This week we have upcoming Melbourne and Sydney major events, a moving documentary portrait of Jon Wilson, more orca trouble, Viking sailing, Easter Island good news and the happy by-product of offshore wind farms.

“We had a great three days of Classic Yacht racing on Sydney Harbour. We seem to have established a tradition of sailors in beautiful boats enjoying the company of others enjoying the same thing. I’m already looking forward to the next one.”

This week’s sailing stories from around the web and the world.

A quick calculation shows that just over four percent of the fleet are of some sort of wooden construction.

The Regatta courses took participants to Manly for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday races. Each day, with a lot of east in the breeze and big tides, decisions taken on which side of the harbour to work shaped the results and helped a lot of others decide what they will do next time.

The Halvorsen brothers Magnus and Trygve competed in most of the Sydney Hobart Races from 1946 to 1965 in their own designed and built boats, and won the event on handicap five times with Solveig, Anitra V and Freya.