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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 international racing in big boats, but his first season as an 18s skipper has been affected by bad luck.

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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 January 17 to complete the championship. Despite the need to re-schedule, due to weather conditions and...

Two of reasons for the incredible 128-year success of 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour are the competitors' attitude towards the sport and the clubs which have conducted the racing, together with the ability to uphold the tradition of producing the most spectacular racing for supporters. From the early 1970s, sponsorship also became just as critical to the future of the class as a high-performance racing sport. By the early-1990s, the escalating costs had put so much pressure on individuals wanting to get into the class that the Australian 18 Footers League made a decision to introduce rul...

Lazarus Capital Partners, the latest sponsor to join the strong Australian 18 Footers League's fleet, has linked up with one of the new, young teams setting out on their challenge to become one of the best on Sydney Harbour. The new team, the youngest in the fleet, is 20-year-old Lachlan Steel (skipper), 22-year-old Jerome Watts, on the sheet, and 20-year-old Matt Doyle in the bow. Their journey together began in November, during the Spring Championship, when the three crew first carried the company logo on the skiff's sails. Lachlan, Jerome and Matt have sailed the past three seasons togethe...