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We were staying at a hotel a short walk away. This is a private club but you can access for dinner if you don’t live within 5km I believe. The staff graciously welcomed us and we had a great dinner.
LaurieL897
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We read some recent reviews and were a little wary but it had been a while since we had last been here, and it was very good then, so we decided to give it another go. Saturday lunch. Our order was taken not long after...More
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My wife and me were there after taking the ferry and spend a very nice afternoon at the club/reataurang where you can sit either outside or inside the club. The Place i surely a Place for people to socialize and have a good time. Since...More
cairns2015
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We always love coming home to this view. The meals are substantial and staff are pleasant and always remember us.
Anne J
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This isn't a big club but it is big on service and food. The menu is varied enough for most tastes and the chef is happy to cater to small changes. The location is fantastic with water and marina views as well as a great...More
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NSW CHAMPIONSHIP, RACE 3 SUNDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2019 SYDNEY HARBOUR
18ft Skiffs
NSW Championship, Race 3
Sunday, 8 December 2019
Sydney Harbour
After two outstanding wins in the first two races of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship, Winning Group went into today’s Race 4 on Sydney Harbour as a hot favourite to extend her lead in the championship and didn’t disappoint her supporters when the team brought the skiff home a clear winner in the 15-knot ENE breeze.
Winning Group continued her outstanding performances in the championship when John Winning Jr, Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton cleared out from the rest of the fleet over the final lap of the three-lap Easterly course to win by 2m1s from Yandoo, sailed by John Winning, Matt Coutts and Mike Kennedy.
The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines (Aron Everett, Courtney Mahar and Charlie Gundy) gave another strong performance to finish 1m10s behind Yandoo, in third place.
Following another slow start, appliancesonline.com.au (Brett Van Munster) again finished strongly to take fourth place, ahead of Smeg (Micah Lane), Shaw and Partners Financial Services (James Dorron) and Rag & Famish Hotel (Bryce Edwards).
Winning Group now leads the championship pointscore table with a perfect score of three points, followed by Shaw and Partners Financial Services of 10, The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines and appliancesonline.com.au on 12, Rag & Famish Hotel on 18. Yandoo and Smeg are then equal next on 20 points.
While John (Herman) Winning Jr’s Winning Group team led shortly after the start, it was his father’s Yandoo team which won the day on the windward leg from the start to the windward mark in Rose Bay, where Yandoo led by 25s from Smeg, The Oak, The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone (Jordan Girdis), Noakes Blue (Yvette Heritage), Winning Group, tech2 (Jack Macartney) and appliancesonline.com.au.
Once the fleet cleared the wing mark off Clark Island the teams had a battle on the ‘tight’ run to Kurraba Point, where Yandoo still held the lead.
Appliancesonline elected to use just a main and jib on the run and moved up from eighth to third as the fleet set off for the long windward leg back to the Rose Bay mark.
The split in the thinking of the fleet now became critical as the smaller rigs on Yandoo and Winning Group dominated the leg. Yandoo was still in front, only by 5s from Winning Group, but the pair had stretched the margin over the rest of the fleet. Smeg was in third place, but now trailed the leaders by 40s.
From that point the race became a battle of father and son as the two teams fought for the lead.
Over the final lap of the course, the experienced Winning Group proved too strong and led by the winning margin as she headed for home on the short spinnaker run between Shark and Clark Islands.
Today’s result sheet and images from the race are attached.
Next week the Australian 18 Footers League will conduct races on Friday evening as well as Race 4 of the NSW Championship next Sunday.
There will be a spectator ferry following both events and AeroMedia Live Broadcast team will be there on each day to catch all the live action.
Friday’s Supercup (three short-course races) will start at 5pm, with the spectator ferry leaving at 4.15pm. Sunday’s Race 4 of the NSW Championship will start at 2.45pm with the spectator ferry leaving Double Bay Public Wharf at 2pm.
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WINNING GROUP SETTING THE STANDARD
The Winning Group 18ft Skiff team has set the standard with its domination of the first two races of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship, presently being sailed on Sydney Harbour, and has brought into focus the possibility of her skipper John Winning Jr. and his father John ‘Woody’ Winning becoming the first father-and-son JJ Giltinan (world) Championship-winning skippers in the 81-year history of the prestigious championship.
John ‘Woody’ Winning had been runner-up twice to the legendry Iain Murray, Color 7, in the late 1970s before finally taking the prestigious Giltinan (world) title with AMP Centrepoint in 2000.
John Winning Jr. (aka ‘Herman’) won the 2002 World 29er Championship with Euan McNicol, when the pair defeated another ‘gun’ team of Nathan Outteridge and Grant Rose on Sydney Harbour.
‘Herman’ joined the 18ft Skiff ranks in 2008 when he skippered a new skiff, sponsored by appliancesonline.com.au, an online company he formed as part of his family’s business, and with his team of Dave Ewings and Tim Austin, finished fourth in a 32-strong fleet of teams from New Zealand, USA, UK and Canada.
Under the pressures of business, when John Jr. stepped up to become CEO of the 113-year-old family business, which has grown to become the ‘Winning Group’ with around 1,000 employees, he retired from regular 18ft Skiff Racing.
