Junior surf programs in Great Ocean Road towns are thriving this summer with an increase in participants. Lorne Surf Lifesaving Club has 370 children in its nippers program for the 2009-10 season, an increase of 25 per cent since the 2008-09 season. Nippers co-ordinator Ian Stewart said the [...]

Apollo Bay’s Fiona Waddington will be one of a handful of people to compete in an adventure race at this weekend’s Great Ocean Sports Festival. Waddington will compete in the Otway Adventure Race, which includes a 12-kilometre surf ski paddle, nine-kilometre coastal run, 35-kilometre mountain bike ride and two-kilometre run to the [...]

Apollo Bay Surf Lifesaving Club will host a western regional carnival for the first time in the club’s history this weekend. Club president Christopher Oakes said clubs from as far as Portland would come to compete at the carnival. “Portland, Port Fairy, Port Campbell, Apollo Bay, Wye River, Kennett River [...]

Colac district surf lifesavers have won silver medals at world championships overseas. Wye River club members Michael Barrand, Lisa Castle, Joel Craddock and Courtney Buchanan-Huhn took on some of the best surf lifesavers in the world, and went close to being crowned world number one. The quartet finished second in the inflatable rescue boat mass [...]

Wye River lifesavers fly to Germany tomorrow night to compete in world championships. Wye River Surf Lifesaving Club captain Lisa Castle said a five-man team would compete in the inflatable rescue boat event at Rescue 2008-the World Lifesaving Championships.Michael Barrand, Joel Craddock and Courtney Buchanan-Huhn are travelling with Ms Castle and the team will meet [...]

Colac rescue boat history-maker Fleur Griffiths has achieved another first for Lorne surf lifesaving. The teenage lifesaving sensation was a part of a Lorne female crew that made it to the semi-final stage of the tube event at the Australian Inflatable Rescue Boat Championships in southern New South Wales. The [...]

Lorne surf lifesavers will attempt to dethrone the powerful clubs from Queensland and New South Wales in this year’s National Inflatable Rescue Boat Championships. Club captain Lincoln Wymer and driver Scot Kerr loom as the main hope for Lorne at the championships, starting tomorrow.  Lorne Surf Lifesaving Club has sent four boys’ [...]

A Colac surfboat racer has achieved a first for Lorne’s women surf boat racing. Teenager Fleur Griffiths was a part of a Lorne lifesaving team that won a bronze medal in the female mass rescue event at the Victorian Inflatable Rescue Boat State Championships. It is the first time a [...]

Colac district surfboat racer James Carew says his Lorne crew can match it with the big clubs at this weekend’s state championships. Carew and his Lorne Surf Lifesaving team-mates will compete in the Victorian Inflatable Rescue Boat state championships at Lorne on Sunday. Lorne will host the state titles [...]