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December 10, 2025
49er/49er FX Nationals Report

Kris Bilston and I attended the 49er/49erFX Nationals on Lake Macquarie and Sail Melbourne out of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club in Brighton. There are limited 49er regattas in […]

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December 09, 2025
2026 Finn World Sailing Championships announce Porsche Centre Brisbane as major event partner

Porsche Centre Brisbane Dealer Principal David Crosdale and Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron (RQYS) Commodore Curtis Skinner today proudly announce their major partnership with the International Finn Association of Australia (IFAA), […]

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December 05, 2024
Coach’s Corner: Team RQ doing the Squadron proud at Sail Melbourne!

Team RQ doing the Squadron proud at Sail Melbourne! Sailing Academy update from our Head Coach, Adrian Finglas Amazing to see Team RQ doing the Squadron proud at Sail Melbourne […]

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Wednesday Afternoon GO Sailing
December 05, 2024
WAGS Report – 4 December 2024 – ‘A beautiful day for testing!’

WIND:NE-8-18 Knots COURSE: 26 Bravo TIDE: L@13:14-0.78M NUMBER OF BOATS: 43   A beautiful day for testing! Before I tell of the afternoons events, I would just like to thank […]

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Wednesday Afternoon GO Sailing
November 28, 2024
WAGS Report – 27 November 2024 – ‘Great Sail, Great Day!’

WIND:NE-8-18 Knots COURSE: 26 Bravo TIDE: L@13:14-0.78M NUMBER OF BOATS: 43   Great Sail, Great Day! With near perfect conditions, a little different from the previous weeks, a large fleet […]

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November 27, 2024
Summer Results for RQYS teams are looking strong!

Summer Results for RQYS teams are looking strong! Sailing Academy update from our Head Coach, Adrian Finglas Summer is nearly upon us and for Junior and Youth Sailors that means […]

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Etchells Sailing Class at RQYS
November 27, 2024
Etchells Race Report: Saturday, 23 November: As I saw It (& remembered It)

Saturday, 23 November 2024 As I Saw It (and remembered it!) Saturday dawned sunny and warm after a very soggy week. Again, numbers were light with only 4 boats racing. […]

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Wednesday Afternoon GO Sailing
November 21, 2024
WAGS Report – 20 November 2024 – ‘Goggs takes out the Ross Jullyan Memorial Trophy!’

WIND: SE-10-20 KNOTS COURSE: 21A TIDE: H@12:44-2.35M NUMBER OF BOATS: 20   Goggs takes out the Ross Jullyan Memorial Trophy! It was a pity that rain hung around for the […]

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November 14, 2024
Micah Projects Christmas Hamper Appeal

Micah Projects Christmas Hamper Appeal   This Christmas Season, we are happy to be supporting Gumdale State School in it’s Christmas Hamper Appeal. Gumdale State School is collecting on behalf […]

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Etchells Sailing Class at RQYS
November 14, 2024
Etchells Race Report: Saturday, 9 November: As I saw It (& remembered It)

Saturday, 9 November 2024 As I Saw It (and remembered it!) We had a slight improvement in boat numbers this week with Waterloo Too hitting the water with a complete […]

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Wednesday Afternoon GO Sailing
November 14, 2024
WAGS Report – 13 November 2024 – ‘Not even the storm warning could keep stop us!’

WIND: N   5-12 knts COURSE: 25B NUMBER OF BOATS: 30   Not even the storm warning could keep stop us! With a forecast of late afternoon storms inclusive of warnings […]

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Goodwill Cup 2024 raft up
November 07, 2024
Goodwill Cup 2024 Navigation event report

The 63rd anniversary of the Goodwill Cup Navigation event was held on the 2nd and 3rd of November in moderately challenging conditions.  34 vessels combined from both clubs took part […]

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November 07, 2024
Storm Season Update

So far this week we have experienced the first two – Sunday and Wednesday evenings – ‘proper’ storms of the 2024-25 Summer, following three ‘practice run’ weather events in the […]

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Wednesday Afternoon GO Sailing
November 07, 2024
WAGS Report – 6 November 2024 – ‘An unfavourable forecast sure made for a challenging days sail!’

WIND: N-NNE-18-25 Knots COURSE: 17B TIDE:H@12:20 NUMBER OF BOATS: 28   An unfavourable forecast sure made for a challenging days sail! It wasn’t an overly brilliant forecast for our Wednesday […]

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