Nominations are now open for the Ocean Racer of the Year Awards for 2024! These awards celebrate our successful and inspirational yachts men and women.
The presentation of the Ocean Racer of the Year Awards will be held on Thursday 6 March 2025, in conjunction with the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Prize-giving.
The nomination form can be found by clicking the button below.
The complete list of categories is as follows:
- Ocean Racing Yachtsperson of the Year – is the most prestigious of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s awards and is presented to the leader of an Australian Ocean Racing campaign who has excelled above others during the qualification period.
- Female Ocean Racer of the Year – introduced in 2023 to recognise the success of a female ocean racer in any crew role and their contribution to an offshore racing program.
- Ocean Navigator of the Year – instituted in 2008 to recognise the integral role that navigators play in the successful campaign of a yacht.
- Ocean Veteran of the Year – awarded to a stalwart of the sport, who, has either been campaigning for a number of years, or who has returned to offshore racing after a brief hiatus from the sport of sailing.
- Ocean Rookie of the Year – awarded to a competitor that, whilst maybe no foreigner to crewing or participating in ocean racing, has for the first time campaigned their own boat within the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s prestigious Blue Water Sailing Program.
- Double Handed Ocean Racers of the Year – awarded to two competitors that have excelled within the growing double handed class.
- Sally Gordon Memorial Trophy for the Ocean Crew Person of the Year – an award which recognises a non-professional crew member that contributes significantly to your program, and can be a crew member who greatly assists in the preparation of the boat prior or post racing, or assists in completing paperwork and other association race documentation.
- Youth Ocean Racer of the Year – a sailor under the age of 25 that has exhibited strong commitment to and enthusiasm for offshore sailing
Please note all nominations should be in respect of performances and achievements during the period 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 with nominations due 26 February 2025.
