VJ Photos from Teralba Amateur Sailing Club at Lake Macquarie NSW:
Sat 1st April 2023:
As we sailed out to the starting line the wind was a pleasant light-moderate sou-easter. However as the 5 minute starting procedure for the VJs got underway, a moderate-fresh southerly came though. The wind continued to increase through the afternoon, resulting in several breakages and retirements in the Teralba fleet. GoPro image is from Big Apple IV on the way home soon after the southerly arrived.
Sat 18th March 2023:
In a perfect moderate ENE breeze, Go Hard 2 and Big Apple IV duelled it out all round the course with the lead changing several times. On the final spinnaker reach from the wing mark Go Hard 2 overtook Big Apple IV and won by 30 seconds. These GoPro photos capture the first reach action onboard Big Apple IV.
Sat 21st January 2023: VJ class held a picnic day with some casual fun sailing in the morning and an afternoon race. Morning sailing photos courtesy of Greg Fryer and Jason Smid.
Afternoon race photos courtesy of Col Skelton and Jason Smid:
Sat 10th Dec 2022: photos of the finish of Race 2 courtesy of Jason Smid:
Sat 3rd December 2022: GoPro Hero 7 Black action camera photos from Big Apple IV
Sun 27th November 2022 Teralba Regatta:
Photos by Col Skelton:
George and Zoey sailing VJ12 ‘Go Hard 2’
George and Zoey sailing VJ12 ‘Go Hard 2’ spinnaker run
Go Hard 2 (George and Zoey) working upwind to windward and Wildtrack 3 (Lindsay and Harrison) to leeward
Sat 26th November 2022 Teralba Regatta:
Photos by Col Skelton
Big Apple IV at Teralba Regatta 26th Nov 2022
15th October 2022:
15th Oct 2022 Big Apple IV #1 photo courtesy of Col Skelton
15th Oct 2022 Big Apple IV #2 photo courtesy of Col Skelton
26th March 2022:
A light-moderate shifty 7-14 knot ESE
Go Hard 2 at Teralba upwind
Go Hard 2 sailing upwind #2
Go Hard 2 #3
Wildtrack 3 at Teralba
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12th March 2022:
Photos of George Probert’s yellow VJ12 ‘Go Hard 2′ and Lindsay Allan’s blue VJ12 Wildtrack 3’ racing in a light breeze.
6th November 2021:
Photos of George Probert’s ‘Go Hard 2’
13th March 2021:
George Probert’s new big rig with mainsail designed by Michael Carter (aka Flipper) and assembled by Rod Carter of Ullman Newcastle (no relation to Flipper), and jib designed and made also by Rod Carter.
16th Jan 2021: Lindsay and Tom on Wildtrack 2 with big rig
Off-season photos 2020:
George Probert sets up a new jib made by Rod Carter:
Sunday 1st December 2019 Teralba regatta: photos courtesy of Col Skelton of Lindsay Allan and Dave Cleworth sailing ‘Wildtrack 2’: their speed may have been held back a little by the ‘handbrake effect’ of the spinnaker sheet which had wrapped around the centreboard in an earlier capsize 😉
2nd spinnaker run of the day:
Last spinnaker run of the day:
Lindsay Allan and Dave Cleworth sailing ‘Wildtrack 2’: photos by Greg Fryer
2nd spinnaker run:
Last spinnaker run of the day:
George Probert and Liam Lackenby sailing ‘Go Hard 2’: photos by Col Skelton
George Probert and Liam Lackenby sailing ‘Go Hard 2’: photos by Greg Fryer
2nd spinnaker run:
Last spinnaker run:
Sat 23rd November 2019: photos courtesy of Col Skelton
Sat 6th October 2019:
Time for a test sail of Lindsay Allan’s new ‘Wildtrack’, with George Probert along for a sail with his yellow ‘Go Hard 2’
6th Oct 2019 #17 Lindsay Allan’s ‘Wildtrack’ featuring new ‘senior’ VJ rig
6th Oct 2019 #5
Sat 14th September 2019: Lindsay Allan and George Probert spent the day rigging and checking new sails hulls and equipment at Teralba in preparation for sailing commencing soon.
