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Tim Sewell has joined the Secretariat of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) in a new role as Head of Marketing and Events.

It's June already, here's the latest on Audi Victoria Week...

Audi and ONE have teamed up to present highlights from the 2010 sailing calendar. The next installment in the coverage of the Audi IRC Australian Championship will air this week.

Winners were grinners at Audi Victoria Week’s prize presentation ceremony held on Sunday at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club.

Four hundred and forty one yachts (over 4,400 competitors), sailing across 19 classes and divisions sailing at Audi Victoria Week at the Docklands and in Geelong – it could not get much better for Australia’s largest and Victoria’s oldest sporting event, now in its 166th year and featuring the largest number of boats at any regatta anywhere in Australia.

The record 200 plus cruising fleet contesting Audi Victoria Week on Geelong’s Corio Bay wrapped up their series today, Australia Day, with a colourful procession around the inner harbour.

Australia Day celebrations had to be put on hold for the divisions still battling for their final share of the silverware on offer at the 166th edition of the Royal Yacht Club of Geelong’s Audi Victoria Week, which wrapped up today on Corio Bay.

The generous donation of a high tech racing sailboat by an Australian company has raised $22,100 for the international children’s charity, Variety.

Canute and Surprise have finished off the job they came to do at Audi Victoria Week today, Australia Day, respectively winning Division 2 and 3 of the Audi IRC Series after sailing the final windward/leeward race on Corio Bay this afternoon. 

The skipper and crew of defending champion Cinquante went out on Corio Bay today determined to hang on to their narrow points lead in the Morris Finance Sydney 38 One Design Series at Audi Victoria Week.

Jono Shelley and his crew of Clare and Chris Molloy have won the SB3 William Angliss Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week after another strong performance in this morning’s final race.

Having led Division 1 of the Audi IRC Series at Audi Victoria Week until yesterday, Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business crew from South Australia had just one last chance to regain control in the final Race 6 sailed today on Corio Bay – and their second place overall was enough to overcome yesterday’s leader, Terra Firma, to win the trophy.

In challenging conditions on Corio Bay this morning, Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Series leader Roger That left nothing to chance by winning the final race at Audi Victoria Week.

Mach 2 Moth designer Andrew McDougall today added the McConaghy – KA Sails International Moth Victorian Championships to the Australian Moth title he won earlier this month.

With only a single race remaining, a fourth in Race 4 and a bullet in Race 5 have cemented Peter Horn’s chances of taking out Division 2 of the Audi IRC Series with his brand new King 40 Canute after today’s two races on Corio Bay.

The record cruising fleet contesting Audi Victoria Week on Geelong’s Corio Bay enjoyed a magic outing on the penultimate day of competition.

A margin of nine points separates the leading two boats in the Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Series at Audi Victoria Week after a tricky day’s racing on Corio Bay today.

Jono Shelley and his crew of Clare and Chris Molloy hold a commanding lead after the third day of racing in the SB3 William Angliss Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week.

David Collins and his Flying Circus crew from Geelong clinched their third successive S80 win at Audi Victoria Week today by the skin of their teeth after finishing the series on equal 13 points with Keith Chatto’s Mood Indigo from Melbourne.

Simon Vaughan’s RL24 Lowana Five from Sydney has firmed its grip on the BIA Trailable Yacht Series, today’s fourth and second putting the crew a comfortable 10 points clear of the second placed Plane Sailing.

Melbourne sailor Nicholas Bartels and his Terra Firma caught the rest of the Audi IRC Division 1 fleet out today, winning Race 5 to steal the Series lead from Secret Mens Business 3.5 which has led since the opening day of the series.

On the penultimate day of Audi Victoria Week, the Sydney 38s contesting the Morris Finance Series completed their two races, with Ian Murray’s well sailed Cinquante climbing to the top of the leaderboard with one race remaining.

Steve Brewin and Jack Benson have won the Club Marine Formula 18 Australian Championship at Audi Victoria Week with a masterful display of tactical sailing in a brand new C2 design called BO.

The Geelong Taxi Network Multihull Series, part of Audi Victoria Week, was decided yesterday afternoon, but final results were kept top secret until last night’s prize giving when Geoff Floyd, thinking he’d finished second, was called up as the overall winner of the eight-race series with his Corsair Sprint 750 called Chilli.

