With over 500 Sailors and families competing on the waters of Geographe Bay for the last week, we’re hoping everyone who was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of this amazing event with Photos being shared worldwide during the busy week in Busselton WA.
With over 80 visiting yachts from all of WA, joined by crews from all over the world including current Olympic sailors, Americas cup champions, current State, National and International world champions all in Busselton keen to get involved in the weeks sailing.
Conditions were ideal with moderate breezes and flat water seeing the competition “blast” around the bay!
ViperX Cup
The 3 Day mini regatta was intense with the Viper and VX One fleet battling it out for the Prestigious “ViperX Cup” and prizes galore. The Viper 640 won out the week against the newest yachts to WA in the VX One class.
🥇Good Viperations- Viper 640 Graeme Monkhouse- SoPYC
🥈Protopia- VX One Alan Smith- RFBYC
🥉Atheris- Viper 640 Murray Howson- PRSC
Flying 15’s
The Flying 15’s saw current Australian Champion Nick Jerwood team up with his daughter Nia fresh back from Paris olympics and take out the Championship win.
🥇Best Foot Forward- Nick & Nia Jerwood.
🥈A-Squared- Andrew & Anne Knowles
🥉Ineffible- Mike & Paul Dunbar
Keelboats
The Main fleet of keelboats enjoyed a well deserved rest on Wednesday which saw the majority of visitors venture out and about to sample some of Margaret Rivers finest food & wine with mini buses and restaurants booked out.
Thursday saw a windward/leeward race for divisions 1 to 4, followed by an afternoon passage race where div 5 to 7 rejoined the fleet. Strong breezes saw some incredible competition.
Friday was the final day of sailing where the 10 different divisions enjoyed strong breezes and a short course before sailors enjoyed final presentations at Geographe Bay Yacht Club with new champions being crowned.
Regatta Director Scott Olney had this to say “We just love having everyone down south for WA’s premier sailing regatta, this year we saw a big increase in participation with some new boats recently arriving into WA making their journey to Geographe Bay, time doesn’t stand still though as plans for an even bigger and better event in February 2026 is already underway, Dates are Feb 14-20 with 6 Elliott’s 7s available for Charter!”.
Coming out on top were:
⛵️Division 1 IRC
🥇 Obsession- MAT 1245 Paul & Ceris Arns
equal 1st 🥇 Giddy Up- Farr 395 James Halvorsen
🥈Murphys Law-Sydney 32 April Jorgensen
⛵️Super 30’s IRC
🥇Dont Panic- Bethwaite 89er Kenny Stevenson/David Davenport
🥈The Cadillac- Barrel 9.5 Peter Chappell
🥉 Green Arrow- Cape 31 Mirko Moeller
⛵️ S97’s
🥇 Silver Fern- Alastair McMichael
🥈 Ocean Cowboy- Fred Talbot
🥉 Hornets Nest- Stephen Cowle
⛵️Division 3
🥇 Itinerant- Farr 9.2 Mark Hanson
🥈 The Fox- Bakewell White 8Alan Thomas
🥉 Windswept- Sunfast 32 Ernie Delfos
⛵️Prem Cruising
🥇Fortuosity- C&C110 Janet Hornbuckle
🥈 Ken Waller- Jeanneau 53 Jean Genie
🥉 Thirsty Work- Swarbrick 125 David Clifton
⛵️ Jib & Main A
🥇 Kulahea- Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 41 Adrian Wilson
🥈 The Sandgroper- Beneteau Oceans 411 Andrew Bruechert
🥉 Spritzig II- Dufour 40 Diana Dunbar
⛵️ Jib & Main B
🥇Huckleberry- S&S 34 Phil Somerville
🥈Heavan Can Wait- Bavaria 38 Gary Griffiths
🥉 Lady Liza- Bavaria 37 Tony Mills
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