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14 May 2012It will be a family affair – husband, wife and their two children – aboard the yacht that has just become the 50th entry for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2012.
Geomatic, an impressive new Hanse 495 owned by Adrian Lewis, out of Mornington on Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay, was the yacht that took the fleet for this year’s regatta into the 50s. The...Read More
28 Mar 2012After beating Australia’s best in the Grand Prix Division at Geelong’s Festival of Sails, kiwis Jim Farmer and Chris Meads now have their sights set firmly on Australia’s largest keelboat regatta, Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2012.Farmer, an Auckland-based Queens Counsel and highly successful ocean racing yachtsman, is very much a Race Week enthusiast...Read More
03 Feb 2012Kiwi yachtsman Paul Young is so enthusiastic about being at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2012 he has already lodged his entry – more than six months before the regatta is launched on August 17.'I’ve tried for many years to get to Race Week as crew with other people, but outside influences have always prevented me being there,' Young explained from...Read More
11 Oct 2011Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2011 was hailed as the most successful and satisfying in the event’s spectacular 28-year history. There were 195 racing yachts – ranging from small cruisers to record-breaking supermaxis – and some impressive superyachts on the water. Then, when the sailing was done, crews, families, friends and island guests sampled the...Read More
28 Aug 2011Tasmanian crews have taken top honours in two of the three cruising divisions contesting Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. Southern excellence has made a big splash in what is once again the largest division racing at Hamilton Island where the competition wrapped up today with the abandonment of the final Molle Islands Race. Competitors were given an...Read More
28 Aug 2011The two Performance Racing divisions at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, which drew to a close today, provided the closest racing among the regatta’s 195 entrants.A range of conditions, from plenty of puff in the early part of the week trending down to today’s ‘barely there’ and the subsequent postponement of the final Molle Islands Race, served up a...Read More
28 Aug 2011• Actress, Naomi Watts, joins Audi as new brand ambassador• Announcement made at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2011• Audi MD hosts invitation-only dinner on Hamilton Island to welcome WattsQualia, Hamilton Island, Friday 26 August 2011 - Audi Australia has today announced a brand new partnership with actress, Naomi Watts.The announcement was made by...Read More
27 Aug 2011Darryl Hodgkinson’s Victoire had the IRC Class B series sewn up before today’s final scheduled Molle Islands Race, the Sydney plastic surgeon’s champion Beneteau 45 remaining on the dock while the rest wallowed about in light winds and drizzle in Dent Passage until racing was postponed.All Audi Hamilton Island Race Week results at the close of racing...Read More
27 Aug 2011A 28-year dream of winning the Grand Prix division at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week has been realised for Sydney yachtsman Marcus Blackmore. Blackmore’s sleek, gun metal grey-hulled TP52 Hooligan had the series in the bag before today’s scheduled Molle Islands Race, which wasn’t sailed given the wispy puffs of only 3 knots from around the compass in...Read More
27 Aug 2011Glenn Bourke’s total dominance in the SB3 class at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week must be disheartening for those looking towards next year’s world championship which will be staged by the Island in December.The SB3s wrapped up their regatta today, Bourke hammering the final nails in with a first and second in the closing two races sailed in Dent Passage...Read More