2024 WINNER Mother Nature RACING ABANDONED
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th September 2024
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 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.
2024 Teams:
- Hugo Butterworth – Bayley Taylor, Josh Paulson, Sophie Atkins
- Daniel Kemp – Louis Tilly, Lachie Wallace, Charlie Verity, Belle Holdsworth
- Will Dargaville – Evelyn Foster, Jess Angus, Jarrah Sheppard, James Farquharson
- Ryan Wilmot – with Bob Wilmot, Nathan Wilmot, Matthew Wilmot Roelien Westerman
- Nick Garland – with David Stephens, Chris Anderson, Julian Plante, Jack Garland
- Alistair Read – D’arcy Kemp, Niall Powerless, Antony Hawke, Will Hough, Emma Rankin
- Murray Gordon – Mark Dorling, Gerrah Smith, James Warner
- Clare Costanzo – Sarah Parker
Malcom Parker, Annie Scholten, Emma Roberts
Regatta Information
The 2024 event will consist of two parts, with a combination of fleet and match racing over the weekend. The racing format will be defined in the Sailing Instructions.
Part One (Saturday) – David Lukins Qualifying Series: A series of short and exciting fleet races (up to eight races may be held). The final rankings of Skippers in the David Lukins Qualifying Series will determine the seedings for David Lukins Memorial Match Racing Regatta (Part Two).
Part Two (Sunday) – David Lukins Memorial Match Racing Regatta: 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:
Subject to change. Refer to the NOR & Sailing Instructions.
Saturday 14th September 2024
0800: Halyards Bistro open for breakfast.
0900-1000: Registration & weigh-in.
1000: Daily briefing & boat draw
1130: First warning signal: Fleet Racing series
After Racing – Social gathering in the clubhouse
Sunday 15th September 2024
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
2024 Skippers
- Hugo Butterworth
- Daniel Kemp
- Will Dargaville
- Ryan Wilmot
- Nick Garland
- Alistair Read
- Murray Gordon
- Clare Costanzo
- Ted Anderson (PRO)
- John Whitfield (Chief Umpire)
