Big J/24 event of the Year!!
(New South Wales, Australia)- Leave it up to the fun-loving Australians for more out-of-the-box thinking and generate lots of enthusiasm for their ever-expanding J/24 program in Australia. For starters, the J/24 Australian NSW State Championships will be racing October 2-3. But, perhaps more importantly the Australian J/24 class is hosting the J/24 Legends Regatta on Monday 4th October 2010 at Gosford Sailing Club (e.g. like the 12 Meter "Legends Regatta" being held at New York YC's Harbour Court in Newport, RI this September). Here's your chance to have one of Australia's J/24 Sailing Legends sail on your boat as either skipper or crew. This will be the most amazing collection of past and current World Champions and National Champions the J/24 class has ever brought together for a day of racing and conviviality. Immediately following the State Championship, this one day regatta will become the stuff of Legends itself. If you want to meet and talk with, sail against and have a beer with Australia's Sailing Legends, you need to book early and be at the Legends Regatta.Invitations to the J/24 Legends Regatta event include World Champions, National Champions and Women on Water winners and supporters. The evening's Master of Ceremonies will be ex-J/24 sailor and "Master of the Universe", Rob Mundle. They already have Legends Mark Bethwaite (yeah, same family who helped create a bunch of Aussie 18s, the International 49er and 29er classes), Ian MacDiarmid, Garry Geitz, David Suda, Sean Wallis, Sean Kirkjian, Hugo Ottoway, Steve Girdis and Rod Waterhouse confirmed. BTW, are Ken Read, Morgan Larson, Terry Hutchinson and Ed Baird invited, too? Some say they are distantly related to a few "ex-convicts" (a few dozen generations back) and qualify somewhat tangentially as "Aussies Too". :) If you are interested in entering, or being involved, please contact Terry on 0413 876184 or Paula on 0404 539176. They'll be filling the ballroom pictured here!