Sydney Harbour Week - Saturday 1–Sunday 9 March 2008

Sydney Harbour Week boasts a jam-packed program of events – both afloat and offshore – to celebrate Sydney Harbour.

In conjunction with the Sydney Harbour Week Awards it provides a wide and varied aquatic program to engage and educate the community in caring for and sharing Sydney Harbour.

The sixth Sydney Harbour Week will include the first ever grand prix speed boat event on Sydney Harbour - The Sydney Superboat Grand Prix - on the weekend of March 8 and 9.

You can support one or several of the many events planned for the week which range from paddle races to scuba dives.

The fun-filled schedule is as follows:

Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 March Event Venue
Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta Sydney and Middle Harbour
10.00 – 16.00 Sailors with disABILITIES Rushcutters Bay

Sunday 2 March Event Venue
09.00 Guided Pleasure Dive Chowder Bay
09.00 – 17.00 Clean up Australia Key spots
Sydney Harbour
09.30 – 11.00 Seventh Sydney Harbour
Swim Classic		 Inside Fort Denison and
Farm Cove
10.30 – 17.00 Tall Ships James Craig and
Svanen sail in company		 Outside Sydney Heads

Monday 3 March Event Venue
18.15 – 20.00 Port Jackson Past, Present
and Future Lecture by
Robert Fildes 		ANMM Theatre

Tuesday 4 March Event Venue
18.15 – 20.00 Whaling Lecture by Tony
Smith		 ANMM Theatre

Thursday 6 March Event Venue
18.15 – 20.00 Phil Renouf Memorial Lecture by Sean Langman ANMM Theatre

Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 March Event Venue
10.00 – 18.00 Avante Marine Boat Show Cockle Bay Marina
and Palm Grove

Friday 7 March Event Venue
13.00 – 17.00 Sydney Superboat Pit Paddock open for public viewing White Bay Terminal
18.00 Inaugural Audi Sydney Offshore Newcastle 250NMCat 4 Yacht Race to be confirmed
18.00 – 19.30 Sydney Superboat Grand Prix Meet the Drivers BBQ Wharf 7, Darling Harbour

Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 March Event Venue
09.30 – 17.00 Classic and Wooden Boat Festival ANMM

Saturday 8 March Event Venue
09.00 Audi Sydney Offshore Newcastle Cat 3 to be confirmed
10.00 – 16.00 KIDS AFLOAT Free 75 minute Harbour cruises for any children King Street Wharf
14.00 – 15.00 Sydney Superboats poleing runs on course Between Fort Denison and Shark Island
16.00 – 17.00 Thundercat Celebrity Race for charity Cockle Bay
17.30 – 17.45 Winners Podium Presentation Cockle Bay
18.00 – 18.30 Musto Fashion Parade Harbourside
19.30 – 21.30
Sydney Superboat Grand Prix Seahorse Cocktail Party
Sydney Aquarium
19.30 – 21.00 Superboat Concert presented by WSFM Aqua Shell Cockle Bay

Sunday 9 March Event Venue
09.00 – 13.00 Ocean paddle ‘Bridge to Beach’ canoe and swim Blues Pt to Manly Beach near Aquarium
11.10 – 13.40 Sydney Superboat Grand Prix Offshore Class 1 Powerboats Race Between Fort Denison and Shark Island
17.00 – 17.30 Podium presentation for Superboat winners Cockle Bay

Schedule is correct at 25 January 2008.

For further information visit www.sydneyharbourweek.com
Visit the NSW Maritime website.