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⚓ June Long Weekend 🍻at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club![]()
Enjoy the King's Birthday Long Weekend down at the club, open Saturday, Sunday and Monday for ☕🍳Breakfast (8:00am) and Lunch, including Bar trade till the late afternoon. ![]()
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Heading out on water over the weekend? ![]()
The Tender Service will be operating between 8:00 - 5:00pm, grab your takeaway items from the Bistro. ![]()
Bistro Bookings: rpayc.com.au/online-bookings/ walk-ins welcome#KingsBirthdayWeekende#junelongweekende#BistroandBarn#breakfastandlunchL#waterfrontdiningi#TenderServicer#weekendplansP#foodanddrinkD#CasualDiningi#rpaycRPAYC
⏳ Countdown to East Coast has officially started… this long weekend! at Woollahra Sailing Club.![]()
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Strong list of entries for the weekends regatta, from the Opti, ILCA and 29er fleets 👏![]()
Good luck to our RPAYC Sailors racing on Sydney Harbour. ![]()
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Late Entries, Race Documents & Results - Register here: www.optinsw.org.au/events/354802![]()
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📰 📸MEDIA RELEASE | Antipodes first entry for the inaugural Lord Howe Ocean Race 2026![]()
Geoff Hill was quick off the mark, as soon as entries opened for the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) inaugural Lord Howe Ocean Race, the Hong Kong-based businessman entered his Santa Cruz 72, Antipodes, making them the first entry received for the biennial event due to start on Friday of the October long weekend this year. ![]()
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Hill has put a lot of ocean miles under the hull of his comfortable Antipodes, which created the record in the RPAYC’s 1250 nautical mile inaugural Sydney to Auckland Race across the Tasman Sea back in 2023. ![]()
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That record was broken by Bryon Ehrhart’s Juan K 27 metre pedigreed racing machine, Lucky, And Antipodes was pipped to the post for second over the line and overall by Mick Martin’s TP52, Frantic. ![]()
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The changeable and fickle nature of the last few days of the race dictated the two yachts would be left playing cat and mouse while those behind were fast catching up, but Hill continues to be seduced by new ocean offerings by ‘The Alfreds’![]()
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“I think it’s a fantastic idea,” Hill said. “It’s a genuine ocean race – and it’s purely a NSW race - which should put NSW on the sailing map. ![]()
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“I also love the idea of sailing 450 miles there and 450 miles back. You don’t stop anywhere. And it’s almost as long as Sydney to Auckland race,” said the yachtsman who contested three of the old Gosford to Lord Howe Island races.![]()
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Hill believes RPAYC has come up with a brilliant initiative: “I think it’s a very good idea to hold the race biennially in even years with the Sydney to Auckland held at the same time of year in the odd years. And the timing of it doesn’t clash with any other major sailing event in Australia.![]()
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“It’s fantastic preparation for anyone doing the Sydney Hobart too,” says Hill, who will leave Antipodes in the capable hands of his daughter, Natasha for the 2026 Rolex Sydney Hobart, after she co-skippered the yacht with him in last year’s race.![]()
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Starting from Broken Bay on Pittwater on Friday 2 October, the race will take the fleet around Balls Pyramid off Lord Howe Island and return to the finish back at Pittwater – one long continuous race. ![]()
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The Lord Howe Island Ocean Race is open to fully crewed monohulls, double-handed monohulls and fully crewed multihulls.![]()
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Early Bird entry discount ends at 1700 hours on 1 September 2026.![]()
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👉 Read the full release rpayc.com.au/lord-howe-ocean-race/
