march, 2024
Boat Type
All
Catamaran
Monohull
On-water Course
All
Brisbane to Gladstone Race
Catamaran – Coastal Passage
Monohull – Coastal Passage
RYA Coastal Skipper
RYA Coastal Skipper – Monohull
RYA Competent Crew
RYA Competent Crew – Catamaran
RYA Competent Crew – Monohull
RYA Day Skipper
RYA Start Yachting
RYA Start Yachting Cat
Theory
All
RYA Coastal Skipper Theory
RYA Day Skipper Theory
Day Course
All
First Aid & Marine Medicine
RYA Diesel
RYA Power Boat Level 2
Sea Safety Survival Course
Length of Course
All
5-Day Course
6-Day Course
Weekend
Event Location
All
Coral Sea Marina
Keppel Bay Marina to Newport Marina
Mooloolaba Marina
Newport Marina
Newport Marina to Keppel Bay
Sunshine Sailing Australia HQ
Whitsundays
Training Weekend
23-24 March 2024
The program is designed to take novices on an Australian Classic Yacht race!
Two days of training which will cover the essentials of sailing plus spinnaker work, how to hoist, fly, gybe, drop and pack spinnakers.
- How to prepare the yacht for spinnakers
- Learn how to control the sheets and braces
- Learn how to control the tack line
- How to rig the spinnaker
- How to hoist the spinnaker
- How to gybe the spinnaker
- How to drop the spinnaker
- Understand the spinnaker boom and correct setting
- Control the spinnaker boom up haul and downhaul
Also helming techniques, race start, race rules and race prep.
Race Weekend
29 March to 31 March 2024
You become a crew member!
As one of Queensland’s premier blue water classics, at 308 nautical miles of ocean sailing the Brisbane to Gladstone is very achievable. This offers a great blend of old and new. The course and steady trade wind breezes provide fantastic sailing for the latest high-tech mono-hull sleds and the super fast offshore catamarans, yet there is a unique history associated with this internationally famed classic.