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    Current Tactics Mar 2018.1
    REO Sportsboats in action

    There are major advantages to be gained on the race course if you know how the current is affecting the wind you are sailing in.                                                                                                                                          Andrew York explains how to take advantage of it.

    “I got a copy in the Beijing squad, and it was like flicking a switch for me on what current does. It helped a lot for Beijing prep.” – Mal Page

     

    Sports Boats I Feel the Need

    MySailing August-September 2017 Issue | By Andrew York

    Andrew York Looks at the development of sporsboats and how they need to be sailed. Read article

    Image: Sport Sailing Photography.com
    Image: Sport Sailing Photography.com

    Famous names and faces prepare for Airlie Beach Race Week showdown

    Sail-World | By Di Pearson | 8 June 2017

    Several famous boats and equally famous sailors with speed as their focus are ready for a showdown at Airlie Beach Race Week, to be held from 10 to 17 August 2017.

    The Whitsunday Sailing Club’s annual Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing has enticed the likes of Andrew York who is bringing his latest sleek one-design keel boat from Sydney for the first time.

    ‘Yorky’, an accomplished yachtsman with America’s Cups, offshore and one-design triumphs on his resume, is also decorated small boat sailor who comes to Airlie Beach armed with four national and two NSW keel boat titles, won via his VX One, and more recently, with the slightly longer offshoot he developed, the REO 7.2. Read more

    REO Speedwagon with Andrew at helm
    Image: Sport Sailing Photography.com

    Andrew York’s masterclass in sailing fast one-design keelboats

    MySailing| By Di Pearson | 26 April 2017

    It is no accident that Andrew ‘Yorky’ York finds himself entrenched in the upper echelons of sailing – it’s in his DNA – but the son of famous yachting parents Michael ‘Mick’ York OAM and Jeannette York OAM has moved on from his yachting days, instead making a name for himself in sleek, fast one-design keel boat racing.

    Yorky was blooded into sailing early on and followed in Mick’s footsteps when he represented Australia at the America’s Cup –  as a main trimmer and navigator respectively in 1983 (Advance) and aboard Kookaburra in Fremantle in 1985-1987.

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