Boats in a box

A week ago the Clubs Junior sailors were being given a tour of SH Scallywag 100 as she was prepared for racing in the Maxi boat championship.

This week our sailors were preparing their own boats, wrapping and packing and then strapping them in a 40ft shipping container ready to be sent North to Airlie Beach where Whitsunday Sailing Club will be hosting the 62nd Australian Sabot Championship and Eddie Gray Sabot Week from the 27th December to 3rd January.

The Championship and Sabot Week will be sailed on the waters of Pioneer Bay in the Whitsundays which in 2032 will be hosting Olympic Sailing events.

Ten Drummoyne boats plus other SNSW boats from Lane Cove, Greenwich and Vaucluse along with the DSC7 and DSC6 support boats were loaded on Sunday morning.

Strategic parking of cars and trailers made sure a pathway was clear for the truck to arrive at 4am to drop off the container and then collect Monday morning. The container will head North firstly by train to Rockhampton and then by truck to Airlie Beach. A big thank you to Mark Oliver for coordinating the shipping logistics and car park chess game.

Sailors representing the club are

Sabot-1 up ATOMIC 7134 Archer Sacre SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up BACK IN ACTION 7046 Talia Golovsky SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up COSMIC 7153 Petros Calokerinos SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up FAST N FURIOUS 1559 Luella Liebenberg SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up KEKIPI 7043 Tristan Davies SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up LUIGI 7021 Theodore Andersen SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up ON FIRE 2599 Alessandra Oliver SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up SLIPPERY LITTLE SUCKER 7004 Sophie Oliver SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up SONIC BOOM 1359 Maya Vesentini SNSW DSC

Sabot-1 up SPEED DEMON 7114 Mary Lou Doolan SNSW DSC

Check out the Championship website for full details and results here