Australia Day Regatta - January 26, 2023

January 16, 2023

The 187th Australia Day Regatta – the oldest continuously-run annual sailing event in the world – will be conducted again on Australia Day, January 26, 2023.

As you know, the regatta is not one single event, east of the Sydney Harbour Bridge - but a plethora of races and events involving some 600 vessels ranging from offshore racing yachts to beach dinghies and radio-controlled yachts - around the harbour and up and down the NSW Coast.

See the 2023 Australia Day Regatta Program

The Regatta Organising Committee very much appreciates your continued support, because the regatta is less a sailing race than a celebration of Australian life – freedom, equality and opportunity.

Getting as many boats out on the water as possible sends an important demonstration to the powers-that-be – not least our politicians and sporting administrators - that sailors and sailing represent a significant and growing constituency. It is also a means of demonstrating to your local community that sailing, is a sport for all for people of all ages and abilities – a sport where anyone from any walk of life can get involved.

Skippers who win their division in an Australia Day Regatta race, will be invited to a reception at the Sydney Town Hall for a presentation of Trophies and medallions.