Speedy Unrig???

Ye it mite be fast to unrig like this but i wouldnt recommend it... im guessing a little expensive also... and thats no way to treat another of my old 18s sold off to Europe many many years ago

Nasty beach break there in Travemunde in far north Germany these guys had to deal with and not a very pretty outcome either... bad luck guys... hope it all goes back together again soon... at least there where lots of skiff guys there to help at the end

Crazy Hungarians

Well you would have to be to do this!!!!!!!

15 hours on an 18!!!!!!!

My great mates from Budapest sailing in the famous Blue Ribbon on Lake Balaton... on my old skiff from Sydney... and doing well to come home 5th over the line very late at nite

Link... http://www.skiffsailing.hu/

Truelly incredible to sail an 18 for this long... great effort guys... not sure many 18s in Sydney would show this much dedication or insanity... not sure which is the best word for it

More info to come soon

Sex Sells

Well apparently thats the excuse!!!

Petra Niemann has sailed for Germany in the last 3 Olympics and the German Olympic girls have got together to promote their individual olympic sports by getting the gear off for Playboy mag in the land of the deutsch. Link here... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/olympics/article1558405.ece

Specially love the extra touch of the old sail cloth in the background

We stayed in Petras apartment in Berlin 2005 for a month when we where sailing the 18s in Europe with her boyfriend... lovely girl... great sailor... but i never thought she would do this!!!!! Well done Petra

And hopefully it does some good for sailing in the media... it is after all what the seem to want and what everyone keeps saying these days... Sex Sells!!!!!!!!!!

New Carbon Wings

Finally our home made carbon wings are all done... only taken me about a year but im sure the huge weight saving over the old alloy wings will play a major part in getting the boat up to pace with the League guys!!

shiny new carbon looks cool... ye!!! Just need to add all the various fittings, nets and control lines and we should be able to get them wet this weekend if all goes to plan... and me and the boys can finally shake those winter cobwebs off... looking forward to the season start in about a month and we are well on track for Brass Monkey in 2 weeks

New pic

This has been long overdue on our "todo" list from last year and the added splash of colour looks pretty cool too.... The new paint job from last season never got finshed perfectly and we had the problem of many paint "edges" of all the joins in clolour... so after about 2 hole days of wet and dry and buff its now show room shinny and silky smooth... which hopefully is a bit quicker than last year

Pics and Vids

Ok they are from last year but i do have to start somewhere

And heres the link for our Youtube video as well... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ynBxtBce60&feature=related

New Team Blog

Welcome to our new skiff blog

Hopefully you will enjoy your time here as our skiff team does battle against other skiffs at the SFS and the League

We will be regular bloggers with lots of pics and videos so come back soon as the new sailing season is only weeks away now.

The team will have some new crew line up this year and new naming rights sponsor announced soon... stay tuned

The annual SFS Brass Monkey regatta is our first competetion for the summer... Link here... http://sydneyflyingsquadron.com.au/bm/default.htm
Will be interesting how our teams off season boat work has improved our performance from last year... or not!! We still have some new sails and carbon bits to come, so all in all should be a very interesting year