THE FAIRWAY CHALLENGE 2010

The Fairway Challenge is an 80nm Yacht Race that incorporates both bay and open ocean sailing. The 2010 race will be the 7th time this popular event has been staged by the Moreton Bay Yacht Club.  

It is now also a very useful preparatory race for the Brisbane to Gladstone that now requires that all boats entering have to have completed two 50nm races in the previous 6 months before the race.

The course of the Fairway Challenge is very nearly the same as the first stage of the Brisbane to Gladstone course. Many a Brisbane to Gladstone race has been won or lost in Moreton Bay and the Fairway Challenge is a great opportunity for teams to familiarise themselves with the course before Easter.

The event starts to the East of the Redcliffe Peninsula and, after 2 short spectacle legs along the foreshore, follows a course to the NW Fairway mark involving minimal use of the major shipping channels.

Thanks to generous sponsors Voyager Gaming Technologies and Morgans Seafoods, there are over $3,000 worth of prices with a $1,000 cash price for the winner.  A number of classes are offered, including Performance Handicap, IRC, Multihull and Short Handed.

As usual the social side of it will be well catered for, boat berths will be available, complete with a complementary ‘slab’ of beer for each boat as they moor at the club.  For those that need “off-boat” accommodation there is now a number of options
including the Scarborough Beach Resort (ph 1300 859 649), the cabins at the Scarborough Holiday Village, (ph 07 3203 8864) and B&B’s.