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Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 25 August 2019
project diary 25 August 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 25 August 2019 Firstly apologies for not having a report last week. I have been having computer...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 11 August 2019
project diary 11 August 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 11 August 2019 Thanks to Con for this week report. This week we glued the new keel on. Next job...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 4 August 2019
project diary 5 August 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 4 August 2019 Detail work continued and all the inserts in the outside of the hull are now...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 27 July 2019
project diary 27 July 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 27 July 2019 I am certainly learning a whole new set of skills under the watchful eye of master...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 21 July 2019
project diary 21 July 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 21 July 2019 A week of hull patching. Con and Robert and later Robert and I did the patching on...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 15 July 2019
project diary 15 July 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 15 July 2019 What bliss! The sound of three heat guns and two sanders. Tangalooma has fully...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 6 July 2019
project diary 6 July 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 6 July 2019 Good progress made this week on a number of fronts. We had a visit from a...
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress – 29 June 2019
project diary 29 June 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project - 29 June 2019 Work continues with teams working on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Robert Tearne started...
Tangalooma Restoration Progress Report – 22-Jun-2019
project diary 22 June 2019
Tangalooma Restoration Project - 22 June 2019 We floating the boat around to Pattons a week ago. and hauled it up into the workshop to...
A drone's eye view – Tangalooma and Australia IV
video 25 April 2019
A drone follows Tangalooma and Australia IV down Sydney Harbour.
A day at the Sydney Flying Squadron
video 12 April 2019
A short film capturing a day at the Sydney Flying Squadron, following the club, its historical 18 footers and their crews on Sydney Harbour....
Britannia capsizes in 35 knots
video 9 April 2019
Sydney historical 18-footer BRITANNIA in a race which ended in a terminal fill up in 35 knots. Out of 8 boats in the fleet on 30 March 2019...
Sydney Flying Squadron – About us
notice 5 April 2019
An introduction to the Sydney Flying Squadron, founded by Mark Foy in 1891, Australia's oldest open boat sailing club, home of the Historic...
Top Weight's Day – 8 Nov 2018
video 12 December 2018
Video from Top Weight's Day at the Sydney Flying Squadron on 8 November 2018, with racing footage of the historical 18 footers from Smithy's...
MHYC 2013 Sydney Harbour Regatta
video 5 December 2018
Video of the classic 18 foot skiffs racing at the 2013 Sydney Harbour Regatta hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club, with footage of the...
18-footers Season 2017- 2018
video 4 July 2018
Season video following the historical 18 footer Britannia through the 2017-18 sailing season, with racing footage on Sydney Harbour from...
18-footers Australian Championship final race 2018
video 29 January 2018
Video of the final race of the 2018 Australian Historical 18 Footers Championship, in which Harold Cudmore took out the title. Posted in...
18-footers pending demise -1987
video 19 January 2018
A 1987 video looking at the predicted demise of the 18 footers, capturing the class at a difficult point in its history. Shared on the club...
18-footers in 1983
video 3 July 2017
Archival video from 1983 showing 18 footers and the people who sailed them, a record of the class in the early 1980s shared on the club site...
What are you doing
video 10 March 2017
Short video of the historic 18 foot skiff Alruth sailing on Sydney Harbour, a companion piece to other Alruth films shared by the club....
Alruth – Chowder Bay to Shark Island
video 5 March 2017
Video of the historic 18 foot skiff Alruth humming along from Chowder Bay to Shark Island on Sydney Harbour, posted to the club site in...
Australian Historic 18 footer skiffs – National Championship 2011
video 30 January 2014
Race highlights video from the Australian Historic 18 footer skiffs National Championship, covering Race 2 of the series. The page title...
Myra Too – launching and maiden sail
video 6 January 2014
Video of the launching and maiden sail of the historical 18 footer Myra Too, a replica of the celebrated early 1950s champion skiff. Filmed...
18 FOOT SKIFFS 1966-67 SYDNEY HARBOUR
video 24 July 2013
Vintage film of 18 foot skiffs racing on Sydney Harbour during the 1966-67 season, shared as a YouTube video. A glimpse of the open boats...