Colac Yacht Club will launch its season tomorrow, but there won’t be a boat in sight. This weekend’s Camperdown Classic angling competition at Lake Bullen Merri has forced the club to have its launch at its Hamilton Street clubrooms at 4pm. The club will sail its summer pennant season on [...]

Former Colac yachtsman Paul McKenzie said he was disappointed he only got to sail for two days of a five-day regatta in Germany. McKenzie and team-mate Philip Toth finished 29th in the star class at the ISAF Sailing World Cup event at Kiel. McKenzie and Toth are the [...]

Drought could force Colac sailors to abandon their second sailing base. Colac Yacht Club has sailed on Camperdown’s Lake Bullen Merri since falling water levels forced it off Lake Colac in the 2005-06 season. Club officials will decide later this year whether they will keep using Lake Bullen [...]

Former Colac resident Paul McKenzie is disappointed a jury disqualified the yacht he sailed in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. McKenzie, who lives in France, was on Geelong yacht Shogun which faced disqualification for bumping fellow contender Ragamuffin. “We had a bump at the start,” he said. [...]

A Hoppers Crossing couple have made a “long-term commitment” to Colac Yacht Club.Phillip and Leah Hitchen are storing their yacht at the club and will make the hour-and-a-half long drive to Colac and then the 30-minute drive to Camperdown’s Lake Bullen Merri every weekend during the club’s pennant season.The Hitchens chose Colac’s club for its [...]

Colac Yacht Club will open its season next week with a “come try day” for potential members.The event is at Camperdown’s Lake Bullen Merri on October 4.Commodore Steve Cartwright said the club welcomed beginners and people who had sailed before to take part.“Sailing is available to both males and females of all age groups and [...]

Daryl Langdon has helped keep Colac Yacht Club afloat through trying years of drought.Langdon joined the club in the season of 1996 and 1997 and has been on its committee since 1998.He has been commodore for five years in total and is vice commodore this year.“Most of the time I’ve been commodore we haven’t had [...]

It could be 10 years before Colac Yacht Club returns to sail on drought-stricken Lake Colac. But the club promises to remain active, visiting other lakes in the district. Committee member David Parker said the club had sailed on Camperdown’s Lake Bullen Merri since Lake Colac became too low [...]