Australia Yacht Club Inc. in North Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Australia Yacht Club Inc.

Locality: North Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

Phone: +61 413 057 559

Address: PO Box 31 6159 North Fremantle, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.australiayc.com.au

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23.01.2022 First Entry for 2014 race confirmed. Dr Gavin LeSueur is the first to enter the 2014 race. He will race his Australian designed and built by Crowther 50' offshore racing catamaran 'eDoc.net'. The boat is designed to race around Australia. Kevlar /Foam construction. Bows for Southern ocean surfing and solid rig for hammering to windward. Record holder Hong Kong to Manila race. Gavin's planning is already underway and is impressive. He plans to win! [email protected]

22.01.2022 'Spirit of Fremantle' race entry 'citizen crew' applications are flowing in. We're receiving an equal number of male applications as female applications which is great. Here is why one applicant wants to be a part of this great adventure. "Always wanted to develop my sailing skills. What a fantastic opportunity this would be, I have sailed enough to realize that its tough, demanding and often frightening but the rewards of the challenge are life changing!! I love the idea of working as part of a team to achieve a outcome, and sharing that experience and sense of adventure. I'm a very proud Australian, and love living in Fremantle, circumnavigating the country I love and representing Fremantle would be such a thrill". Great stuff! Crew applications can be made at www.ayc.net.au/Fremantle

22.01.2022 Getting into the Spirit! In collaboration with the City of Fremantle and the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce we’re working on a project to get an entry in the race under the banner ‘Spirit Of Fremantle’. Better still we’re offering Fremantle citizens the opportunity to apply, train, qualify and be selected to join the crew of the boat for all or some legs of the race. A life-changing experience for a number of people. The same opportunity is being promoted to other ports around Australia. For information contact [email protected]. To express interest to be a member of the crew go to www.ayc.net.au/Fremantle

21.01.2022 Provisional Notice Of Race is now available. Please let us know if you would like us to email you our Provisional Notice of Race. We are receiving many enquiries about the race from within Australia and from abroad. Indicators are that we may have some seriously big boats entering the race. Great if we can attract some of the exciting French multihulls!

20.01.2022 Ocean Race Around Australia 38 weeks to start There are just 38 weeks until the

19.01.2022 ‘Spirit Of Fremantle’ race entry. We have applications from people keen to be selected

19.01.2022 Australia’s only known pirate, ‘Black Jack Anderson’. ‘Black Jack Anderson’ was a massive African-American who came to Australia as his countrymen and Europeans hunted for seals and whales in the bountiful Southern Ocean. He later turned his talents to piracy. He was notorious in his lifetime for raiding passing ships off the islands and waters off Western Australia’s ‘Recherche Archipelago’ in the early 1800s. The Recherche Archipelago consists of 105 islands and 1,200 ‘obstacles to shipping’ and is located off the beautiful coastal town of Esperance located in the Gold Fields District of Western Australia. Esperance is one of the many regional towns of Australia that will play an important role in the ‘Ocean Race Around Australia’. The scene below is looking from Hellfire Bay.

18.01.2022 ‘Yachtsman are experts in self inflicting adventure’,* For those that participated in the 1988 bi-centenary race around Australia the coming of the 2014 ‘Ocean Race Around Australia’ is something of a long awaited justification and continuation of a life changing adventure. We pay homage to those that competed in that event. Their pioneering efforts will not be forgotten. Dr Gavin LeSuer’s book on that race ‘The Line Not just A Boat Race’ is a must read for those preparing ...to participate in the 2014 race. That Gavin is so dedicated to racing around again is tribute to the magnitude of this adventure. The late Sir Peter Blake with crewman Mike Quilter won the 1988 race in the trimaran ‘Steinlager 1’. It would be fitting that the pioneers of the first race around Australia are suitably recognized in the 2014 race. Suggestions welcomed. * Quote from ‘The Line Not Just A Boat Race'. See more

12.01.2022 Unbridled Passion for Music, the Sea and all things Fremantle. We’re delighted to have Elicia Petite and her Pirate 88 crew working with us to help make our ‘Spirit of Fremantle’ race entry and ‘citizen crew’ participation project a great success. We’ve discussed with Elicia our desire to engage with the super talented music and songwriter community in Fremantle and plans for our WA coast stopover festivities in Dampier, Fremantle and Esperance. Exciting ideas are emerging. Pirate 88 are helping us to get the ‘citizen crew’ opportunity before the people of Fremantle. Thanks Elicia. Check out Pirate Freo at 88FM at www.pirate88.com

10.01.2022 Ocean Events Pty Ltd headed up by Bob Williams and Southern Ocean sailing, owned and operated by Mark McRea from Albany in Western Australia, have joined forces to form Indian Ocean Expeditions which will offer sailing expeditions out of Albany. The Australia Yacht Club is on board as the not-for-profit component of the venture. We're delighted to be involved with Albany again as it makes the perfect base for the expeditions that are in the making.

