Abbotsford 12ft Flying Squadron Inc

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Werrell Reserve, Abbotsford Point., Sydney, Australia

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Guest presenter at Presentation night 15 May 2010

This year's guest presenter at the presentation night will be Mr Brett Hobson

Brett began his successful sailing career at Abbotsford 12' F.S., in 1993. He first sailed in the Flying 11s class. Brett's crew, Alex Johnson, began sailing at Abbotsford in Sabots at the same time. After crewing for two seasons, firstly with his father Gary and then for Peter Hill, Brett skippered his own Flying 11 with Alex as his crew. All these years later they are still sailing together.
Over the ensuing years Brett and Alex, sailing their skiff 'Guarde', have won many 12 foot Skiff Association events including several Parramatta River Championships, Upper Harbour Championships, and a couple of National titles including the one held this Easter in Queensland. In 2009 they achieved  the ultimate in 12 ft skiff sailing, the Interdominion Championship.





Sabot Zones February 2009

  • Perfect weather for the Sabot Zones. The Zones are often the first regatta children participate in.

  • Twenty three 1ups and 14 two ups registered.Seven boats from Abbotsford took part including two new skippers (Matthew Stevens and Euan Hart).Nicole Barnes broke her mast in first race. Unfortunately because of no wind and the tsunami warning on Sunday there were only 3 races (so no drops). Nicole was able to borrow a mast for the rest of the race series.

  • In the One Ups on sratch Greta Quealy was 4th and Nicole Barnes (despite the mast breakage) came 6th, Jameson Coombs was 7th, Kirrily Biskupic came 13th and Anne Vervoort was 16th.

  • On Handicap Jameson Coombs was 2nd, Kirrily Biskupic 3rd, Anne Vervoort 4th

  • In the Two Ups on scratch Robin Biskupic and Jackson Hill came 8th, Matthew Stevens was 10th and Euan Hart was14th.

  • On Handicap Robin Biskupic and Jackson Hill were 3rd. Matthew Stevens, Harrison Coombes & Sam Mathieson received an encouragement award

  • Scout was in attendance for the Zones as a spectator platform which was well utlised, thanks to Jim Wiley and Neil Hibbard in availing their assistance for the two full days Saturday & Sunday



Cherub State Titles Heat 1 and 2

17 October, we had spectacular races from the Cherubs between Exile and Glade. The below video gives a small impression of the perfect sailing day.




Mast Video

October 10 Jakub Ronowicz and Pete Valpiani tried out their mast camera gadget. See video below. Well done guys!


Women's Match Racing

Congratulations to Nicole Souter and her crew including our own Kathleen Stroinovsky on winning the women's match racing. See here

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