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ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship - Final showdown By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 10:29 AM Sun 10 Jun 2012
The final day of the 2012 ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship began in overcast conditions. Race 5 was a clean start and Mark Thornburrow, four up from the pin, got the best start while series leader Matthew Chew and fellow podium contender Peter McNeill (Iris 11) were buried. ...[more]

ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters day 3 - Can GT take the fast lane? By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 7:06 AM Sun 10 Jun 2012
Last night Graeme (GT) Taylor, the 2008 Etchells Australasian Winter Championship winner explained, slightly tongue in cheek, just how he plans to win his second winter title (no one skipper has yet achieved this result at this event). ...[more]

ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship day 2 - A testing time By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 3:21 PM Sat 9 Jun 2012
On day 2 of the ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship competitors were presented conditions similar to those of yesterday. The fleet went into sequence for the first start of the day. With a solid rain squall to the north of the course and sun shining through the clouds, racing commenced for race 3 of the series. ...[more]

Australian sailing adventurer Jessica Watson – hard work is the key By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 2:52 PM Sat 9 Jun 2012
Jessica Watson, 2011 Young Australian of the Year and certainly Australia’s most famous sailing teenager made world headlines when she successfully sailed solo through the Southern Ocean and around the globe when still just 16. We took the opportunity to catch up with the busy 19 year old ...[more]

ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship: Chew leads after day 1 By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 6:32 PM Fri 8 Jun 2012
Under grey skies the 2012 ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship fleet sailed up the Mooloolah River this morning for race 1 of the championship series. After two races were completed today, Matthew Chew and his Gen X Y crew Ashley Deeks and Brian Donovan (4,1) lead the regatta on a count back from Mark Bulka on Perfect Balance (2,3). ...[more]

Etchells Australasian Winter Championship - A swell time in Mooloolaba By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 8:42 AM Fri 8 Jun 2012
If you looked around the room at last night's Welcome function at the Wharf Tavern, most of the Etchells class 'big guns' are competing at this event just a few short months after their intensive Etchells Worlds campaigns in Sydney. Damien King and John Bertrand are missing but they will be back next year. ...[more]

Top class Etchells fleet set for 16th Mooloolaba Classic By ADCO Etchells Australasian Winters media, 7:49 AM Thu 7 Jun 2012
A highly competitive fleet of One Design Etchells will contest the 16th annual ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship off Mooloolaba on the Queensland Sunshine Coast commencing this week. ...[more]

Etchells – A lot of truth about this boat By ADCO Etchells Australiasian Media, 7:54 PM Tue 5 Jun 2012
Heavy weather and king tides are about to hit Queensland’s Sunshine coast, but these tough conditions should ease in time for Friday morning’s start of the 16th ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship. Australian Etchells Class President Jake Gunther, the skipper of one of six Victorian boats, is heading 1980 kilometres north on the highways from Melbourne to Mooloolaba. ...[more]

ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship – Lucky or Good? By ADCO Etchells Australiasian Media, 2:37 PM Thu 31 May 2012
In the world of One Design racing, the competition doesn’t get any tougher than in the Etchells class. Just ask the top players who have recently competed in the 2012 Wold Championship, but still have the taste for hard competition as they head north for the 16th ADCO Etchells Australasian Winter Championship ...[more]

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