Mach 2 Moth designer Andrew McDougall has climbed to the top of the leaderboard in the McConaghy – KA Sails International Moth Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week with three strong results today, but he is tied on points with fellow Mach 2 sailor Lochlin Byrne.

Three wins from today’s three races have lifted the New Zealand based British skipper Jono Shelley to the top of the leaderboard in the SB3 William Angliss Victorian Championships at Audi Victoria Week.

The Melges 24 Roger That holds a seven-point lead in the Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Series at Audi Victoria Week after taking two wins and a second in today’s light to moderate, gusty conditions.

The huge Sunsail Cruising with Spinnaker fleet contesting Audi Victoria Week today sailed a 12 nautical mile Corio Bay course, but at one mark, there was less cruising and more shouting and bumping of hulls as the fleet converged in a slow motion pile up.

Following his pair of Division 2 wins in the Audi IRC Series today, Canute’s owner Peter Horn said, “I’m pretty relieved we’re doing so well - it was a big effort bringing my new boat here from Sydney and I didn’t know what would happen – I feel great now.”  

Following their overall win in the Passage Race yesterday, Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business 3.5 crew from South Australia meant business in races 2 and 3 of the Audi IRC Championship on Geelong’s Corio Bay this afternoon.

Simon Vaughan’s RL24 Lowana Five continued its winning form in the BIA Trailerable Yacht Series, which is part of the 166th Audi Victoria Week, scoring a first and a second in today’s two races to be leading the progressive pointscore by a comfortable seven points.

In an all-Victorian event, Anthony Beck’s Escape from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, had a narrow one today at Audi Victoria Week on Corio Bay, Beck’s two wins giving him a one point lead over two rivals.

Steve Brewin and Jack Benson dominated the second day of racing in the Club Marine Formula 18 Australian Championships at Audi Victoria Week today

On a sparkling Corio Bay off Geelong’s buzzing waterfront and surrounds, Audi Victoria Week continued today with all divisions taking to the waters of both the inner and outer harbour.

Kai Timm, Owen Muyt and Fred Blenke sailing Club Marine White got off to a great start in the SB3 William Angliss Victorian Championship at Audi Victoria Week, winning the first race by almost a minute in blustery winds on Corio Bay.

The Rotary Youth Audi Victoria Week program provides six 16-18 year olds from regional Victoria a chance to enjoy Australia’s largest sailing regatta and to celebrate the significance of Australia Day.

South Australian Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business 3.5 crew were declared winners of the Passage Race at Audi Victoria Week last evening after the 335-strong fleet finished the 34.3 nautical mile race from Williamstown to Geelong.

The record cruising fleet contesting Audi Victoria Week added plenty of colour and numbers to today’s starting list of 335 for the 34.3 nautical mile Passage Race from Williamstown to Geelong.

A brand new boat finished its first day of racing as the overall leader of the Club Marine Formula 18 Australian Championship at Audi Victoria Week today.

Being a one-design boat there is very little separating the 10 Sydney 38s contesting Audi Victoria Week, just the crew work and whatever tactics it takes to get an edge on the rest of the division.

Simon Vaughan’s RL24 Lowana Five braved today’s blustery winds on Corio Bay to claim a win in the opening race of the BIA Trailerable Yacht Series, which is part of the 166th Audi Victoria Week.

It was a baptism of fire for the 22-boat sports boat fleet in today’s opening race of the Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Championship at Audi Victoria Week. Strong winds and a missing mark on Geelong’s Corio Bay resulted in retirements, confusion and then an abandonment and restart.

The 46 foot catamaran Cascade proved that age is no barrier, the 35 year old boat taking the Geelong Taxi Network Multi-Hull Series provisional race win in today’s Audi Victoria Week Passage Race from Melbourne to Geelong.

Peter Coleman’s Hick 39 Just a Minor Hickup from Royal Brighton Yacht Club provisionally took out the Audi Victoria Week Passage Race honours in IRC Division 2, sailing a near perfect race, although the boat did finish slightly heavier than its start weight.

South Australian Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business 3.5 crew are already celebrating their provisional Division 1 overall win of the 34.3 nautical mile Passage Race at Audi Victoria Week this afternoon as they wait for confirmation.

Three hundred and thirty five boats faced the starter’s gun at 9.30am this morning in the 34.3 nautical mile Audi Victoria Week Passage Race from Williamstown to Geelong, with Victorian yachtsman Michael Hiatt and his Farr 55 Living Doll getting away quickly from mid line, leaving the rest of the monohull fleet behind for the entire race to take line honours.

