2025 WINNER Daniel KEMP ...
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September 2025
The David Lukins Memorial Regatta is an annual event on the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club racing calendar that sees current and former Youth Development program participants & Club Members compete in a two day match racing event.
The Regatta is held in memory of David Lukins. David was a tireless volunteer around the club, helping out in a variety of areas such as kids learn to sail, Centreboard, Youth Development mentoring, race management, & umpiring just to name a few. This resulted in David receiving one of the club’s most prestigious awards, Volunteer of the year for 1998-99.
2025 Teams:
- Team 1 – Daniel Kemp – 2025 WINNERS
- Lachie Wallace, Belle Holdsworth, Charlie Verity & Hayley Fisher
- Team 2 – Alistair Read
- Niall Powers, DÁrcy Kemp, James Farquharson & Will Holdsworth
- Team 3 – Bayley Taylor
- Josh Paulson, Sophie Aitken, Violette Russell & Matt Fisher
- Team 4 – Louis Tilly
- Walter Tuite, Will Troop, Ollie Ross, Joe Corbel
- Team 5 – Patrick Langley
- Angela Farrell, Ian McKillop & James Kidner


Regatta Information
The 2025 event will see the return of a two-day Match Racing event.
Grade 5 Open Match Racing Regatta. At the conclusion of Part One, skippers will be seeded into Part Two. Skippers ranked 1-4 are seeded into the Gold Group. Skippers 5-8 are seeded into the Silver Group.
Don’t miss out on your team competing in this exciting annual event! Enter below:
Amendments:
Results
Subject to change. Refer to the NOR & Sailing Instructions.
Saturday 13th September 2025
0800: Halyards Bistro open for breakfast.
0900-1000: Registration
1000: Daily briefing & boat draw
1130: First warning signal: Fleet Racing series
After Racing – Social gathering in the clubhouse
Sunday 14th September 2025
0800: Halyards Bistro open for breakfast
0900: Daily briefing & boat draw
1030: First attention signal: Match Racing series
1600: No further attention signal
After Racing – Presentation in Halyards Bistro
- 2024 – Racing Abandoned (Weather)
- 2023 – Tag Team Racing – Alistair Read, Antony Hawke, Annie Scholten, Georgia Tuckey & Niall Powers
- 2022 – WENDY Jnr RACING – Tom Spithill, Levi Harrison, Ian McKillop, Mark Dorling
- 2021 – Not Held
- 2020 – Not Held
- 2019 – Nick Garland, Julian Plante, Ian McKillop & Grant Pellew (Team HARKEN)
- 2018 – Tom Spithill, Amy Lee, Mark Dorling & Andy Hudson
- 2017 – Tom Spithill, Mark Dorling, Ollie Gordon & Murray Gordon
- 2016 – Tom Spithill, Mark Dorling, James Whelan, Ang Farrell
- 2015 – Will Dargaville, Liam Bennett, Harry Hall & James Farquharson
- 2014 – Murray Gordon Bill Sykes, Shane Lukins, Max Vos
- 2013 – Murray Gordon, Billy Sykes, Shane Lukins & Max Vos
- 2012 – Nina Curtis, Olivia Price, Lucinda Whitty, Andrew Coates, Evelyn Curtis & Beth Hodge
- 2011 – Jason Waterhouse, Olivia Price, Josh Mcknight, Max Voss & Peter Gregg
- 2010 – Nina Curtis
2025 Skippers
- Daniel Kemp
- Alistair Read
- Bayley Taylor
- Louis Tilly
- Patrick Langley
- Nick Elliott
- Steve Howe
- Leanne Holdsworth
- Deborah Holder
- Estelle Tilly
- John Paul
- Frank Walker
- Angus Musgrove
- Robyn Tames
- Richard Hudson
- Simon Barrington