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18ft Skiff

18ft Skiff

The ultimate three-man, winged & trapeze flying machine. Developed in Australia over the last two decades to what it is today, the 18ft Skiff now has a good UK circuit.

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Show news Sixt team leads 18ft Skiff Spring series
Pre-season preparation pays off for young team
Posted on 29 Oct 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
A great 3-buoys race developed after an unpromising start to the day
Posted on 26 Oct 18ft Skiffs: Lazarus 18ft Skiff Racing Team
Aiming to create a record for Lazarus
Posted on 23 Oct 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 2
Also the first race of the Club Championship on Sydney Harbour for the Alf Beashel Memorial Trophy
Posted on 19 Oct 18ft Skiffs: SIXT Spring Championship, Race 1
An unfortunate opening to the Australian 18 Footers League's 2025-26 summer season
Posted on 12 Oct SailMedia Livestream
Taking Sydney Harbour 18ft skiff racing to the world
Posted on 9 Oct John 'Woody' Winning, 50 years in the 18s
One of the three greatest influencers on the 134-year-old iconic Australian sport
Posted on 7 Oct 2025 European 18ft Skiff Circuit wraps up
Conditions tested crews across the fleet in Plymouth, UK
Posted on 6 Oct David Porter, King of Sydney Harbour in the 1970s
During one of the greatest eras in the 134-year history of the 18ft Skiff class
Posted on 21 Sep The Kitchen Maker 18ft Skiff Racing
Long-time sponsor ready for the 2025-26 season
Posted on 14 Sep The Vaikobi 18ft Skiff Team 2025
One of the young teams expected to be amongst the leading group this season
Posted on 7 Sep The Sixt 18ft Skiff Team 2025
Young team hoping for a more settled start to the 2025-26 season
Posted on 30 Aug Ultra-high performance sailing and hemp extract
Bulwarks and Bulldust welcomes Jack Macartney into the Captain's Chair
Posted on 23 Aug Bulwarks and Bulldust – Show 3 Season 2
Show Three of Season Two - Joel Turner of GC Sails - is now up and running
Posted on 15 Aug How the Australian 18 Footers League began
The evolution of Australia's leading 18 footer club
Posted on 13 Aug Vaikobi Launches Custom Teamwear Program
To Elevate Team Identity and Performance
Posted on 7 Aug Rockport Crew's 25th Year Reunion
Record-breaking 18ft Skiff team celebrate in London
Posted on 29 Jul New Zealand: 18 footer innovators
Strong contributors to the 18ft Skiff's evolution over the years
Posted on 23 Jul 18ft Skiffs: Queensland 18 footer history
Decades of successful ideas and achievement
Posted on 2 Jul 18ft Skiff European Championships
Germany's Black Knight takes the title by a single point
Posted on 27 Jun Western Australia's 18 footers history
An on-off situation between the 1890s and 2013
Posted on 11 Jun The link between two great Australian sports
A unique connection between brute strength and beauty
Posted on 25 May The last 18' skiff champion before one design
Michael Spies won the 1993 and 1995 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championships
Posted on 14 May Smeg's 29 years of 18ft Skiff sponsorship success
It all began when a Trevor Barnabas-led team raced a skiff named Omega Smeg-2UE
Posted on 7 May The 18ft Skiff 'Big Boat Era'
The original 18 footers which raced from the 1890s to the mid-1930s
Posted on 23 Apr A look back at the 2003 18ft Skiff JJ Giltinan
The closest of 76 regattas in the greatest championship
Posted on 30 Mar Winnings JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship Day 7
The Yandoo team of Tom Needham, Fang Warren and Lewis Brake wrap up the win
Posted on 16 Mar Winnings JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship Day 6
Yandoo in pole position going into Sunday's final race
Posted on 15 Mar Winnings JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship Day 5
A critical race going into the weekend's final two races
Posted on 13 Mar Winnings JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship Day 4
Races 5 and 6 were light and shifty
Posted on 12 Mar
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A high speed run to the wing mark off Shark Island for the Sixt crew in Race 2
© SailMedia Downwind in Race 2's Nor'East wind
© SailMedia Fisher and Paykel heads to the finish line off Double Bay in Race 2
© SailMedia Joel Beashel skippers Rag and Famish Hotel in Race 3
© SailMedia Vaikobi's crew in Race 2 action
© SailMedia Balmain's crew in Race 2
© SailMedia Sixt crew going for the spinnaker for the run home in Race 3
© SailMedia Club Marine and The Kitchen Maker in Race 3
© SailMedia Smeg leads a tightly bunched group at the weather mark in Race 3
© SailMedia Tash Bryant holds an early lead with Yandoo in Race 3 of the Spring Championship
© SailMedia Spectators get a close up view of the racing last Sunday
© SailMedia Yandoo on the way to victory in Race 1 of the Club Championship
© SailMedia Wild ride for the series leader in Race 2
© SailMedia Lazarus Capital Partners, winner of Race 2 in the Spring Championship
© SailMedia A close battle down the final spinnaker run before victory for Sixt - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Drama for Fisher and Paykel at the weather mark - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Mark rounding was close all day - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Soon after the start - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Tight for third place early in the race - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Sothebys Ballard Properties and Lazarus Capital Partners were mid fleet throughout the race - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia First weather mark action - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Race for third place at the first weather mark - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Sixt leads down the first spinnaker run - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Vaikobi tried hard to close the margin on the run to the finish - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Concentration for the crew of Sixt on the way to victory - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Two young teams on the way to top-5 finishes - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Leaders head to the first set of weather marks - 18ft Skiff SIXT Spring Championship Race 3
© SailMedia Battling for the lead at the 2024 Giltinan Championship
© SailMedia On the way to second place in last Sunday's club championship
© SailMedia Noakes Youth at the 2022 Giltinan Championship
© Frank Quealey
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