He came back into the 18s to compete in the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2018-2019 Season and the 2019 JJ Giltinan (world) Championship, but the team’s outlook seems far more determined in 2019-2020.
With seven-times JJ Giltinan Championship-winning skipper Seve Jarvin on the sheet and six-times JJ-winning bowman and Team Oracle America’s Cup winner, Sam Newton on board, Winning Group is looking like an early favourite to tackle the dominance the Kiwis have had at the JJs for the past two years.
Ironically, ‘Herman’ will be contesting the 2020 JJs against his father and against the skiff sponsored by the company he formed, appliancesonline.com.au, which will be skippered by the class boat builder Brett Van Munster.
Defending NSW champion James Dorron and his team of Harry Bethwaite and Tim Westwood had a slow start to the season but have shown a big improvement over the past two weeks to be runner-up in both races in their Shaw and Partners Financial Services-sponsored skiff.
After the first two races of the five-race NSW Championship, Winning Group leads the 18-boat fleet with a perfect score of 2, followed by Shaw and Partners Financial Services on 4, appliancesonline.com.au on 8, The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines (Aron Everett) on 9, Rag & Famish Hotel (Bryce Edwards) on 11, Smeg (Micah Lane) 15, Yandoo (John Winning) 18, Noakes Blue (Yvette Heritage) 18, The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone 18.
Race 3 of the NSW Championship will be sailed from the Australian 18 Footers League on Sunday.
Spectators can see all the teams while they are rigging, then follow the racing on board the club’s spectator ferry, which leaves Double Bay Wharf, alongside the rigging area, at 2pm.
Book online through the club’s website www.18footers.com
The AeroMedia Live Broadcast team will also be out on Sydney Harbour to capture all the action for those who can’t make it onto the water.
The livestreaming is available by going to www.18footers.com and clicking on the ’18 Footers TV’ link.
As well as watching the livestreaming coverage, you can also follow all the club’s racing throughout the entire 2019-2020 Racing Season:
Club Website www.18footers.com
Twitter @18skiff
Instagram @18skiff
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NSW CHAMPIONSHIP, RACE 2 SUNDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2019 SYDNEY HARBOUR
The Winning Group team of John Winning Jr., Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton gave a brilliant exhibition to dominate the fleet and take out Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today.
After leading narrowly over the first lap of the course, Winning Group raced away over the second windward leg from Clark Island to the Beashel Buoy to defeat Shaw and Partners Financial Services (James Dorron, Harry Bethwaite, Tim Westwood) by 2m59s.
Spring Championship winner appliancesonline.com.au (Brett Van Munster, Phil Marshall, Kurt Fatouris) was just another 2s behind Shaw and Partners, in third place.
Rag & Famish Hotel (Michael Coxon) finished in fourth place ahead of the new Tech2 skiff (Jack Macartney) which was having her first race today.
Incredibly, the next four teams The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines (Aron Everett), The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone (Jordan Girdis), Yandoo (John Winning) and Smeg (Micah Lane) were all separated by just 3s. with one sec. separating each skiff.
After taking a 10s. lead from Shaw and Partners Financial Service and The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines at the first windward mark, Winning Group led for the entire North-East course, although Shaw and Partners was only one boat-length behind Winning Group at the bottom mark on the first lap of 3-laps.
At that point in the race, it looked as though it would develop into a great match race between the two champion teams, but the long second windward leg was devastating as the Winning Group team opened up a race-winning 2mins lead.
The race for minor placings was far closer and produced some dramatic finishes.
Appliancesonline had recovered from a seventh placing at the first windward mark to cross Shaw and Partners only 400 metres from the finish, but the defending champion team came back to cross the line 2s ahead of Appliancesonline.
A similar thing happened only 50 metres from the finish when Smeg sailed across the bow of The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines, only to have The Oak come back and beat Smeg home by 2s.
After a slow start to the season, The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone team showed better pace and the Tech2 skiff is certain to be much better following an impressive 5th place after getting a slow start off the line.
Points standings after the two races so far are Winning Group on 2, Shaw and Partners Financial Services on 4, appliancesonline.com.au on 8, The oak Double Bay-4 Pines 9, Rag & Famish Hotel on 11, and Smeg on 15.
Today’s result sheet and images from the race are attached.
The Australian 18 Footer League’s 2019-2020 Season continues next Sunday when the club will stage Race 3 of the NSW Championship.
Spectators can see all the teams while they are rigging, then follow the racing on board the club’s spectator ferry, which leaves Double Bay Wharf, alongside the rigging area, each race day at 2pm.
Book online through the club’s website www.18footers.com
The AeroMedia Live Broadcast team will also be out on Sydney Harbour to capture all the action for those who can’t make it onto the water. The livestreaming is available by going to www.18footers.com and clicking on the ’18 Footers TV’ link.
As well as watching the livestreaming coverage, you can also follow all the club’s racing throughout the entire 2019-2020 Racing Season:
Club Website www.18footers.com
Twitter @18skiff
Instagram @18skiff
Facebook International 18Ft Skiff