Lindsay’s new grey coloured hull is the first made of the David Cleworth designed Hull 6X and features a rig which is 850mm higher than the previous 2012-13 VJ rig, and carries a masthead spinnaker. The spinnaker and jib have been made by Rod Carter from Ullman Sails Newcastle, and Rod also modified and lengthened Lindsay’s 2014 mainsail by 850mm.
George Probert’s ‘new’ yellow hull is Lindsay’s former 2016 hull ‘Mandarin’ which is built to the wider Cleworth Hull 6C design, and he is using his mast and mainsail from ‘Go Hard Or Go Home’.
Thursday 25th April 2019 (Anzac Day): George Probert and Tom Holmes sail Don Cross’ new VJ ‘Lightning II’ at Teralba:
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Sat 2nd March 2019:
Don Cross and Dylan Wright sailing ‘Lightning II’ with the big blue kite up.
Sat 16th February 2019: photo by Col Skelton
Sat 2nd February 2019: photos by Col Skelton and Scott Lackenby of VJ club championship heat 4. Results: 1. Big Apple IV 2. Go Hard Or Go Home 3. Mandarin
Sat 1st December 2018: video thanks to Scott Lackenby from Teralba Regatta day one VJ race in a shifty 6-12 knot ENE breeze. Results: 1. Go Hard Or Go Home 2. Big Apple IV 3. Mandarin
Sat 27th October 2018: photos thanks to Col Skelton of racing in a 8-14 knot ENE breeze. Results: 1. Mandarin 2. Big Apple IV Retirements: Lightning II, Go Hard Or Go Home
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Combined High Schools Sailing Championships held at Belmont 16ft Sailing Club:
Tuesday 17th April 2018: Beth and Dylan compete in the Invitation Race sailing ‘Mandarin’
Sat 14th April 2018:
Lindsay Allan has kindly lent his VJ ‘Mandarin’ to Beth and Dylan for the Combined High Schools Championships being held at Belmont this coming week. They took the boat out for a training run in a fresh 20-30 knot Westerly at Teralba:
Sat 17th March 2018:
Pointscore race at Teralba in a light/moderate 7-12 knot Easterly. Race result was a very tight finish between Mandarin and Big Apple IV with only a few seconds separating the two boats all afternoon around the course: 1.Big Apple IV 2. Mandarin 3. Go Hard Or Go Home
Photos courtesy of David Ross
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Sat 23rd December 2017: a non-racing fun sailing day at Teralba, with George and Liam taking out Liam’s new Flying Ant for the first time, Greg singlehanded Lindsay Allan’s new VJ Mandarin and later crewed on trapeze with George skippering for some quick spinnaker rides.
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Sat 9th December 2017: rigging area pics from Teralba Sailing Club
Club Championship Ht 4, SSE 7-12 knots race results: 1. Big Apple IV 2. Go Hard Or Go Home 3. Hornet 4. Mandarin 5. Shocking Pink
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Sunday 3rd December 2017:
Teralba Regatta race no 2 placings: 1. Mandarin, 2. Big Apple IV, 3. Go Hard Or Go Home
Photos courtesy of David Ross (please click on image to enlarge)
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Sat 8th April 2017:
Our last race for the 2016-17 season and a nice 8-12 knot noreaster gave some good close racing. On shore pics:
Sat 11th February 2017:
VJ hull designer David Cleworth visits Teralba and test sails Lindsay Allan’s new boat ‘Mandarin’ in 5-8 knots ESE:
Sat 17th December 2016: W/NW 5-10 knots
A new skipper and crew have a sail on ‘Mandarin’: through the week Lindsay Allan fitted a leaning plank to the boat for the skipper and a new white spinnaker is tested. Dean did exceptionally well in his first race using the trapeze and assymetrical kite.
