{"id":4766,"date":"2026-04-27T01:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:01:17","slug":"newcastle-port-stephens-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle &#038; Port Stephens Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Passion XI is now safely back on its mooring at Greenwich after a campaign in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncyc.net.au\/offshore-racing\/newcastle-portstephens-race\/\"><strong>Newcastle to Port Stephens Race 12 April<\/strong><\/a>  and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailportstephens.com.au\/commodores-cup\/\">Sail Port Stephens Commodores Cup 13-18 April<\/a> .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an early start the delivery motor\/sail from Sydney Harbour to Port Newcastle on 10th April was uneventful with 5-8 knot N to NE breeze on the nose and the mainsail was set to stabilise the boat. The next day was spent at the Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club marina getting Passion XI in tip top shape for the coming events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Departing-Sydney-Early-Morning_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Departing-Sydney-Early-Morning_800.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Departing-Sydney-Early-Morning_800-300x128.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Departing-Sydney-Early-Morning_800-150x64.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Departing-Sydney-Early-Morning_800-768x328.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>leaving Sydney Harbour Newcastle bound at sun up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 42 boats in the Newcastle to Port Stephens race and it was a cracker with a 20-30 knot SW breeze driving the yachts along the relatively protected Stockton Bight at a record pace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first yacht on scratch and handicap by a big margin was the 30 ft Thompson 920 Road Runner which planed its way along the 26nm course from Newcastle Harbour to the finish off Fingal Light in just 101 minutes averaging 15.5 knots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passion sailed conservatively with full main and older fuller jib averaging 10 knots to finish 13th on scratch and 24th on handicap. Many boats provided excitement for their crews and other participants with asymmetric and code zero sails getting a flogging in the strengthening gusty breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full results are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/app.sailsys.com.au\/club\/22\/results\/series\/5500\/races\/40206?handicap=5&amp;boat=11939\">Here<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passion XI is now safely back on its mooring at Greenwich after a campaign in the Newcastle to Port Stephens Race 12 April and Sail Port Stephens Commodores Cup 13-18 April . After an early start the delivery motor\/sail from Sydney Harbour to Port Newcastle on 10th April was uneventful with 5-8 knot N to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}