Adventures Weekly – 8 May 2020 with a focus and behind-the-scenes look at our #KeepingYouCovered campaign, covering #EveryManWomanAndBoat from start to finish in the Rolex Sydney Hobart!
Great to have the “Beneteau Whisperer” Nev Sail, Ronald A Simpson “Droney”, Renee Smith from Making Waves Foundation (SWD), and the awesome Steven Shield along with regular hosts Nic…
Adventures Weekly – 1 May 2020 with a focus on theUnited States SailGP Teamaired in the US at 2000 ET and in Australia at 1000 AEST.We were joined by Kimo Worthington (exceptional sailor himself; America’s Cup and Whitbread Winner) General Manager of the team, Peter Kinney (2016 Melges 32 World Champ) grinder, and Hans Henken (49er, scientist) grinder, to chat about…
Adventures Weekly: Sail Port Stephens special
24 April 2020
Adventures Weekly – 24 April 2020 with a focus onSail Port Stephensthanks toPantaenius Yacht Insurance, where we would all rather be right now!Lots of guests including PRO Denis Thompson (in case the Aussies are missing his voice over the radio),Stacey JacksonfromNautiBags, and Scott McRae fromSons Of Beacheswho played a special tune for…
Adventures Weekly - 17 April 2020
17 April 2020
A Big Pledge alongside big goals
Adventures Weekly – 17 April 2020 with Hannah Mills Sailing; Gold and Silver medallist, multiple and current World Champ in the 470 who is headed to Tokyo 2020 with the British Sailing Team, the founder of the Big Plastic Pledge, AND judge for our Pantaenius Yacht Insurance “Video of the Week”!
Adventures Weekly - 10 April 2020
10 April 2020
Nic Douglass caught up withDavid TurtonfromThe Seabin Project, to chat about saving the world one bin at a time, theBrisbane to Gladstone Yacht Racewhich would have started on Good Friday, the Mooloolaba Australasian Etchells Championship (David Turton is the defending champion), AND to decide on thePantaenius Yacht Insurance“Video of the…
Adventures Weekly - 3 April 2020
3 April 2020
Nic Douglass welcomed Jesús Renedo from Sailing Energy as the special guest direct from Palma, Mallorca in Spain – one of the hardest countries hit from Covid-19. The Sailor Girl and Jesús spoke about Trofeo Princesa Sofía Iberostar (which would have been this week), the current state of play in Spain, Jesús’ images, and went through the entrants and chose the the winners for the…
Adventures Weekly - 27 March 2020
27 March 2020
Sailing News in 60 Secondsish is back – with the Bad, the Sad and the Good!
The Bad were a list of cancellations that Nic couldn’t finish, the Sad was a tribute to John Fisher, or Fish, two years to the day of his passing.
The Good, was Sailor Girl’s new “videos of the week” segment – including training inventions while in lockdown, and innovative…
Sail Paradise 2020
1 January 2020
Day One: Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta kicks off from Southport Yacht Club
To kick off the new decade, the 11thBartercard Sail Paradise Regatta got underway today under a sunny sky in a building nor’easterly breeze with a fleet of 33 yachts.
The Race Officer, Southport Yacht Club’s own Mark Dingley opted to start the boats off on a Course 12, the Q1 extended course.
Taking…
#KeepingYouCovered
21 December 2019
64 videos in total, a three-hour pre-start live show talking with over 35 boats through the fleet, start commentary for ABC Grandstand, a world first with live offshore drone coverage of the middle to smaller sized yachts off the coast of Sydney, over 15 hours of live coverage including finishes with over 50 yachts right throughout the fleet in Hobart… This was the core of the “Keeping…
Smoke on the water
10 December 2019
For the first time in the 26-year-history of the Big Boat Challenge, the race has been abandoned due to safety concerns following the settling of thick smoke from the Australian bushfires over the Sydney basin and a serious lack of visibility.
“It was really suggested to us from harbour control that perhaps we shouldn’t be racing” said Race Officer, Denis Thompson.
“The smoke…