Pics below courtesy of Lindsay Allan: (click on images to enlarge)
Sat 3rd December 2016: S/SE 8-15 knots
Big Apple IV 1st, Hornet 2nd, Mandarin 3rd, Shocking Pink 4th
Pics courtesy of Sue Skelton
Sat 19th November 2016: (pics courtesy of David Ross)
Southerly 10-18 knots
‘Mandarin’ 1st, ‘Big Apple IV’ 2nd, ‘Hornet’ (with stand-in crew Sabine Bowdidge) 3rd
Sat 2nd April 2016:
7th heat of the club championship: 1. Big Apple IV (with temporary crew Kailas), 2. Hornet, 3. Go Hard Or Go Home 4. Weekend Warrior 5. Shocking Pink 6. Addiction
Sat 27th Feb 2016:
Sat 13th Feb 2016:
Sth Lake Macquarie Amateur Sailing Club Regatta:
Results: 1. Big Apple IV, 2. Weekend Warrior, 3. Shocking Pink
Sat 12th Dec 2015:
Don Cross and Dylan Wright sailing Hornet 12th Dec 2015 Teralba
Sat 5th Dec 2015:
Sat 19th Sept 2015:
Photos courtesy of Joy Fairbairn (please click on images to enlarge)
Sat 12th Sept 2015:
Photos courtesy of Robyn Selem
George and Dean on ‘Go Hard Or Go Home’
Greg and Kailas on ‘Big Apple IV’
George and Dean launching
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Sat 29th Aug 2015:
Mick Fairbairn put his new big rig on his boat for the first time and has a test sail with Nic and Dean.
Photos courtesy of George Probert and Joy Fairbairn (click on images to enlarge)
Mick takes the boat out singlehanded:
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Saturday 28th March 2015, last Club Championship race for the 2014-15 season
3 of our boats such as ‘Addiction’ and ‘Shocking Pink’ at left of the photo are sailing with the 1990s lower aspect smaller rig, whilst 7 boats in the fleet like ‘Big Apple IV’ in the centre of the photo have upgraded to the new 2013-14 higher aspect larger sail area VJ rig, and are a considerably faster boat as a result
‘Close Encounters’ at right, ‘Big Apple IV’ at left
‘Close Encounters’ skippered by Nathan Harper
‘Weekend Warrior’
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Saturday 14th March 2015, photos taken by Cameron McDonald:
‘Big Apple IV’ boom vang system
Photos from saturday 17th Jan 2015 courtesy of Mick Fairbairn:
Big Apple IV on spinnaker reach
‘Go Hard Or Go Home’
Maurice Reynaud from Ballina crews with George Probert
The 1970s wooden VJ ‘Dilemma’ sailed by Don Cross, with George and Maurice in the background
‘Big Apple IV’ Greg Fryer and Aislinn Dewit working into the easterly breeze
Oops….capsizing practice with spinnaker
more practice putting the kite down in the water
this time for sure…
‘Dilemma’ in foreground passes ‘Go Hard Or Go Home’
1966-67 Aust Champion ‘Cinder III’ at left with ‘Dilemma’ at right
A wet kite gets hoisted…and wraps itself around the jib
‘Dilemma’ single handed by Don Cross under spinnaker glides towards the finish line
‘Shocking Pink’ comes back to shore
‘Dilemma’ works into the breeze after finishing
‘Big Apple IV’ comes back to shore
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Photos from the Teralba Regatta 29th Nov 2014 courtesy of Mick Fairbairn:
29th Nov 2014: Weekend Warrior, Hornet and Big Apple IV
‘Go Hard Or Go Home’ on the spinnaker board reach
‘Hornet’ reaching under spinnaker 29th Nov 2014
‘Weekend Warrior’
‘Close Encounters’
‘Go Hard Or Go Home’
‘Close Encounters’ gybeing the spinnaker at the wing mark, George in the drink
‘Go Hard Or Go Home’ at Belmont Anniversary Regatta 21st Sept 2014
15th Nov 2014 ‘Weekend Warrior’
15th Nov 2014 #3 ‘Leithal Too’
15th Nov 2014 Big Apple IV
15th Nov 2014 Big Apple IV with medium fullness Mk III mainsail
‘Leithal Too’ at Sth Lakes Regatta 8th Feb 2014
Leithal Too at Sth Lakes #2
Leithal Too
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