New in May 2025....
UNCLE FRED's Women's team take out the 2025 Historical 10-ft skiff Australian Championship. Full details on the News Page
....and from April......
The Videos Page has some footage from the final race of the season 2024-25 for the Historical 18-footer replicas
...and from 2024....
The revised video on THE LEGENDARY BOATBUILDER JOE DONNELLY is now up on the Videos Page
Some footage from the 10-footer Championships in May is now up on the Videos Page
There was close racing in the Historical 10-Foot Skiffs Australian Championships on May 4-6 at Teralba on Lake Macquarie. Details and full results on the News Page
Joe Donnelly's Plaque has been installed, see more on the News Page
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The Australian Historical Sailing Skiff Associationwas established in 1990 by a group of skiff enthusiasts. The objects of the Association "shall be to acquire, restore, build replicas of, sail, race, display and promote historical Australian skiffs and other open boats which the Association considers worthy of promotion".
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Since then the major activity of the Association (usually abbreviated to AHSSA) has been racing fleets of replicas, first with a fleet of 10-footers and since 1995 with a fleet of 18-footers. Currently the AHSSA has an active fleet of 10-footers racing in Brisbane, a less active fleet occasionally racing on Lake Macquarie NSW and a fleet of 18-footer replicas racing every Summer Saturday out of the Sydney Flying Squadron. The AHSSA is the recognised Class Association for historical skiffs with Australian Sailing.
This is a growing site and will be regularly added to.
For a look into the history of the 18-footers, 10-footers and other Australian open boat classes, see our companion site www.openboat.com.au
This is a growing site and will be regularly added to.
For a look into the history of the 18-footers, 10-footers and other Australian open boat classes, see our companion site www.openboat.com.au