns by Frank Quealey 17 Feb 06:01 GMT 17 February 2021 The recent performances by the rookie Shaw and Partners Financial Services 18ft Skiff team may have come as a surprise to many casual observers but it is no surprise to those who know the individual members' sailing records and the obstacles the team has had to overcome earlier in their rookie season together in the 18s. Over the past four weeks, skipper Jim Colley, sheet hand Shaun Connor and bow man Harry Bethwaite have put together a series of top placings which has the team cu...

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 Cunich's Vintec, it created some very interesting competition within the Australian 18 Footers League's 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 respectively. 'Woody' is the 2000 JJ Giltinan, Australian and NSW champion when he skippered AMP Centre...

2018-2019 Season coverage © Frank Quealey Back in the early 2000s John and Kerrie Winning, along with the late Bob 'Killo' Killick, had a vision of presenting 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour to the world. The original trio put the time and funding into making the dream a reality and the fruits of their efforts are now being enjoyed around the world in a way they could never have imagined at the time. For many years, 'Killo' (a former top 18ft Skiff skipper) was a one-man-band on the water. He drove the specially designed catamaran camera boat, organised a cameraman to film th...