FREMANTLE WORLDS – ACCOUNTS
In keeping with member opinions expressed at the last AGM, the Fremantle Worlds Accounts have now been published HERE. In brief there was a modest surplus which was distributed 3 ways to: The Fremantle Sailing Club The West Australian [...]
Summer is coming & there is 505 sailing all over the world
The 2019 season started early with the World Championships in Fremantle, Australia. If you haven't already you should check out the Wrap Up Video. SEE VIDEO Next is Leg 1 of the Euro [...]
INSPIRATION FOR SUMMER
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World Championships . An Outsider’s Perspective
Fremantle as the port city of Perth in Western Australia has a rich heritage of seafaring and the fabled Freo Doctor, the sea breeze that comes in around noon during summer played its part in this regatta. How do you [...]
An interview with Andrew Cawley about the 2019 505 World Championships
British designer John Westell originally designed the 18-foot “Coronet” as a contender for a berth as a two-person performance dinghy in the Olympic Games, but the deign lost out during the International Yacht Racing Union’s 1953 selection trials to the [...]
Final Day of World Championship
With the regatta already won by Mike Martin and Adam Lowry in impressive form, the final two races were held in champagne sailing conditions. The contest for the remaining top positions was closely fought and went right down to the [...]
Day 4. Race 7 & 8.
1100 hrs and we’re waiting on the shore! The easterlies are holding us on the shore until the sea breeze begins to develop. Everyone is camping under the trees around the boat park and cool is the name of the [...]
Day 3. Races 4,5 &6
Hard yards on the water today with PRO Olsen pushing the yachts and crews to the limit. Not content with a simple catch up from the previous day, today was the day that separated the front from the back. The [...]
World Championship Day 2
This wasn’t the Doctor today, a frontal system had moved in and was pushing some decent breeze into the coast. The day started with the best part of the breeze whistling in our ears as the course was set around [...]
