In November Middle Harbour Amateur Sailing Club (MHASC) in Sydney, Australia was asked if it could help Samoa’s Olympic aspirant Vai’mo’oi’a (Vai) Ripley hone her skills by sailing on Sydney Harbour on her way to Oman for the 2021 ILCA 6 (Radial) Women’s World Championship. […]
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New Zealand Laser Nationals in Windy Wellington
In Oceania club and district level sailing is going on as normal thanks to low and controlled levels of COVID. In Australia the 2021 national championships had to be postponed until January 2022 but in New Zealand the 2021 Catalyst Laser Nationals were held with […]
Read moreOceania Brother and Sister Papua New Guinea Laser Sailors Qualify for Tokyo Olympics
At the Laser World Championships in Melbourne Australia earlier this year Papua New Guinea siblings Rose-Lea and Teariki Numa (pictured) qualified PNG for the men’s and women’s Laser events and will represent PNG at the Tokyo Olympics next year. Other Oceania sailors who have qualified […]
Read more2020 Oceania & Australian Laser Masters Championships – Geelong, Australia March
The Oceania & Australian Laser Masters Championship was concluded at Royal Geelong Yacht Club on 17th March. Only three of the scheduled four days were sailed due to hightened COVID-19 risk. It was unfortunate but inevitable that the following Laser World Masters series was postponed […]
Read moreOceania Laser Championships Melbourne Australia January 2020
The 2020 Oceania Laser Championships were held at Sandringham on Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, Australia from 17th to 21st January. These championships were held as part of Sail Melbourne International which saw over 300 competitors from 25 countries contest events in all Olympic classes and […]
Read moreOceania Laser Championships 17-21 January 2020
The Oceania Laser Championships are coming up 17-21 January 2020 at Royal Brighton Yacht Club in Victoria Australia. These Championships in 2020 are being run with the annual Sailing Australia Sail Melbourne International and have so far attracted 130 of the top Laser sailors in […]
Read moreOceania Feature Location – American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located on part of the Samoan Islands located in the South Pacific Ocean around 3,000 Km NNE of New Zealand. It has 50,000 population mostly on the main island of Tutuila with and 224 Sq […]
Read moreHuge Laser Program of Events Melbourne Australia in 2020
The Standard Men’s (9-16 February) and Radial Women’s (21-28 February) Laser World Championships are the major events of the 2020 Summer of Sailing at Sandringham YC in Melbourne. Two other World Championships the Laser Men’s Radial (21-28 February) and the Laser World Masters (19-28 March) […]
Read moreGreat Women’s Laser Regatta DBSC Sydney
The Women’s Laser Regatta in September hosted by Double Bay Sailing Club, Sydney, Australia was again a great success and was fully subscribed. The two-day event comprised yoga each morning; an on and off the water coaching clinic; debrief and Q&A; dinner at DBSC; racing […]
Read moreOceania Laser Class Association Annual General Meeting 2020
The AGM for OLCA will be held at Sandringham Yacht Club, Victoria, Australia co-incident with the Australian Open Laser Championships. Many regional sailors are expected to be in Melbourne at this time for the Australian, and following Oceania and World Championship events. The meeting will […]
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