Port Macquarie Yacht Club requires that yachts on its racing register comply with mandatory minimum equipment and safety standards. While not mandatory, situational training is considered desirable, including man overboard training. Cool Change’s crew will be entitled to claim exemptions following a man overboard incident and recovery during last Sunday’s river “A” race. · Read more

With nine yachts having lengths from twenty feet to forty feet starting in Sunday’s Port Macquarie Yacht Club river “B” between the ferries race, and the fleet including cruisers and outright racers,  inequality between competitors seemed problematic. With an additional minus being the shortage of crew on most yachts it was easy to forget that a minus multiplied by a minus equals a plus. · Read more

With a forecast of a 25 knot southerly and seas up to 3 meters several skippers pondered as to whether to compete, but on the day four yachts elected to face the starter in Port Macquarie Yacht Club’s first offshore event of 2026. · Read more

The newest addition to the Port Macquarie Yacht Club Fleet, Larissa Trapeznikova’s “Ninja” emphatically announced her arrival in last Sunday’s river race “C”, from Settlement Point to  the Maria river. With a well earned victory in testing conditions Ninja was able to convert her last few “nearly but not quite” results to a top of podium finish, and second on the annual river pointscore on the back of the blistering speed shown in the first and second legs of the three leg race. · Read more

Lies, lies damned lies and statistics. It has been said so many times in so many different ways, but sometimes the numbers are simply unarguable, as last Sunday’s river race “C” demonstrated. · Read more

After taking home the Katiward Broken Oar hard luck trophy for 2025, Kookaburra commenced her title defence last Sunday, when with a full crew assembled and about to depart her mooring, it was noticed that the exhaust was waterless. A preliminary inspection found the issue not immediately repairable, and that yacht withdrew from Sunday’s Long Ocean event without leaving the mooring. · Read more

The fiercely contested Port Macquarie Yacht Club river series placings are now determined after Last Sunday’s long river race “C”, sailed from Settlement Point to the Dennis Bridge turning mark, and return. Sailed in a northerly breeze that slowly built over the course of the race, before shifting to north easterly, a moderate fleet of 5 yachts turned out to contest the event. · Read more

The 2026 event calendar has been published and includes over 70 races for 2026. · Read more

With it being mathematically impossible to lose Port Macquarie Yacht Club’s river race series, Cool Change’s skipper started last Sunday’s river “A” race, with the intention of sailing skilfully though not necessarily competitively, and in doing so take enjoyment by finding the optimal performance that yacht could deliver. · Read more