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Congratulations Leslie Green and the team on Ginger, who have become our 2023 MC38 National Champions! With a dominant 10 point margin ahead of second place, Ginger led themselves to victory securing two bullets out of three races in day 3’s choppy, windy NE breeze.
MC38 2023 National Championships - CYCA - Regatta Report & Images
MC38 Series Act 5 - MHYC - Regatta Report & Images
MC38 Series Act 4 - MHYC - Regatta Report & Images
Act 4 - Images HERE
MC38 Series Act 3 - MHYC - Regatta Report & Images
Act 3 - Additional Photos by Marg Fraser-Martin HERE
MC38 Series Act 2 - MHYC - Regatta Report & Images
MC38 Series Act 1 - MHYC - Regatta Report & Images
2022 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Press Releases
MC38 Series 2022 Australian Championships - Overall - Winners Crowned
GO GO Beck out-sails family while Lazy Dog edges out Swish
By Lisa Ratcliff, September 19 2022
MC38 2022 Season Act 6, September 17-18 hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club with racing on Sydney Harbour. A third place to Christian Beck and his Infotrack GO team is as good as the MC38’s Act 6 overall victory given he beat two family members, the grinning skipper reckons.
MC38 2022 Season Act 5 hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club
MC38 2022 Season Act 4 hosted by RPAYC on Pittwater
By Lisa Ratcliff, June 19th 2022
Marcus Blackmore's Hooligan, sailing for the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, led the nine-boat fleet on day one and consolidated on day two, beating Steve Proud's Swish and the Indy Beck skippered InfoTrack on overall points.
"The racing was awesome; the level is as high as it's ever been," said Hooligan's tactician Ben Lamb.
MC38 2022 Season Act 3 May 14-15 MHYC
Ginger back on top By Lisa Ratcliff, May 15th 2022
After building nicely this season and knocking on the door of a series win, Leslie Green’s MC38 team on Ginger wrapped up a shortened Act 3 with plenty to spare.
Autumn nor’easters 5-12 knots meant Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s race officer Steve Tucker and his team could execute a full program of four races on day one, Saturday May 14.
MC38 2022 Season Act 2 March 12-13 CYCA
By Lisa Ratcliff, March 13th 2022
Christian Beck’s InfoTrack, from Middle Harbour Yacht Club, pipped Marcus Blackmore’s Hooligan, from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, by a point across four races. Results from day one stood after day two’s grim conditions failed to yield a single point.
MC38 2022 Season Act 1: Lazy Dog catches MC38 trophy on Pittwater
By Lisa Ratcliff, February 7th 2022
Owners Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart and the rest of the Lazy Dog team from Middle Harbour Yacht Club opened the MC38 class’ 2022 season soundly with a four-point win on Pittwater in gusty sou’east winds and dark cloud banks that dumped rain squalls, creating dramatic scenes against the dark coloured carbon fibre boats and black sails.
MC38 2021 Australian Championship at Middle Harbour Yacht Club: Lazy Dog’s back-to-back MC38 nationals victory
By Lisa Ratcliff, November 8th 2021
Back-to-back national MC38 titles for Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart's Lazy Dog was no picnic, hours of floating around Sydney Harbour expectantly on the final day yielding an empty scoresheet which meant victory reverted to day two's narrow lead of one point over Marcus Blackmore's Hooligan.
Hooligan hailed winner of MC38 2021 Season Act 3 at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club
By Lisa Ratcliff, June 20th 2021
Sydney dumped an ice-bucket on MC38 crews racing on Pittwater in Act 3 of the season, Marcus Blackmore's local Hooligan crew shaking off the dismal winter conditions, and their classmates, to land back on the one design class podium for the first time in a while.
MC38 2021 Season Act 1 at Middle Harbour Yacht Club: Lazy Dog’s ominous season opener
By Lisa Ratcliff, February 7th 2021
Quentin Stewart and Shaun Lane’s Lazy Dog team showed once again they are in a different realm, dropping just one race win from seven starts in the MC38 class’ opening act hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club.
MC38 2020 Season Act 6 at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club: Lazy Dog Act 6 and season winner
By Lisa Ratcliff, November 30th 2020
Middle Harbour Yacht Club's Lazy Dog team closed out the 2020 MC38 calendar with a third series triumph, giving Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart's crew the overall season trophy from six acts.
MC38 2020 Season Act 5 at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron: Lazy Dog wins and InfoTrack debuts
By Lisa Ratcliff, October 25th 2020
Sydney returned to deep winter for the MC38 class' penultimate act of their 2020 season, temperatures in the low to mid-teens with rain and southerly gusts up to 30 knots on Sydney Harbour blowing up Ginger's kite and sending hundreds of litres of saltwater cascading over the decks of the eye-catching 38 footers.
MC38 2020 Season Act 4 at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club: First MC38 Regatta win for Swish
By Lisa Ratcliff, July 26th 2020
First MC38 Regatta win for Swish. Close to two years of shooting for a MC38 one design class top result finally yielded Steve Proud's Swish team the main prize, on dreary Pittwater in the shortened five-race Act 4 winter pointscore.
MC38 2020 Season Act 3 at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron
By Lisa Ratcliff, June 21st 2020
Winter sailing on Sydney Harbour is often fraught, light winds and plenty of shifting potholes to catch the unsuspecting out. For the MC38s crews who returned to their season after months of COVID isolation, getting the fleet back together and completing the seven-race program was more than enough compensation for the tricky conditions.
2020 MC38 Season Act 1 at Middle Harbour Yacht Club
By Lisa Ratcliff, February 2nd 2020
The MC38s are back at it and the new season began with fireworks, Lightspeed struck hard by Lazy Dog in a port/starboard incident in fresh conditions on Saturday February 1 and unable to finish the day, but ultimately returning to claim top regatta honours.