Greg Cooper and Peter Southwell’s Adams 10 ‘Ten Too’ from Victoria sank approximately 10 nautical miles after the start of the Passage Race at Audi Victoria Week today following a collision with a second competing yacht.

Strong winds and confusion over the location of the course area reduced the size of the fleet at the start of the McConaghy – KA Sails International Moth Victorian Championships at Audi Victoria Week today.

A massive fleet of 335 boats of all types from Frassld, the Farrier 31 owned by Shaun Fishley, to line honours chaser Michael Hiatt’s Farr 55 Living Doll from Melbourne, last year’s Division 3 winner, Surprise, David Ellis’ Borresen BB10 and a number of beautiful cruising yachts will start in this morning’s 34.3 nautical mile Audi Victoria Week Passage Race from Williamstown to Geelong.

Young Australian Sailing Team sailor Nathan Outteridge came ashore at Waterfront City, Docklands, tonight with an ear splitting smile – and why not, he had just won the Audi King of the Docklands and in doing so, will drive home to the NSW Central Coast in a brand new Audi A4 Avant, courtesy of Audi. 

View all the action of the Docklands Invitational & King of the Docklands

Melbourne’s temperatures soared this afternoon thanks to a hot nor’westerly that quickly built from two to 43 knots, creating a furnace perfectly matched to the hot on-water action as the five-race Audi Docklands Invitational was decided off Williamstown.

The Rotary Youth - Audi Victoria Week program is well underway with six 16-18 year olds from regional Victoria in Melbourne to enjoy Australia’s largest sailing regatta and to celebrate Australia Day.

ING hosted Breakfast with the Stars at Waterfront City at Docklands in Melbourne this morning as part of Audi Victoria Week, and the who’s who of sailing assembled at the stunning Melbourne Yacht Club Hotel.

Alisa Camplin, Darren Bundock and Elise Rechichi have at least two things in common; they are Olympic medallists and Audi ambassadors, and today at Docklands Waterfront City in Melbourne, the three encouraged school children taking part in Yachting Victoria’s School Sailing program to get involved in sport – at any level.

It was no holds barred as those from cruising yachts to big multihulls to young teenagers from junior classes to grand prix sailors from Olympians to big boat racing winners rubbed hulls at the Audi King of the Docklands on the opening day of Audi Victoria Week this afternoon. 

New South Wales might have thrown the first punch in race one of the Audi Docklands Invitational but it was Geoff Boettcher’s South Australian Reichel Pugh 51 Secret Mens Business 3.5 that won the day with a second then a provisional win in race two which has him leading the five race series.

Audi Victoria Weeks sails into Port Phillip this week and the facts and figures from the largest sailing event in the southern hemisphere are sure to blow you away. 

A top heavy Victorian line up has the odds for an overall win stacked in the locals’ favour with just one New South Wales the cat amongst the pigeons at Audi Victoria Week’s Docklands Invitational. 

The list of IRC entries at Australia’s four largest regattas continues to grow each year - with good reason - and 2010 is no exception.

The King of the Docklands starts off an action-packed week of racing at Audi Victoria Week starting January 21, when winners from each of the 19 competing divisions from the previous two years’ events gather at Waterfront City at the Docklands to take their chances.

Entries for Australia’s largest and most established sailing regatta, Audi Victoria Week, closed late last night and today host club, the Royal Geelong Yacht Club is thrilled to announce a huge fleet of 441 yachts.

The fast and exciting Formula 18 (F18) catamarans are coming to Corio Bay in Geelong, where the Royal Geelong Yacht Club will host the F18 Australian Championship for the first time at Audi Victoria Week from January 23-26.

The strongest IRC grand prix fleet seen anywhere in world since for some time will venture into Victorian waters to take part in the annual Audi Victoria Week, to be held from January 21 and finishing on Australia Day, January 26.

The name is different, the colours have changed and the program has been altered – however Australia’s largest regatta and Victoria’s oldest sporting event is set to sail.

A high tech Mach 2 yacht – best described as a foiling speed machine - worth approx $20,000 will be auctioned on eBay to raise money for international children’s charity, Variety.

Volunteering at Audi Victoria Week is a chance to become involved in something truly unique.

All acts have been finalized for Audi Victoria Week with an eclectic mix of artists set to grace the stages along Geelong’s waterfront.

