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 [...]