Fun Sailing regattas are a natural for the sailors at Hogs Breath Cafe.

by Rob Kothe on 17 Jul 2001 Across Australia the 39 restaurant strong Hogs Breath Café group
provides great steaks in a relaxed party atmosphere. There are fifteen
Hogs Breath Cafes in NSW, five in Sydney at Bondi, Cronulla, Castle
Hill, St. Mary’s. with a brand new Café opened this week in Parramatta.

A fun company, yet the key to the close knit company management which
has grown the group so successfully since its start in 1987 has been the
adrenalin charged world of sail boat racing.

Hogs Breath Café founder Don Algie, was winning on the world Hobie Cat
circuit in the early 80’s but now races his 55 foot yacht Storm in the
Whitsundays. Back in his Hobie days he met Brett Dryland, now Hogs
Breath Café’s Top Hog. Brett won 3 world Hobie championships and won the
US offshore catamaran racing classic the Worrel 1000 back in 1980. His
Marketing Guy Miles Wood was the US Hobie Cat Director of Sales and
Marketing and won the Worrel 1000 in 1982 and was third in the Worlds
that same year.

So when the opportunity for involvement in a relaxed, fun lifestyle
sailing regatta in the Whitsundays came along…who better to sponsor it
than Hogs Breath Café.

In August 2001, the serious but not too serious 12th Annual Hogs Breath
regatta sailed in the warm Whitsunday waters off Airlie Beach will
attract 85 sailing boats, mostly monohulls. Part of the Hog Breath
Regatta will be the Australian Championships for the fast growing Sydney
38 One Design fleet.

As a prelude to the Airlie Beach Nationals the Hogs Breath Café
sponsored Sydney 38 NSW Titles will be sailed in Sydney Harbour and
offshore this coming Saturday and Sunday. Round One of the NSW Titles
was held back in late April and in this second round another five new
Sydney 38’s will be lining up for the first time, with the first rounds
ten.

Super close racing in the first round saw four different race winners in
five race, however the ‘new’ owners could easily “Hog” the limelight.
The CYCA’s John Messenger who has been the form Sydney 38 harbour
skipper of the last two months will be starting in the One Design fleet
for the first time, as will RPAYC Commodore John Paul’s Cardinal Sin,
RSYS sailors Steve Proud and Will Hutchins’ Swish and Anthony Skinner’s
Chainsaw.

Hogs Breath Café Marketing guy Miles Woods said, we are having a lot of
fun, these sailors sail hard and party hard too. We will be watching
to see who gets to be ‘Top Hog’ in the NSW titles closely, ‘cause it
will be a form guide for the Hogs Breath Nationals.