06.01.2022 This Is A Big Race. Is There An All-Female Crew Out There? To put the ‘Ocean Race Around Australia’ (ORAA) into some perspective if you take the following great races, Sydney to Hobart, Fastnet, Bermuda, Transpac, Fremantle to Bali, Auckland to Fiji, Hong Kong to Vietnam and add them together you come up with the distance of the ORAA. We know the feeling when a skipper says to his crew we’re going to do the Hobart. The energy runs high and the mind starts planning straig...ht away. When a skipper says, we’re in for the ‘Ocean Race Around Australia, the mind goes into overdrive! There’s no other, open entry, fully crewed, race in the world as big as this one. It’s planned to take place every two years, 2014, 2016, 2018, and long into the future. We’re hoping we will attract an all-female crew, from Australia and/or from overseas, monohull and/or multihull. It’s a long time since an all-female crew has competed in a race of this magnitude. It should be a magnet for a boat sponsor. Remember crew changes at all stop-over ports is permissible. We’ve only one objective make it the best race in the world! [email protected]

06.01.2022 Some things need to be preserved! From 1953 to 1978 there existed the 'Melbourne to Sydney Yacht Race'. The race was won by some of the finest of Australia's yachtsmen, Sir Arthur Warner, Jock Sturrock and Lou Abrahams to name a few. The original perpetual trophy was recently discovered and restored and is now in the care of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV). The 'Ocean Race Around Australia' has a race leg Melbourne to Sydney which is an opportunity to reinstate this historic race. The ORCV has kindly agreed that the original trophy can be the perpetual trophy for this leg of the race. We are happy that we are part of preserving this important part of Australia's offshore yacht racing history.

04.01.2022 The following press release has been sent around the world. August 7, 2013 Ocean Race Around Australia race to go ahead in 2014... On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the 1988 Bi-Centenary Around Australia Race (08/08/1988), Ocean Events is pleased to announce that the inaugural ‘Ocean Race Around Australia’ will go ahead in 2014. Ocean Events invites mono and multihull boats from Australia and around the world to join the inaugural ‘Ocean Race Around Australia’. The unique format for this ISAF Category 1 event includes four start/finish ports, making it easier for competitors entering what is expected to be the largest open-entry, fully crewed coastal ocean race in the world. Competitors have the choice of the following start ports and times: Fremantle, Western Australia - start early July, finish early October Port Lincoln, South Australia - start mid-July, finish mid-October Melbourne, Victoria - start, third week of July, finish late October Sydney, NSW - start end of July, finish early November The race, which will permit crew changes at its 10 stopover ports and is expected to take approximately 90 days, will also incorporate an existing east coast race and regattas in the Whitsunday Islands. And major prizes and trophies will be awarded in both monohull and multihull divisions. Champion New Zealand sailor, the late Sir Peter Blake, won the challenging 90 day 1988 race, which was a resounding success for the event and sponsors. With new technology and the advent of social media, not available in 1988, this race will have GPS, yacht tracking, mobile phones, the web, on-board cameras, all of which will help with media coverage and make the event a very attractive proposition for sponsors. However, some things won’t change; the wind, waves, whale sightings and the challenge. To enter, and for further information on the Ocean Race Around Australia , please contact Bob Williams, email: [email protected], or telephone +61 (0) 413057559. View video at: http://youtu.be/1k2Oml5-IDM All information: www.sailaroundaustralia.com.au or www.facebook.com/AustraliaYachtClub By ORAA media One stopover port on the Western Australia coastline, Dampier, will turn on an Australian-outback-experience for the sailors, friends, sponsors and attending media. This area of Australia is the home to Australia’s major mining and natural gas export facilities and some of the most ancient aboriginal rock-art in the world spread across the Dampier Archipelago. Ocean Events is planning a ‘West Coast Media Tour’ along the entire Western Australia coastline to coincide with the race. National and international journalists and filmmakers will be taken on a 30-day coach excursion visiting places unique in the world. Contact for event owner/promoter: Robert Williams Chairman Ocean Events Pty Ltd (ABN 83097516044) PO Box 31 North Fremantle, Western Australia, 6159 +61 (0) 413057559 [email protected]

04.01.2022 The women are back? The next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race will see an all female crew return after a break of 10 years. We would love to see at least one and hopefully more all female crews in the 2014 Ocean Race Around Australia.... I fact we would love to see an all female crew from Australia race against an all female crew from New Zealand and from other countries. Nothing is impossible. For enquiries please contact [email protected] See more

04.01.2022 Dampier, Western Australia. A race stopover port with a difference! Where does the world's oldest rock art with millions of them and tens of thousands of years old exist adjacent to one of the world's biggest iron ore ports? Dampier in Western Australia. This is a remarkably beautiful part of the Australia coastline. The Hampton Harbour Boat & Sailing Club will be our hosts for the race stopover in Dampier. Stand by for some great 'outback Australia' hospitality and an experience you won't forget.

04.01.2022 Ocean Race Around Australia West Coast rivalry on the cards Rivalry for the upcoming Ocean http://wp.me/s3RQdB-614

02.01.2022 We’re pleased to see BoatPoint.com.au are running our news letters on their web site as a

01.01.2022 The following is a robust conversation on the inclusion of Tasmania (or lack of) in the ‘Ocean Race Around Australia’ that we would like to share. We thank Scott Gilbert, a very experienced yachtsman, for agreeing to us publishing the following conversation. Dear Sir, It is with great disappointment that I see you are referring to this race as "Around Australia". It is beyond understanding how you can call it this when the course does not include Tasmania. Could it be that ...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Interest is developing rapidly in the 2014 race. A multihull entry was confirmed within the first week. Entries pending confirmation are in for a dual handed monohull from Western Australia, a big multihull from Asia and a multihull from Queensland. This is pleasing so early after the 2014 start date was announced. Much is happening behind the scenes in firming up stopover port arrangements and discussions with international sports agencies re media rights for areas outside ...of Australia. Albany or Esperance on the south coast of Western Australia as stopover port or emergency stopover port will provide a fantastic experience for all involved in the Race. Here is a scene looking out across King George Sound in Albany with the bust of French explorer Captain Buadin who led the ‘Expedition to Terra Australia in 1800-1804 responsible for naming many places on the Western Australia coastline and one of the many splendid beaches of Esperance. See more