Five yachts from Tasmania will complete the passage across to Victoria to compete in Audi Victoria Week in January with the assistance of Toll Shipping.

This year – truly – was the Year of Audi.

In support of Audi Victoria Week, the Geelong Advertiser, a proud sponsor, will produce the official event program in a full colour gloss magazine to be published on Saturday 23 January.

Stay in the heart of all the Audi Victoria Week action on the vibrant waterfront

Yacht Charters in the Whitsundays from as little as $72 per person per night!*

In an attempt to improve the competitor experience, the Audi Victoria Week (AVW) executive has introduced a significant change to the format of the event for 2010.

Entry for Audi Victoria Week 2010 is now open.

In a major coup Geelong has won the bid to host a prominent world sailing championship in January 2012.

Expression of interest for the 2010 Audi King of the Docklands have been distributed to the divisional winners of this year’s Skandia Geelong Week and the owners/skippers from the incomplete 2009 Audi King of the Docklands.

Now in its fourth year, the 2010 Audi IRC Australian Championship will be launched in January at the largest sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere, Audi Victoria Week.

The Sunday Age is proud to partner Audi Victoria Week and is excited to be bringing this event to an affluent and influential Melbourne audience.

Sunsail Marketing Manager, Kim Lehmann has wed her beau Sailing School Principal, ‘Sharky’ Michael Silcock in an intimate beach setting on Catseye Beach, Hamilton Island on the 10th September.

The 2010 Audi Victoria Week Notice of Race is now available online.

Audi Victoria Week Event Coordinator Doug Jarvis recently returned from visiting the Rolex Maxi Championships in Porto Cervo and the final of the Audi Med Cup in Cartagena. He also met with the Royal Ocean Racing Club along the way. The AVW Media Team pose the questions...

The first line up has been revealed for the 2010 event with some big names in the mix…

Rhumbline Marketing has been announced as a finalist in the inaugural Australian Event Awards.

Australasia’s leading marine lifestyle publication, Club Marine Magazine will produce the Official 2010 Audi Victoria Week Program, which will be incorporated within the December 2009/January 2010 edition of the magazine.

Mary Longpre is an American photographer who for the past three years has spent much of January visiting Australia.

We are very pleased to announce that Rob Hampshire will return as Sailing Administrator during Audi Victoria Week.

Rod Jones’ Archambault 40RC Alegria has sailed to victory at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week to claim the Championship. It’s the second win for Jones who was the inaugural winner in 2007 in his Archambault 35 also called Alegria.

A new visitor guide has now been made available and will offer first time visitors a comprehensive look at the event.

Expressions of interest have been distributed to the top IRC racers worldwide to extend an invitation for them to compete in the 2010 Docklands Invitational.

Organisers of Audi Victoria Week, Rhumbline Marketing have won their second consecutive BT Publishing e-awards. The industry awards aim to recognise excellence in events and is a coup for the sport of sailing, having beaten other major events.

It is the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere - it is older than the Melbourne Cup, attracts more competitors than the 2006 Commonwealth Games, has more attendees than the AFL Grand Final - and has a brand new name.

The program for 2010 will kick off with the Docklands Invitational and the King of the Docklands, before all the action shifts to Geelong for four days of spirited competition.

Victoria’s oldest sporting event and Australia’s largest sailing regatta prepares to expand horizons without Skandia.

The event dates for Geelong Week 2010 are yet to be formally announced however will be Saturday 23 – Tuesday 26 January.

Clothes, hand made jewellery and even teeth whitening are all on offer at Audi Victoria Week with a wide array of stall holders coming to sell their wares.

Don’t miss your Geelong Advertiser this week for full event coverage of Audi Victoria Week!

All the information you need to know on buses, lunch orders, berthing etc.

The Audi King of the Docklands draw is now available.

Four hundred and forty one yachts (over 4,400 competitors), sailing across 19 classes and divisions sailing at Audi Victoria Week at the Docklands and in Geelong – it could not get much better for Australia’s largest and Victoria’s oldest sporting event, now in its 166th year and featuring the largest number of boats at any regatta anywhere in Australia.

Jack Sherring may only be 14 years of age, but he has scored himself a brand new Moth in a charity auction to raise money for the children’s charity, Variety.

Audi Victoria Week organisers are pleased to announce Variety will be the appointed charity during the event.