Team Australia Challenge has an AC40 simulator in Sydney to give our teams the very best advantage training in this all new foiling yacht design. The AC40 has been named this week the World Sailing Boat of the Year and is it a truly exhilarating and extreme experience.
You can now get the exclusive chance to pilot the AC40 simulator.
We will be drawing one winning entry a month for you and a mate to join our squad athletes in a training session and get onboard this America’s Cup craft.
Click below to enter and go in the monthly random draw.
Come join us at Base Camp for an uber exclusive event. Meet our squad members and see the simulator in action. Sailing Women's Network are hosting a rare opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes at team training and hear from two of our amazing women athletes. Thursday November 30 from 6.30pm in Waterloo, Sydney. Tickets are open to all.
And the annual Sports Review Lunch in Sydney will feature Olivia Price discussing our campaign, plus a raft of sporting highlights and stars from the past year hosted by Tony Squires. It’s a great annual long lunch on Friday December 1, so book in a group to enjoy and support us.
Congratulations to our squad members Mara Stransky, winning Female Sailor of the Year, and Nina Curtis who is on the Australian SailGP winning Team of the Year at the Australian Sailing Awards 2023. A big shout out also to finalists Zoe Thomson and Evie Haseldine also in our squad.
We are starting to profile our squad members so first up meet Mara Stransky and Cole Tapper.
Mara Stransky, Qld, from the RQYS
Mara has this month been named Australian Sailing’s Female Sailor of the year, for the second year running. She is on the Australian Sailing Team campaigning for the Paris Olympics as an ILCA 6 sailor and this year featured highly in the European and World Championships and French Olympic Week. She had similar top ten spots across international competitions from 2019 to 2022 including 4that the Sailing World Cup and first place at Keil Week last year.
Coming through the Queensland Academy of Sport Sailing Program she was part of the Australian Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team. Apart from her ILCA sailing she is a dedicated team sailor crewing 23 international regattas aboard a 50ft performance catamaran plus 10 0ffshore races.
Cole Tapper, NSW from the CYCA
Cole is focused on the 2023 World Youth Match Racing Championships coming up next month, where is currently top ranked and with a goal to win a World Championship for Australia plus better his current World Match Racing Open Ranking of 21 - the highest ranked Australian.
As a school student he won the NSW and Australian Optimist Teams Racing Championships and was first several times in NSW and Australian Schools Teams Racing Championships. In fleet racing Cole has had podiums in the NACRA 15 and 420 class including first places in the New Zealand Nationals and 2018 U17 Junior European Championships.
In Match Racing, he has won the NSW and Australian Youth Championships, the Bolle Youth International and scored 3rd at the World Match Racing Tour US Grand Slam. He gained 9th on the Overall World Match Racing Leaderboard for 2022.
We had a cracking event at RPEYC as we launched our squad thanks to Commodore Caroline Crane and her crew. We would be delighted put on a fun and informative event at your club if there is a strong interest group so
TAC Patrons John Winning and John Bertrand AO with sailor Olivia Price and the Commodore Caroline Crane at RPEYC.
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